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Experience: I’m a 79-year-old world champion powerlifter
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I started powerlifting when I was 65. I worked in real estate in Michigan for about 35 years, and when I retired I decided I wanted to lose a bit of weight. A friend’s husband, Art Little, who is a personal trainer, i...
‘Her playfulness is infectious’: meet the 12-year-old behind 2022’s most beguiling album
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Sam Gendel and Antonia Cytrynowicz are two of experimental pop music’s most unlikely creative partners. Gendel, 35, is the Los Angeles saxophonist who has lent his talents to records by Vampire Weekend, Maggie Rogers ...
Child’s 130,000-year-old tooth could offer clues to extinct human relative
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A child’s tooth at least 130,000 years old found in a Laos cave could help scientists uncover more information about an early human cousin, according to a new study. Researchers believe the discovery proves that Denis...
Katie Kenyon: body in Lancashire forest confirmed to be missing 33-year-old
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A body found in a Lancashire forest has been identified as missing 33-year-old Katie Kenyon, police have confirmed. Lancashire constabulary said a postmortem examination found that she had died as a result of head inj...
A 15-year-old skinhead rides the tube in 1980 – Gavin Watson’s best picture
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Growing up on a council estate in High Wycombe in the late 1970s, skinhead culture just spoke to me. It was all about camaraderie, fashion and music. We were listening to 2 Tone bands such as the Specials and aping wh...
Campaigning mother of murdered 20-year-old Sophie Lancaster dies suddenly
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Sylvia Lancaster, the mother of a 20-year-old woman who was murdered in 2007 because she was dressed as a goth, has died. Lancaster died suddenly and unexpectedly on Tuesday morning, according to a statement posted by...
Buffalo police cleared over pushing 75-year-old George Floyd protester
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An arbitrator has ruled that two Buffalo police officers did not violate use-of-force guidelines when they pushed a 75-year-old protester to the ground in June 2020, during racial injustice protests following the murd...
‘Japan’s most famous yachtsman’: 83-year-old attempts solo Pacific crossing
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An 83-year old man is set to sail from San Francisco on Saturday and voyage alone across the Pacific Ocean to his home country, Japan. Kenichi Horie, also known as “Japan’s most famous yachtsman”, became the first per...
Kenosha off-duty police officer shown putting knee on 12-year-old girl’s neck
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School officials in Kenosha, Wisconsin released surveillance footage that showed an off-duty police officer putting his knee on a 12-year-old girl’s neck to restrain her amid a lunchtime fight. The Kenosha Unified Sch...
13-year-old drove pickup that killed six college golfers in Texas crash
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A 13-year-old was driving the pickup truck that struck a van in West Texas in a fiery collision that killed nine people, including six members of a college golf team and their coach, a National Transportation Safety B...
Rewatching Girls, an unlikely character shines through: the grumpy 33-year-old man
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Getting Covid wasn’t the way I intended to spend my first few weeks of being 32, but like many other Australians battling the Omicron wave, earlier this year I was stuck on the couch mired in lethargy for weeks. Unabl...
‘Like a horror movie’: 19-year-old shares Ukraine escape on TikTok
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As Diana Totok and her sister reached through the wire fence separating Romania from Ukraine to grasp her father’s hand, it occurred to her that she might never see him again. Ukraine’s new wartime laws barred their f...
Five- to 11-year-old children in England to be offered Covid vaccine
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All children aged five to 11 in England will be offered a Covid vaccine, ministers have said in a long-awaited announcement, while emphasising that parents would be expected to make their own decision. The rollout, de...
What I should have done when my 12-year-old told me he was transgender
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When my son Connor first told me he was transgender and was not, in fact, the daughter I thought he was for the first 12 years of his life, I could have handled it a lot better. It’s not that I kicked and screamed. I...
Saved: the Wordle clue that helped rescue 80-year-old woman from hostage ordeal
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The wildly popular online puzzle Wordle has been credited with keeping people across the world sane amid the ravages of the pandemic. But now it has been hailed as a potential life saver, by providing the clue that he...
The 90-year-old Australian fish who likes belly rubs is likely oldest aquarium fish – video
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A primitive Australian fish living in a San Francisco museum is believed to be the oldest living aquarium fish in the world. Methuselah is a four-foot-long (1.2-meter) Australian lungfish, weighing around 40lb (18.1kg...