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Sylvester Stallone sold his own original artwork for $410,000 at a recent charity auction.The 78-year-old Rambo star revealed his lesser-known talent in a clip he shared with TMZ.He filmed the high-energy bidding war for his piece titled ‘Knocking Heads,’ held at The Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas on Friday evening.His piece is a nearly wall-sized canvas filled vivid greens, yellows and reds tones — seemingly inspired by a street-graffiti meets cubism style.And in true Sly fashion, the work sees an stenciled depiction of himself as his iconic character Rocky Balboa and other abstract faces lost in thought. On the bottom left, the words ‘Still…
By SHIVALI BEST FOR MAILONLINE Published: 12:00 EST, 21 November 2024 | Updated: 12:53 EST, 21 November 2024 We all have that one friend who insists on flooding our phone with three-minute voice notes.But the days of digging out your headphones to listen to these lengthy messages are finally a thing of the past. WhatsApp has launched an update which means it will now transcribe your voice notes for you. ‘There’s something special about hearing your loved one’s voice even when you’re far away,’ WhatsApp said.’Though sometimes you’re on the move, in a loud place, or you receive a long voice message that…
By LUKE CHAFER Published: 20:20 EST, 23 November 2024 | Updated: 20:22 EST, 23 November 2024 Going through the menopause makes rheumatoid arthritis more painful, a study suggests.The national survey found four out of five women reported that their arthritis worsened during the menopause. For a tenth, symptoms got ‘much worse’.Researchers quizzed 779 women with rheumatoid arthritis who were either perimenopausal, menopausal or postmenopausal. The study, published in the journal Musculoskeletal Care earlier this month, also found that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was not effective in helping to reduce symptoms.Nearly half the women who completed the survey were on HRT but…
The parachute that the infamous hijacker DB Cooper used to make his getaway out of a plane with $200,000 may have finally been found. The enigma behind DB Cooper, the man who jumped out of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 with thousands in cash after handing a stewardess a note demanding the ransom, has long stumped the FBI. Nearly a decade later, the FBI has begun unofficially looking back into the case after the children of Richard Floyd McCoy II contacted YouTuber Dan Gryder in 2020 with possible evidence. After Chanté and Richard III ‘Rick’ McCoy’s mother died, they got in contact with Gryder – who…
By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 11:22 EDT, 17 June 2011 Discovery: A university student stumbled across unknown papers written by Abraham Lincoln University student David Spriegel was in his second week of a summer internship when he made the discovery of a lifetime.The 21-year-old, who just finished his junior year at St. Mary’s University in Minnesota, was preparing a stack of old papers to be logged in a database and put into storage. As he was examining the documents at the aptly named Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois he noticed a tiny inscription that had been…
By ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: 06:15 EST, 14 May 2024 | Updated: 06:15 EST, 14 May 2024 Advertisement U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday in an unannounced diplomatic mission to reassure Ukraine that it has American support as it struggles to defend against increasingly intense Russian attacks. The visit comes less than a month after Congress approved a long-delayed foreign assistance package that sets aside $60 billion in aid for Ukraine, much of which will go toward replenishing badly depleted artillery and air defense systems. On his fourth trip to Kyiv since Russia invaded Ukraine in…
By ISABEL BALDWIN Published: 10:57 EST, 23 November 2024 | Updated: 11:01 EST, 23 November 2024 NBA star James Harden has revealed that Kobe Bryant shared a piece of life-changing advice with him. Bryant became a legend on the court, winning five NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers, but it appears his influence extended far beyond basketball. The late NBA icon was also a savvy businessman who passed his knowledge of the market on to his peers, Harden has now revealed. The Clippers star shared that Bryant gave him a piece of advice that altered his approach to his finances. ‘Kobe told…
By JEFF PRESTRIDGE Updated: 16:51 EST, 23 November 2024 Investment trust Edinburgh is in its best shape for quite a while. Last week, the £1 billion stock market-listed fund – investing in UK equities – reported half-year results to the end of September. Over the six-month period, it said shareholders had enjoyed total returns of 10.8 per cent, ahead of the FTSE All-Share Index (6.1 per cent).Then, three days ago, it paid investors the first of its quarterly dividends for the current financial year. The payment of 6.9p a share was three per cent ahead of the equivalent divi last…
Sam Asghari got candid as he opened up about his life following his divorce from Britney Spears – which was officially settled earlier this year in May. The Hot Seat actor, 30 – who sparked romance rumors with a mystery woman a few months earlier – dished on his life after the split while talking to People at the amfAR benefit in Las Vegas on Friday. Asghari notably filed for divorce from the Toxic songstress, 42, last year in August – just 14 months after the pair tied the knot in June 2022. ‘It’s the bed that you make yourself, and you got…
Our galaxy colliding with a nearby neighbour is one of the gruesome scenarios of how our world could end. Now, astronomers reveal what such a dramatic ‘smash-up’ event could look like. The international team of scientists have captured a collision between two galaxies located about 290 million light-years away from Earth. One galaxy, called NGC 7318b, travelled towards the other at 2 million mph (3.2 million km/h), pulled by intense gravitational forces.The collision between the pair sparked an immensely powerful shock akin to a ‘sonic boom from a jet fighter.’According to the researchers, the encounter released enough energy to rip apart electrons from atoms. ‘This high-speed…