He made history this month when he smashed a world chess marathon record by playing for 60 hours straight, but Tunde Onakoya’s story is even more extraordinary than people realise.
The 29-year-old Nigerian chess whizz has got tongues wagging in his home nation as well as around the world after he played the tactical board game for a whopping 60 hours in New York’s Times Square.
Fans and stars alike – including singers Davido and Adekunle Gold – turned out
Staffel 8 von Verpatzt ist Dr. Terry Dubrowist bislang „Favorit“, obwohl es auf der Leinwand einige „unmögliche“ Szenarien gibt.
„Die Produzenten haben die Show verändert. Es ist viel lustiger, aber es fließen auch viel mehr Tränen“, sagte er Uns wöchentlich exklusiv während der Werbung für die kommenden Episoden. „Das war die gruseligste Saison. Ich dachte eigentlich, dass wir viel mehr Komplikationen haben würden, als wir hatten.“
Dubrow, 64, erklärte, dass er und Dr. Paul Nassif „nehmen sich diese unmöglichen
Coming to the UK: Ex-Federal Reserve boss Ben Bernanke
The Bank of England has drafted in the ex-head of the US Federal Reserve to review how it draws up economic forecasts.
Ben Bernanke, who ran the US central bank from 2006 to 2014, will look at how staff at Threadneedle Street put together their predictions.
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News is, by definition, hard to predict. For most of this year, many economists had been expecting a recession—some declared it all but a certainty—but, on Wednesday, the Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell revealed that his staff is no longer forecasting a prolonged downturn. A day later, U.S. growth data for the second quarter of 2023 came in at an unexpectedly strong annual rate of 2.4 per cent. Consumer confidence is rebounding. “In hopeful moment, storm clouds over Biden economy
Bethenny Frankel stands by her opinion of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
“Remember when I was completely trolled, harassed and canceled for saying that Meghan and Harry could f—k up a wet dream? How could someone botch something so badly?” Frankel, 52, said in a TikTok on Tuesday, July 25. “I almost feel badly, like, I think I do feel badly, because I can’t imagine having so much at your fingertips and letting it all slip away because of
Dr. Terry Dubrow might need to check his definition of “botched.”
The plastic surgeon, who recently purchased a $16.1 million Beverly Hills mansion with wife Heather, claims the property in need of some serious TLC.
However, the Dubrow’s new mansion not only has five bedrooms and four bathrooms, it also boasts skyline views of Los Angeles, a private tennis court, a pool and a hot tub.
The hilltop property, which was built in a French Normandy-style in 1946, is set
The Dubrows are building their next dream house.
Heather and Dr. Terry Dubrow have recently purchased a Beverly Hills estate for $16.1 million after selling their Orange County mega-mansion — appropriately dubbed “Château Dubrow” — for a record-breaking $55 million last fall.
According to Entertainment Tonight, the 9,000-square-foot pad sits on 8.2 acres and was previously owned by late filmmaker Dino De Laurentiis.
Despite the hilltop home’s hefty price tag, the “Real Housewives of Orange County” stars reportedly snagged the
OSCE Secretary General Helga Schmid gave an order in Vienna on the evening of Feb. 24 to evacuate international staff from Ukraine and instructed her chief monitor there to “facilitate the relocation of national mission members within the country where possible and if requested,” according to a statement delivered by Schmid to a special meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna on Feb. 27.
But for the hundreds of Ukrainian OSCE staffers, relocation wasn’t an option — and even
In April 2014, Clayton Lockett writhed in visible pain as the state of Oklahoma executed him with an injection of three drugs. The execution, a “bloody mess,” the prison warden said at the time, took 43 minutes. The state postponed the execution of Charles Warner, also scheduled for that night, only to kill him less than nine months later. His death came more quickly, but not without pain: “My body is on fire,” he said after being injected with the
Dr. Funnyman took out a pair of forceps and in a matter of seconds had cut the hair tourniquet from the skin bridge. “I’m amazing!” he said. I was overcome with gratitude and relief. I took a photo of the offending hair to memorialize my liberation. Dr. Funnyman told me that the skin bridge had been strangled by the hair to such an extent that it would probably soon separate into two pieces hanging off the penis. If this happened,
