A 101-year-old Chinese lady has grown “devil” horns from her forehead, mystifying doctors and her family. Grandmother Zhang Ruifang of Linlou village, Henan province first developed the 2.4 inch long protrusion last year which has formed a bizarre likeness to a goat’s horn. Her youngest of six sons, Zhang Guozheng, 60, said the condition began [...]
The Mayor’s St Patrick’s Day Parade and Festival with Lebara Mobile will take place on Sunday 14 March 2010, and is likely to be one of London’s liveliest celebrations of the year. Over 100,000 people attended the event last year. The parade – a colourful array of floats, marching bands and groups representing the Irish [...]
Need to please? Agree when you really disagree? Constantly worried about what others think? You’re probably an approval addict and Steve Siebold disapproves. That’s because the need-to-please disease is the most destructive and debilitating of all addictions. “It paralyzes people and holds them back from fulfilling their potential. They spend their entire lives desperately trying [...]
In Lifeclass this week, Lesley Garner advises a reader on whether or not she should go public with news of an affair that occurred 30 years ago. I am writing because I have just finished reading your book, Life Lessons, and it has helped me to acknowledge that I may have a responsibility to face. [...]
Parents are to be given the power to demand a change to their secondary school leadership by voting in a ballot, it was announced today. Education authorities would then have to bring in an accredited provider with a track record of successfully operating schools elsewhere. Gordon Brown and Schools Secretary Ed Balls announced the first [...]
Joanne St Clair had just started the trip of a lifetime when she met homeless Daniel and turned her life upside-down for love. At the age of 30 Joanne St Clair had spent years doing the “sensible” thing – getting a good job and buying her own home. But after she decided to take a [...]
In your mid-30s and lost that loving feeling, ladies? It seems you are not alone. A sex survey has found that more than one in four women aged 35 and over “never” have sex. The findings, out today, reveal that for 28% of these women, making love is a distant memory. Even for those who [...]
When little Xavier King took his first faltering steps, his parents were both thrilled and amazed – he was only six months old. The baby prodigy can now walk more than six feet without any support. It’s a feat most one-year-olds struggle with and that child development experts say is “extremely uncommon”. Mum Mary, 30, [...]
Female students at Cambridge University have been ordered to curb late night noisy sex. Undergraduates at women only Newnham College were warned in a misspelled email to be “discrete” because of the thin bedroom walls. One classics student said: “I cringed. I thought it must refer to me.” Another admitted: “Once I thought I was [...]
Robert del Naja and Grant Marshall discuss splits, reconciliation and the rebirth of their band. Despite being one of the most revered British bands in recent times, Massive Attack have spent a good deal of their 21-year career falling out with each other. “Even before we actually became Massive Attack, in 1986, when we were [...]
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