A ferocious storm over Argentina two years ago produced the world’s largest hailstone, about the size of a football, scientists report. Hail over the heavily populated city of Villa Carlos Paz, Córdoba Province, Argentina in 2018 likely broke the record for the largest hailstone, US researchers claim. The biggest stone in the storm measured up to … Read more
Nicole Kidman talks about love and balancing her work and family life in the May issue of WSJ. Magazine. The Australian beauty has been married to Keith Urban for almost 14 years and the 52-year-old Oscar winner fondly remembers the moment they fell in love. ‘He’s pretty much the flip side of neurotic.’ Kidman gushes … Read more
The moment Julie Goodwin ‘fell apart’: MasterChef winner reveals the brutal reality of her mental breakdown – and how she took her life back after six weeks in a psychiatric ward By Chloe-lee Longhetti For Daily Mail Australia Published: 23:52 BST, 22 April 2020 | Updated: 00:10 BST, 23 April 2020 Julie Goodwin has spoken … Read more
Election jitters sent economy into reverse: Output fell 3% in November, latest figures show By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 13 January 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 13 January 2020 The economy slammed into reverse ahead of the General Election as political uncertainty hammered business. Output fell by 0.3 per cent … Read more
Couple dubbed the ‘modern day Romeo and Juliet’ reveal how they fell in ‘love at first sight’ after laying eyes on each other from their balconies during a lockdown concert in Verona Michele D’Alpaos, 38, saw Paola Agnelli, 39, when they were on their balconies Couple have vowed not to meet each other until after … Read more
For my husband’s 50th birthday I booked an apartment via Booking.com for a holiday at Liverpool’s docks. He wanted to see all The Beatles memorabilia and we had tickets to see the tribute band. Now coronavirus means we have been told not to travel unless it is essential. I asked the apartment’s owner if I … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK RADICAL WORDSWORTH by Jonathan Bate (William Collins, £25, 608 pp) The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge spent Christmas Day 1806 with his close friend William Wordsworth, together with Wordsworth’s wife Mary, her sister Sara Hutchinson and Wordsworth’s own sister, Dorothy. Two days later, Coleridge bolted from the house. Taking refuge in the … Read more
A five-month-old baby boy has died after his parents put out a plea for a life-saving partial liver transplant from a living donor. Marcus Albers was born in October 2018 with an extremely rare genetic disease that changes the way cells in the body communicate and attacks the liver, reported the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Doctors … Read more
‘I was always judging myself!’ Model Nikki Phillips reveals she suffered from body dysmorphia but grew to ‘fall in love with her body’ after giving birth By Shive Prema For Daily Mail Australia Published: 14:54 GMT, 8 March 2020 | Updated: 20:19 GMT, 8 March 2020 Model Nikki Phillips has revealed she suffered from body … Read more
Despite our best efforts to prove otherwise, the coronavirus is making some of us consider that we might, in fact, be old. At a party last week for the launch of therapist Julia Samuel’s book This Too Shall Pass (a title that hopefully will apply to Covid- 19 as well as the difficult life transitions … Read more