A 4-year-old is being dubbed a “mini Steve Irwin” after taking the internet by storm by cuddling deadly pythons, chasing wild wombats and rescuing koalas. Millions of people on TikTok have watched Ashlee Neille interact with many wildlife creatures at her family’s shelter in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. Her dad, Josh Neille, said she’s already fallen … Read more
He kept them on their heels. A serial world record-breaker from Spain ran a 100-meter sprint while wearing high heels. Christian Roberto López Rodríguez donned 2.76-inch stilettos and ran the distance in 12.82 seconds, earning his 57th Guinness World Record, which the reference book posted on its Instagram page Friday. His time was actually only … Read more
It’s finally sunny in Wrexham, Wales, where the long-beleaguered soccer club has won itself promotion to a higher league — to the jubilation of actors and co-owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney. The actors shelled out $2.5 million for Wrexham AFC — a Welsh soccer team that had been relegated by regularly dismal play and … Read more
Hospital food would normally rank alongside school lunches on the culinary charts but a hospital in western Belgium has broken the stereotype after winning approval from a prestigious French restaurant guide. AZ Groeninge in the city of Kortrijk becomes the first hospital in the Benelux to be officially recognized by Gault & Millau for the … Read more
Viola Davis earned a Grammy and the EGOT title at Sunday’s 2023 Grammy Awards. She scored the Grammy for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording for narrating her memoir, “Finding Me.” “I don’t know if I expected it,” the 57-year-old actress said of her first Grammy nomination in an interview with the Recording Academy … Read more
A new, breakthrough drug designed to aggressively treat Alzheimer’s disease was awarded accelerated approval by the Food and Drug Administration on Friday. Leqembi — developed by Tokyo-headquartered Eisai — has been shown in trials to slow the cognitive and functional decline of people in the early stages of the illness. The accelerated approval comes amid … Read more
A South American couple with over 98 body modifications earned a world record for their collective number of piercings, microdermals, body implants and other modifications, according to Guinness World Records. Victor Hugo, a native of Uruguay, and Gabriela Peralta from Argentina, had already earned the title for the most body modifications (married couple) with 84 in 2014. Since that … Read more