Sixty years ago, on October 30, 1960, Diego Armando Maradona was born in Lanus near Buenos Aires. Although younger by a generation than Pele, he is as serious as the Brazilian contender for the title of the best footballer in the world.more
Multiple Olympic gold-medallist and British icon Sir Mo Farah is reportedly set to be a campmate on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!. According to The Sun, the long-distance runner is set to be paid a fee of around £300,000 which could make him the best-paid star on this year’s series.more
The Polish Post commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain and the Army of General Władysław Anders with the stamp "Anders' Army - Trail of Hope". This is the third publication dedicated to soldiers of General Anders.more
A lucky UK ticket-holder has scooped a £79 million EuroMillions jackpot, the National Lottery has said. Players have been urged to check their tickets after the news was announced on Tuesday evening.more
Despite now having a reported net worth of over $400 million, NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal says he used to be terrible with money. But he says, he got some good money advice early on from his mentor and former Lakers star Magic Johnson.more
Football compiled a ranking of players’ sprint speeds in the 2019-2020 UEFA Champions League based on UEFA statistics. Kylian Mbappe ranked first with a maximum instantaneous speed of 33.98 kilometers per hour, and all the top ten players on the list had a maximum sprint speed of more than 33 kilometers per hour.more
Scientists have gathered some of the most compelling evidence yet for the existence of water on the moon – and it may be relatively accessible. The discovery has implications for future missions to the moon and deeper space exploration.more
The research, carried out by cookware store Oliver’s Kitchen, found eight out of 10 people admitted to never cleaning their microwaves – which is particularly gross considering how often food spills over or soup spits as it’s heating up.more
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not reply to the letter in which footballer Marcus Rashford personally asked him to join his task force to fight malnutrition of children from the poorest families, Sky News revealed.more
A 99-year-old Spanish grandmother who has beaten Covid-19, is glad to be back watching her favourite TV show and playing computer games with her five-year-old great-grandson.
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In what most people would consider a lucrative mistake, a Detroit-area man who accidentally bought an extra lottery ticket has won two $1 million jackpots.more
One of the oldest mansions in Mayfair is up for sale for £54.5 million making it the most expensive property to come on the open market in London since lockdown.more
A giant aluminium globe-shaped bar, complete with five brass barstools, will be offered for sale by a Maryland auctioneer – as the bar from “Hitler’s yacht”.more
The Royal Mint has no plans to make new 2p or £2 coins for the next 10 years. A coin mountain lies in storage as demand has dropped, in contrast to banknotes.more
A London law firm is looking to recruit a dog walker on a salary of up to £30,000 a year. The somewhat unusual ‘Private Assistant and Dog Walker’ role is currently being advertised on behalf of Joseph Hage Aaronson, a litigation specialist with offices in Holborn.more
Cities are in part defined by their bridges and crossings. They are meant to be the jewels along their rivers, provide vital transport links and beautiful vantage points of a city.more
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts has blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and successfully reached orbit, footage broadcast by Russia's space agency Roscosmos showed.more
Huge luck for a lottery player from Baden-Württemberg: The woman won the highest win so far in the 6aus49 drawing. More than 42 million will soon land in their account.more
An 11-year-old boy who wrote a letter to his idol Jurgen Klopp about his anxiety over starting secondary school was staggered when the Liverpool boss sent him a personal letter back.more
More people are being born without wisdom teeth and an extra artery in their arm as a result of a human "microevolution" in recent years, a study has found.more
Two American economists won the Nobel Prize on Monday for improving the theory of how auctions work and inventing new and better auction formats that are now woven into many parts of the economy, including one that revolutionized the telecom industry.more
