By Sophie Watson Veteran Roger Roberts and care assistant Holli Whitehouse in the water as Roger goes swimming for the first time since WW2. Nursing home bosses arranged for Roger Roberts to go for his first dip in 80 years after HMS Charybdis came under attack in the English Channel in 1943. FOLEY GRANGE CARE
By Mike Wagenheim Refugees from Ukraine watch as Epiphany singers perform for them at the Tegel refugees registration center and temporary shelter on January 7, 2023, in Berlin, Germany. Over 100,000 refugees from Ukraine have sought shelter in Berlin as Russia’s war in Ukraine continues to rage nearly one year on. OMER MESSINGER/JNS Ukraine’s Jewish
By Jessica Hehir-Smith Active 90-year-old grandma, Edna May Giordano. Fitness fanatic Edna May Giordano has shared her simple health and lifestyle tips that keep her looking youthful. DALYCE RADTKE/SWNS TALKER A 90-year-old grandmother – who looks 20 years younger – puts her youthful looks down to self-care and regular exercise, including weights, yoga and gardening.
By Alan Zeitlin Promoter Dmitry Salita speaks during a Dillian Whyte v Jermaine Franklin Press Conference at Royal Institute of British Architects on November 24, 2022, in London, England. Salita said he shares the honor with the late Jimmy O’Pharrow, the coach who trained him at the Starrett City Boxing Club in Brooklyn. ANDREW REDINGTON/JNS
By JNS Reporter Buffalo Bills fans attend a candlelight prayer vigil for player Damar Hamlin at Highmark Stadium on January 3, 2023 in Orchard Park, New York. Hamlin collapsed after making a tackle last night on Monday Night Football. TIMOTHY T LUDWIG/JNS The cardiac arrest of Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin after suffering an injury
By Etgar Lefkovits An army officer who has received both the President’s Award of Excellence and that of the minister of defense, is the first Muslim Arab woman know to become a major in the Israeli Army. Ella Waweya, 33, internationally known as “Captain Ella” (even after her promotion), is the Israeli military’s deputy
By Alan Zeitlin In 1938, composer Hugo Kauder stuffed two suitcases with some of his works and fled Vienna. A Jew, he knew he needed to get away from the Nazis “also stuffed some in a bookcase, but I don’t know that those will ever be found,” his granddaughter Helen said. “He felt like his
By Gabriella Petty A woman loves cleaning so much that she gave up her job as a professional to travel the world and scrub homes for free. Auri Katariina, 29, quit her job as a service manager at a cleaning company in the summer of 2021 to pursue her passion of cleaning other people’s homes
By Emma Dunn A woman spent 24 hours in a dog crate listening to hounds barking and recreating the smell of urine by spraying vinegar onto hay – to educate others on animal testing. Anne-Marie Barton, 44, decided to livestream herself in the crate to recreate the experience of an animal bred in a laboratory
By Pol Allingham Patients waiting for urgent surgery in A&E feel less pain when given a music-playing pillow. After noticing people in emergency departments were often anxious, nurse Lisa Antonsen gave patients a pillow containing a speaker and an MP3 player loaded with specially composed music. The nurse at the Department of Emergency Medicine at
