Tens of thousands of people may be at increased risk of dying early from heart attacks and strokes by misusing anabolic steroids, according to doctors. The British Cardiovascular Society gave the warning amid concern steroids are now being taken by hundreds of thousands of people. Public health experts say men in their teens and 20s […]
Whenever YouTuber Evan Edinger meets somebody new he says he always get asked: “How much money do you make?” “I’m open to telling [people] a rough estimate. Enough to pay rent and to have a takeaway once in a while. It’s not too bad,” he said. In a one-off vlog he has decided to explain […]
Herbert and Audrey Goodine say goodbye for the first time in 73 years An elderly Canadian couple is heartbroken after learning that they will be separated for the first time in seven decades a week before Christmas. Herbert Goodine, 91, was told he must leave the long-term care facility where he lives with his wife […]
Finding a decent job can be hard. Now try finding your life’s purpose. Most of us go from aspiring astronaut to aspiring rock star to actual cashier and then an endless series of bland gigs. It’s time to change your future. The Japanese concept of ikigai can help you zero in on the thing (or […]
From time to time, we all have trouble remembering things. But for people with severe ailments like dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease, the severity of their memory problems can be life-altering. For the last few years, scientists have been delving into the way electrical impulses might be able to improve recollection in people with memory problems, […]
Lego House, Billund, Denmark by BIG Bold and expressive (Credit: Alamy) One familiar way of dismissing contemporary architecture is to say that this or that new building ‘looks like Lego’. Lego’s famous interlocking plastic bricks first went on sale in 1949 just as Modernist architecture, derived from the Bauhaus, went truly global and four-square, Cubist-like […]
In 1961, the Soviet Union tested a nuclear bomb so powerful that it would have been too big to use in war. And it had far-reaching effects of a very different kind. On the morning of 30 October 1961, a Soviet Tu-95 bomber took off from Olenya airfield in the Kola Peninsula in […]
Train carriages have plummeted on to a motorway in Washington state, causing “multiple” fatalities, police say. The train derailed and the carriages fell on to the I-5 highway below. Images from the scene show emergency services treating people on the ground. It appears that at least four carriages have left the track; one of them […]
“I know I’m the king when I jump in the ring.” The fighter’s swagger still courses through Wally Carr. One of Australia’s best Aboriginal boxers, Carr enjoyed a stellar career that spanned 100 professional bouts over 15 years, but later he became a drug-dependent alcoholic who was forced to sleep in abandoned houses. “I parade, […]
Robin was 13 when he found out he was adopted. Later he was told he had been abandoned – left in a box on London’s Oxford Street. Now 74, he has spent most of his life wondering who left him and why. But thanks to DNA, and the dogged detective work of one of his […]