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
A pharmacist has warned Brits not to overlook changes to their skin – because they could be vital clues to a life-threatening condition.
From a subtle discolouration to a change in texture or feel, skin can serve as a silent messenger that be the first signs of an underlying health problem.
While you may think a rash is harmless, it could actually be life-threatening – this is why it’s important to be able to identify serious changes and distinguish between
Carrie first made headlines when she won the Bodley Head Financial Times literary award in 2020 – a prestigious essay competition with a £1,000 prize. She went on to host writing workshops online
Carrie Jade Williams is an English woman in her 30s who claimed to have Huntington’s disease, a rare and terminal neurological condition.
She arrived in Cahersiveen, County Kerry, in 2019 rather out of the blue and soon befriended a woman
The game was already won when the puck slid to Cody Hodgson for the tap-in.
The Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League, the Nashville Predators’ top minor league affiliate, had a comfortable 3-0 lead over the Chicago Wolves. On a historic win streak — they were en route to their 18th consecutive victory — the Admirals juggled their lines.
Off of a rush chance in the final minute, Predators prospect Juuso Pärssinen pulled off a slick toe-drag deke and
As she poses jubilantly for a photograph at Everest Base Camp, Corinne Turnbull, 51, looks the picture of fitness.
Conquering the world’s highest mountain is a challenge few of us would contemplate. But in Corinne’s case, that smile of triumph was especially hard-won – as just over a decade earlier, shortly before her 40th birthday, she was diagnosed with the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis.
I recently wrote in this newspaper about my own shock at discovering I had the condition, which
Adele Roberts has revealed her ‘beautiful’ mother Jackie Roberts passed away aged 61 earlier this month, in an emotional post shared on Sunday.
The Dancing On Ice star, 44, shared the heartbreaking news that ‘her hero’ Jackie had died on 4 January followed by a funeral last week on Instagram following her ’emotional’ performance on the ITV skating show earlier in the evening.
The Radio 1 presenter explained she didn’t want to share the news of her mother’s passing until
Former Instagram travel blogger Jessica Stein has become a virtual housebound recluse after her pleas for cash to fund treatment for a serious illness were questioned and a GoFundMe appeal was dramatically halted.
At the peak of her popularity in the late 2010s, Ms Stein’s Tuula Vintage travel blog had three million followers on Instagram and Facebook – with fans including Liz Hurley tracking her jet-setting adventures around the world.
But the dream lifestyle updates with her partner Patrick Cooper
Each morning after breakfast, Scott Broadbent takes a plastic bottle from the refrigerator in his home in Alameda, Calif., pops the top, and drinks the contents, 2.5 ounces of milky liquid. “It has sort of a pineapple creamy flavor,” he says. “It’s really not bad.”
The bottle might contain ketone ester, a supplement meant to help the body burn fat instead of carbohydrates. Researchers are now testing whether it might also slow the aging process. Or Broadbent might instead be
Being sued by your Airbnb guests because they couldn’t stand to be around a disabled person sounds too cruel to be real.
However, this is exactly what one woman, Carrie Jade Williams, an Englishwoman based in Ireland, claimed had happened to her last year.
In a video that exploded on social media, Carrie, who said she had been diagnosed with the terminal illness Huntington’s Disease, said her Airbnb guests had demanded a refund and were attempting to sue her for
Former England manager Terry Venables has died at the age of 80 following a long battle with illness.
Venables masterminded England’s memorable run to the semi-finals of Euro ’96 after a successful club career as a player and then as a coach.
He is survived by his wife of 32 years Yvette. A statement from the Venables family read: ‘We are totally devastated by the loss of a wonderful husband and father who passed away peacefully yesterday [Saturday] after a
