Ernestine Shepherd , the world’s oldest female bodybuilder, wakes up every day at 02:30 a.m. to fit in a 10 mile (16 km) run before hitting the gym. But 75-year-old Ernestine Shepherd insists that “age is nothing but a number”. “Miss Ernie”, as she is known in the world of competitive bodybuilding, began training at the tender age of 71. Ernestine Shepherd is the wo…
…mer, which has been running in the U.S. since 1988. The pair was joined by Dr. Rafael Santonja, the president of the International Federation of Body Building (IFBB), to create the European version in 2011. Bodybuilder’s head literally paled in comparison to his super-bronzed body as he flexed his muscles for the judges “We have had many requests over the years to take the Arnold Classic to many…
ersuasion than men. This makes female voters, particularly the blue-collar “waitress moms” whose families have been hard-hit by the recession and unemployment, the most-prized group of swing voters in 2012. Celinda Lake, a veteran Democratic pollster, told USA Today: “In every poll, we’ve seen a major surge among women in favorability for Romney” since the Denver debate. “Women went into the…
and Gerontology Research Group member Stephen Coles said the claim will “remain a curiosity in a newspaper or floating on the internet”. She only spoke in her local language of Mingrelian, and said in 2010 through a translator at her 130th birthday party: “I’ve always been healthy, and I’ve worked all my life – at home and at the farm.” Antisa Khvichava had trouble walking, staye…
news agency. Besse Cooper, the US woman listed as the world’s oldest person, has died aged 116 Besse Cooper was certified by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest person in January 2011. The following May, Guinness discovered that a Brazilian woman, Maria Gomes Valentin, was 48 days older, but she died the following month. Born in Tennessee, Besse Cooper moved to Georgia during…
International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced that Saudi Arabia will send two female athletes to compete in the London 2012 Games. Sarah Attar will compete in the 800 m and Wodjan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shahrkhani in the judo competition. The Saudi authorities lifted a ban on women from the Gulf kingdom competing in the Games last month. The public participation of women in sport is still fie…
A Chinese recruit has to stand and take a bottle smashed over her head if she wants to qualify as one of country’s first female bodyguards. The female bodyguards training session, which took place in Beijing, involved 20 women, most of whom are university graduates. The four-week programme is run by trainers from Tianjiao Special Guard Consultant Ltd and is the first open group training for…
Researchers have found that red dots, hand stencils and animal figures represent the oldest examples yet found of cave art in Europe. The symbols on the walls at 11 Spanish locations, including the World Heritage sites of Altamira, El Castillo and Tito Bustillo have long been recognized for their antiquity. But researchers have now used refined dating techniques to get a more accurate determinati…
…carbon dating to show that the flutes were between 42,000 and 43,000 years old Prof. Nick Conard, the Tuebingen University researcher who identified the previous record-holder for oldest instrument in 2009, was excavator at the site. He said: “These results are consistent with a hypothesis we made several years ago that the Danube River was a key corridor for the movement of humans and techn…
…ad Greek in bed for fun). London and modelling in the early Fifties, though, “wasn’t anything special. There were no supermodels, it wasn’t talked about much at all…I wasn’t nearly as successful in my 20s, I didn’t get anything really exciting.” Daphne Selfe married Jim, a television stage manager, produced three children, and returned to modelling in the Sixties. “But they didn’t like me. I wasn’…
…211; and in fact, does not require sexual activity at all. The study, which was published this week in the American Journal of Medicine, found that in a group of more than 800 women between age 40 and 100, those under 55 and those over 80 were most likely to declare themselves satisfied with their sex lives. And almost half of women who had not had sex in the past month said they were sexually sat…
Researchers have found red blood cells around the wounds of Oetzi, the 5,300-year-old caveman found frozen in the Italian Alps in 1991. Blood cells tend to degrade quickly, and earlier scans for blood within Oetzi’s body turned up nothing. Now a study in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface shows that Oetzi’s remarkable preservation extends even to the blood he shed shortly befo…
…xplain the huge defensive stone walls which ringed the town. Bulgarian archaeologists say that have uncovered the oldest prehistoric town found to date in Europe Excavations at the site, beginning in 2005, have also uncovered the remains of two-storey houses, a series of pits used for rituals, as well as parts of a gate and bastion structures. A small necropolis, or burial ground, was discovered…
Archaeologists have unearthed the oldest known samples of pottery in southern China. The US archaeologists involved have determined that fragments from a large bowl found in Xianrendong Cave, Jiangxi Province, are 20,000 years old. The discovery, published in the journal Science, is the latest in recent years that have pushed back the invention of pottery by 10,000 years. It is thought that the b…
…earch team has discovered what is believed to be the world's oldest animal life, sponge-like fossils unearthed in rocks in a national park in Namibia The discovery places the emergence of animals 100 to 150 million years earlier than scientists had previously thought. The scientists describe the fossils as our “great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother”. Scientists had predicted t…
German historians are debating whether or not to open what is believed to be the world’s oldest bottle of wine. The bottle, believed to be 1,650-year-old, sealed with wax and containing a white liquid, has been on display at the Pfalz Historical Museum for more than a century. The wine, believed to have been produced locally, was buried with a Roman noble near the German city of Speyer in 350AD….
