A US firefighter has battled osteoarthritis and four hip replacements to break the world paddleboarding record. Robyn Benincasa, 47, paddled non-stop for 90 miles around California's Huntington Beach Harbour. The athlete, from Cardiff by the Sea, California, spent 24 hours standing on a surf board while struggling against the pain of her artificial hip. 'I did this for all of the amazing women I know who are recovering from medical setbacks. I want to show what's possible when you choose not to focus on what you've lost, but on being the best of what you are today,' Robyn said…
AN anorexic woman whose heart stopped after she starved herself to 3st has revealed that ‘dying’ for a minute helped shock her into recovery .
At 19st and eight months pregnant, Ashley Whitfield, went into hospital to have her baby son, Isaac, delivered by emergency C-section .
A terrifying prankster has given unsuspecting urban explorers the fright of their lives .
A diabetic who was addicted to energy drinks has lost 8st after doctors warned her habit was blinding her .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
Suspended FIFTY metres in the air, this is the last place that you would expect to find a fine dining experience .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .
Two people have been arrested after a man and woman were shot dead at a house in the Midlands in the early hours of this morning .
A young woman has told how she has been robbed of her fertility and now faces an uncertain future after she was diagnosed with cervical cancer at the age of just 22 .
IT'S the iconic TV show that influenced a whole generation in the 1990s .
Oscar Pistorius entered a courtroom Monday for the start of his murder trial, walking past the victim's mother who says she came to court so she can ‘really look him in the eyes .