Endurance swimmer Diana Nyad has become the first person to swim from Cuba to the US without a shark cage. After about 53 hours’ non-stop swimming, the 64-year-old American reached Key West, Florida, escorted by boats and her team of 35 people. Ms Nyad, who left a Havana yacht club early on Saturday, had vowed this would be her last attempt to cross the 110-mile (177km) wide Florida Straits. Her […]
Bowed to the royal following private audience with her and her husband It runs counter to centuries of Catholic tradition Comes after he posed for a selfie with teenage pilgrims in St Peter’s Basilica Pope Francis is already closing in on three million Twitter followers The Pope has once again shown his willingness to break with tradition by bowing to Muslim royal Queen Rania of Jordan. As leader of the […]
Say what you will about Arnold– he’s always spoken his mind, whether people can handle it or not. Remember the 1977 interview with Oui magazine? I can’t print it here, man. Crazy, crazy stuff. The guy’s an animal. Schwarzenegger learned early on that if you’re beautiful, charismatic and powerful– you can say or do just about anything, with a big cheesy smile on your face. All that aside, he’s an icon who put […]
Jamie Eagle, 20, and Louid Davies, 25, from Bridgend, south Wales Jamie used to be a boy, Louis used to be a girl Both are undergoing gender reassignment procedures They will wait until then to marry and be intimate with each other Jamie says she can’t go out along as she is often followed or shouted at by people in passing cars. Internet trolls plague her, too, and she has […]
Hanns Alexander fled Germany shortly before Kristallnacht He joined the British Army and part of a team hunting senior Nazis Mr Alexander helped capture Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoss A German-born Jewish refugee who served in the British Army during World War II has been unveiled as one of the leading investigators responsible for the capture of one of the worst Nazi criminals of the Holocaust. Throughout his […]
Photographs of Queen Elizabeth as a child are released to celebrate the arrival of Prince George The previously unseen images show the Queen riding a pony, sleeping in her cot and smiling for the camera The year is 1928 and a young girl poses for her father’s camera from the comfort of her wicker pram…with a smile that is strangely familiar. And if you can’t quite put a […]
Delhi Police has arrested Abdul Karim Tunda alias Abdul Quddooss, one of India’s top 20 wanted terrorists, and mastermind of over 40 bombings in the country, from Indo-Nepal border 70-year-old Tunda, an expert bomb maker of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba, was arrested yesterday at around 3 PM from the Banwasa-Mehendarnagar border with Nepal, and brought to Delhi. Tunda was one of 20 terrorists India had demanded the Pakistani government to hand […]
A Romanian princess and her husband are scheduled to appear in court Friday after they were arrested in an alleged cockfighting ring in Oregon. John Wesley Walker and his wife, Princess Irina Walker, the third daughter of Romania’s exiled King Michael I, are among six people charged with operating an illegal gambling business, the Justice Department said in a statement. Those six are also charged, along with 12 others, with […]
The father of two Southern California children who went missing after their mother was killed pleaded Tuesday for their suspected abductor to release his daughter. A massive manhunt is under way for James DiMaggio, whom law enforcement authorities describe as a friend of the mother, Christina Anderson. The whereabouts of Anderson’s children, Hannah, 16, and Ethan, 8, are unknown. Investigators believe they may be with DiMaggio, 40, the owner and […]
Bodies of Bess Rosenzweig, 22, and Clare Clube found in mountain ranges Their plane to Nairobi crashed in Aberdare National Park on July 25 Friends describe the pair as adventurous and friendly free spirits A young volunteer who dedicated her life to helping African children has died in a Kenyan plane crash alongside her mother. The bodies of Bess Rosenzweig, 22, and her mother Clare Clube were found in mountain […]
