Erotic Hollywood producer’s companies gleaned millions from unusable dating sites
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Diogo Jota’s deftness on the ball dazzled and puzzled fans, which is why his cruel death in burning car has hurt Liverpool
Jota was beloved not just because of his prowess as a striker, but because of his warmth and friendliness as a human being. Darwin Nunez, his fellow Liverpool forward, said he would always remember his “smile, as a good companion on and off the field” and he wasn’t alone.
‘I never wanted to be known just for football…,’ NFL icon Ndamukong Suh opens up on how sharpest minds in sports manage their money
Throughout my NFL career, when I wasn’t sacking your favourite quarterback, I was networking with some of the sharpest business minds in the world. That led me to build a real estate portfolio, step into investing and become an advocate for financial literacy.
After signing bumper deal Arsenal’s teenage fullback Myles Lewis-Skelly reveals ‘mamba mentality’ that endears him to fans, team manager
As well as Myles, both Marcia and his father, Paul, spoke on their experience as academy parents. It was important to them that Mertesacker was present, given his role in Lewis-Skelly’s education. Mertesacker and under-18s coach Adam Birchall have been integral to Lewis-Skelly’s development.
US health secretary’s ‘alternative medicine’ push inspired quest to ‘live forever’ via snake venom, urine therapy
Biohacking is a big tent, combining Silicon Valley technology, Burning Man spirituality and health libertarianism. If anything unites this crowd, it is a distrust of the medical status quo – particularly the pharmaceutical industry – and an appetite for tech-heavy alternatives.
Pirates of the past: How buccaneers and criminals shaped history, modern military, democracy and world trade
Conquests by pirates have been in many instances an inspiration to sportsmen, musicians and filmmakers. Tales of conquests by pirates are stuff of the impossible. Piracy can easily be the byword for heroism, which mankind craves.
From a small lab in a rural school in western Kenya, a chemistry teacher builds an ethanol distillery from Lake Victoria water hyacinth
When the National Environment Trust Fund (NETFUND) issued a call for green innovations, Arua submitted his idea. It won him a place in a two-year incubation programme, during which he refined the concept into a viable product.
Food rations are halved in one of Africa’s largest refugee camps following US President Trump aid pause
Food rations have been halved. Previous ration cuts led to protests in March. Monthly cash transfers that refugees used to buy proteins and vegetables to supplement the rice, lentils and cooking oil distributed by WFP have ended this month.
Buried faith: Temple beneath the mosque and why Jews could not establish State of Israel in western Kenya
What was in the nineteenth century the Luhyia Kingdom (also known as Wanga Kingdom) had been carved out for Jews, but this was not to be as resettling in western Kenya would have meant the community that is believed the descendants of Jesus Christ being stripped of their spiritual, cultural and biological attachment to their motherland.
How Buffalo Bicycle became a timely intervention in health coverage in rural Uganda
In Uganda, an East African country of 45 million people, efforts to market the bicycle have focused on supporting health workers like Abalo, who visits people’s homes and reports any issues to authorities.
