A FRENCHMAN who lost all his limbs in an electrical accident successfully swam across the Channel on Saturday, a challenge he has been preparing for two years, his support team said. Philippe Croizon, 42, set off from Folkestone in southern England just before 8am and arrived on the French coast near Wissant just before 9.30pm, […]
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Global hunger declines for first time in 15 years
The number of global hungry has declined by nearly 10 percent, the first drop in the number of undernourished since 1995, the UN food agency said in its annual report on Tuesday. A total of 925 million people are undernourished in 2010 compared with 1.023 billion last year, revealing a drop of 9.6 percent, according […]
John Lennon’s 70th celebrated
NEW YORK: A crush of fans circled a flower-graced mosaic in Central Park’s Strawberry Fields and sang lyrics from “Imagine” on Saturday to honor Beatles legend John Lennon on his 70th birthday. On the day when the Liverpool Lad would have become a septuagenarian, thousands of fans from around the world gathered to remember the […]
Boy, 9, is chess ‘master’
A NINE-year-old California boy has become the youngest-ever chess “master” in the United States. Samuel Sevian, of Santa Clara, earned the title after a match in San Francisco. The United States Chess Federation, the governing body of competitive chess, gave him a rating of 2201 after the December 11 match. A rating of 2200 qualifies […]
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