Rugby’s professional era created a new breed of powerful players so that being tackled in the modern game is ‘like being hit by a truck’, a sports surgeon who treated ex-England hooker Steve Thompson has said. The sport is facing a reckoning as former players reveal the crippling injuries inflicted by a career of fierce collisions. Demands for … Read more
1. A high-performance car (such as a Range Rover, Porsche or Ferrari) 2. A designer watch (Rolex, Cartier, Tag or Omega etc) 3. Your children go to private or boarding school 4. Swimming pool in your home 5. A second home 6. A holiday home abroad 7. An electric car like a Tesla 8. You … Read more
Mammals run hotter, use more energy and live shorter lives than reptiles, but it wasn’t always like that, according to a new study. Research has found that the first mammals to ever evolve, around 200 million years ago, were lethargic individuals that moved at a slow pace, like snakes and lizards. Life in the slow … Read more
They were alive thousands of years ago, in a time of frequent war, where people were still sacrificed to the gods. But, incredibly, Mayan civilisations may still have used the same facial expressions we have today. A study by researchers from California has found that modern-day people can still recognise the emotions of those living up … Read more
People using handheld devices at a cafe and driving cars equipped with television screens may sound like our reality, but these scenarios are sketches from a 1947 French film. ‘Télévision: Oeil de Demain,’ or ‘Television: Eye of Tomorrow,’ not only predicts a range of modern-day technologies, but also how human’s behave with the devices. The … Read more
A man who bought a desert island miles away from civilisation to fulfil his childhood dream of becoming a real-life Robinson Crusoe admits it turned into a nightmare – and he’s selling up 15 years later. In Return to the Wild, airing tonight on Channel 5, Ben Fogle revisits Jim Alston, 48, and Kim Nguyen, 31, … Read more