…report in Science says it dates from the early 9th Century, pre-dating other Mayan calendars by centuries. Such calendars rose to prominence recently amid claims they predicted the end of the world in 2012. The Mayan civilization occupied Central America from about 2000 B.C. until its decline and assimilation following the colonization by the Spanish from the 15th Century onwards. It still holds f…
…r taken of these elusive symbols cut into clay tablets. This is Indiana Jones with software. It’s being used to help decode a writing system called proto-Elamite, used between around 3200 BC and 2900 BC in a region now in the south west of modern Iran. And the Oxford team think that they could be on the brink of understanding this last great remaining cache of undeciphered texts from the anc…
were not childish pranks – Louis is 15-years-old.” Louis is the son of Nicolas Sarkozy’s second wife, Cecilia Attias, whom he famously divorced within a few months of becoming president in 2007. Cecilia Attias now lives full time in New York, having remarried, but Louis Sarkozy frequently travels to Paris to see his father. Nicolas Sarkozy has two older sons, Pierre and Jean, who are f…
…led. Matthew Fox is currently filming I, Alex Cross, a thriller based on James Patterson’s murder mystery book series. Matthew Fox fame was raised through his role on Lost, which ran from 2004 to 2010. The actor is married to Margherita Ronchi, whom he met whilst at college and the pair married in 1991 not long after graduating. Matthew Fox and Margherita Ronci have two sons, Kyle and…
ersuasion than men. This makes female voters, particularly the blue-collar “waitress moms” whose families have been hard-hit by the recession and unemployment, the most-prized group of swing voters in 2012. Celinda Lake, a veteran Democratic pollster, told USA Today: “In every poll, we’ve seen a major surge among women in favorability for Romney” since the Denver debate. “Women went into the…
According to new reports, police have issued an arrest warrant for Cuba Gooding Jr. after an altercation at a New Orleans bar in the early hours of this morning. Cuba Gooding Jr., 44, is allegedly accused of shoving a female bartender at the Old Absinthe House on Bourbon Street around 2:00 a.m., according to TMZ. The star became agitated and started swearing when bar patrons who recognized began…
Images of four North Korean female soldiers in heels and Soviet-style hats were released in the latest act of bravado from dictator Kim Jong- un. The images were accompanied by a fresh round of North Korean rhetoric claiming the communist state had “powerful striking means” on standby for a launch. Images of four North Korean female soldiers in heels and Soviet-style hats were released in the la…
David Letterman has opened up about his indiscretions with female employees and how they rocked television – and his marriage – in a tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey. In October 2009, David Letterman made a shocking on-air revelation on the Late Show that he had cheated on his wife, Regina Lasko, whom he had only married that March. He made the confession after becoming the victi…
…part of our ongoing investigation, but we aren’t permitted to discuss specific aspects of our case,” the agency said in a statement. After agents finished their job, Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, 24, left with her attorneys through a separate door. She was later photographed smiling as she left a Providence law center with her attorney. Katherine Russell’s attorneys have previously said she a…
US immigration bill passes Senate panel with 13-5The immigration bill that would offer a chance of citizenship to millions living in the US illegally has taken a stride forward in Congress. A Senate panel voted 13-5 to…
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Travis Alexander home becomes tourist attractionThe family who now lives in the home where Jodi Arias killed her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander is treated to a constant stream of unwanted visitors who drive past the home…
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Oklahoma tornado kills at least 51 people as two entire schools flattened in MooreAt least 51 people have been killed after a huge tornado tore through Oklahoma City suburbs, with the death toll likely to rise. Worst hit was Moore, south of Oklahoma City,…
Travis Alexander case: Jodi Arias' attorneys file motion for mistrialYesterday, Jodi Arias' defense attorneys filed a motion for mistrial as one of their character witnesses scheduled to testify during the May 20, 2013, penalty phase on Arias'…
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