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AFP/Guillermo Legaria Oscar Perez (r.) and Oscar Diaz (l) play tejo, a popular Colombian game that every weekend gathers thousands of fans. Players toss a tejo, or disc, at a metal tube that’s surrounded by bags of gunpowder. As sports go, it is rather old, quite boozy and a tad explosive. It involves trying to hurl a disc into a ...

Puma Mario Balotelli stars in a new ad campaign for Puma. The AC Milan striker is the newest soccer star to sign up for Puma, and has a special headline-grabbing pair of boots. Sports brand Puma has signed a deal with Italian footballer Mario Balotelli, who becomes the latest face of the brand alongside sprinter Usain Bolt, golfer Rickie Fowler ...

When you flex a muscle in your arm, it’s not the muscle that’s shrinking, but the cells that comprise it. Each cell lining the muscle’s length has its own limited contractile ability, one driven by tiny motor and ratchet proteins that crumple up a cell and refuse to let it relax. Rather than being a single continuous muscular action, your ...

Iggy fell from this clifftop at Beachy Head in East Sussex while he was chasing seagulls [SOLENT NEWS] Young collie Iggy plunged over the edge at Beachy Head, East Sussex, as his horrified owners Claire Morris and husband Mark Russell looked on, helpless to stop his fall. Claire, 50, from Haslemere, Surrey, said: “It was horrible. Collie dog Iggy, none ...

Joan Marcus Colin Hurley, on table as Sir Toby, with, from l., Mark Rylance as Olivia, Paul Chahidi as Maria, Peter Hamilton Dyer as Feste, Matt Harrington as Olivia’s servant, and Terry McGinity as a priest in “Twelfth Night.”. He’s a California Yankee in King Richard’s court. Matt Harrington plays multiple roles in the repertory production of “Twelfth Night” and ...

nystateofhealth.ny.gov The official website of the New York Health Plan Marketplace – “New York State of Health.” Shows enrollment as of Dec. 15, 2013. Monday is the deadline to sign up for health insurance plans under Obamacare if buyers want their insurance to kick in at the beginning of the new year. The deadline has already been extended for a ...

Sandra Bernhard has a few choice words for Barbara Walters and her picks for the “10 Most Fascinating People of 2013” special — specifically the stars of “Duck Dynasty.” She believes Babs’ annual show contributes to the dumbing down of our culture. “I don’t know how much lower we can go when you see Barbara Walters sitting with those toothless ...

’Tis the season to be jilted. Fewer couples will be kissing under the mistletoe this week as breakup season brings a blizzard of splits just before Christmas. If you’re about to get dumped, rest assured, you’re not alone in being alone. Since when did the most wonderful time of the year become a lump of coal for relationships? The anecdotal ...

Oli Scarff/Getty Images Nigella Lawson, a celebrity chef who admitted hard drug use, was known by her former assistants to have wild mood swings. Nigella Lawson acted like a “zombie” one minute and a “Duracell bunny” the next, said the Italian sisters cleared Friday of defrauding the TV chef and her ex-husband Charles Saatchi while working as assistants for Lawson. ...

Drew Hallowell/Getty Images LeSean McCoy (l.) runs all over the Bears in a 54-11 beatdown in Philly Sunday night. EAGLES 54, BEARS 11 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Knowing they have everything to play for next week, the Philadelphia Eagles never let up against a team with plenty on the line. Nick Foles threw two touchdown passes, LeSean McCoy ran for two ...