Two Romanian boys are training to become the strongest kids (and later men) in the world.
Donnie and Sharon's story will feature in an episode of new series Body Bizarre, titled Born With An Extra Body: Body Bizarre at 10pm on Monday November 25th 2013
Lizzie Velasquez was once cruelly called the 'World's Ugliest Woman' but now she's starting an inspirational tour to spread a positive message against bullying. Lizzie is just four stone and has almost zero per cent body fat but her appearance is due to a genetic condition called Neonatal Progeroid Syndrome which causes premature ageing and decreased fat under the skin.
Twin sisters Tatiana and Anastasia Dogaru never in the 11-year life of not looked into each other's eyes - they were born Siamese twins, joined in the neck.
Adriana Iliescu, who became the world's oldest mum when she gave birth at 66
Pretty Delfina Cedeno's world was turned upside down when she spontaneously started sweating and crying BLOOD. Doctors in her hometown of Veron, Dominican Republic, were baffled by the condition and 19-year-old Delfina became so depressed she even tried to take her own life.
CURVY Mikel Ruffinelli has the world’s biggest hips - measuring a staggering EIGHT feet round. The 39-year-old’s waist measures just 40 inches but her 100 inch hips are as so wide she can’t fit through doorways and has to buy two seats on planes and trains. Incredibly, the mum-of-four's unusual dimensions are completely natural and Mikel, from Los Angeles, insists she doesn’t want to lose weight, believing bigger really is beautiful.
Amanda Gryce suffers from Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome and lives in a state of permanent arousal. The 22-year-old from Altamonte Springs, Florida can have as many as 50 orgasms a day, which can be triggered by mobile phone vibrations, loud bass music in a club, travelling by car or plane and even the weather.
A 700lb pound (50 stone) woman is starting a desperate battle to lose weight and save her life. Terri Smith, 49, who is possibly the biggest woman in the world, is trapped in her bedroom in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, and is unable to move, stand or roll over by herself. Terri relies on her loving husband Myron, 44, and oldest daughter Najah, 30, to do everything for her.
Gil and Kelly Bates have one of the biggest families in the world - 18 kids and counting. The impressive brood range from 21-year-old Zach to newborn baby Judson Wyatt. Proud father Gil, 45, runs a tree surgery business which the older boys help with. The Bates have never claimed state benefits and believe that children are a blessing from god. Each child helps with household chores and Gil and Kelly, 43, say the family is run on the basis of Christian kindness, co operation and patience - each older child is paired up with a younger child in a daily buddy system.
Connie Culp 2 Years After Her Revolutionary Face Transplant
America's first face transplant patient Connie Culp has set out on her second chance on life after her ground breaking surgery. Culp's former husband, Thomas G. "Tom" Culp in a failed murder suicide attempt when he shot her in the face on 2004, destroying her nose, shattering her cheeks and shutting off most of her vision. he underwent 30 operations prior to the face transplant on December 10, 2008. Surgeon Maria Siemionow led a team of doctors in a 22-hour operation which replaced 80 percent of Culp's face with the face from another woman who had recently died. Now seven years after her ordeal Connie is finally getting her life back as these heart warming images show.
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It was a pivotal moment in history that separated man from other primates. Over a million years ago humankind began to conquer its fear of fire and use it as a tool. But now one special ape - a 31-year-old bonobo chimpanzee called Kanzi at the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa - is showing us just how close we really are. Astonishingly the male chimp's favourite things to do is make campfires.
Prestigious Award to Little Boots?
Tonight Little Boots convince Hove audience that she is more than a blog-hype. In England, it looks like she is already safely inside the cred-heat. The eager bookmakers which have her as one of the big favorites to win the prestigious Mercury Prize.Det the NME reporting that Little Boots is the "other place" by Doves with English bookmakers, and also on the list is Bat for Lashes, La Roux, Florence & The Machine, Lily Allen and Glasvegas.
The official nomination is not made public before 21 July, while the prize is awarded 8 September. Previous winners of the Mercury Prize has experienced both stardom and obscurity after the awards, ekspemplifisert by Primal Scream, PJ Harvey, Antony & the Johnsons, Roni Size and M People.
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Soundworks met PJ Harvey and John Parish at their home in Dorset, England. And here for the benefit of all blood fans, is the interview in its entirety!
Tom's Diner. Enter Sandman. In Da Club. How do I change the pop history? Where did the magic come from? See the first program of hit song story here.
- I sat there with coffee and breakfast. I felt well and anonymous. The name was actually Tom's Restaurant, but it sounds better with "diner". To describe Suzanne Vega cafe she went on as fresh and unknown student with artistic ambitions. And that was really hit us all humming.
We have selected the largest, newer songs that changed both us and the artists who wrote them.
Soundworks journalist had a deep personal encounter with Suzanne Vega, old lovers, mad professor and naïve house producers. See the whole program about Vegas immortal here below!
Together with Swedish and Danish journalists, we have followed in the footsteps of Roxette's "The Look", Jay-Z's "Hard-Knock Life", Metallica's "Enter Sandman," "In Da Club" of 50 cents and "Wicked Game" by Chris Isaak . The stories behind the songs show that:
- Roxette became international stars thanks to an unstoppable exchange student.
- Helena Christensen and Chris Isaak was not in love when they played the video for "Wicked Game".
- One song turned the whole career of the now world's biggest rappers and the world's biggest metal band.
The story of "Tom's Diner" spans nearly 30 years, and drag you through the dirty folk clubs, large discotheques, cyber space and the way to the top of hittlistene. Suzanne Vega's simple acapellalåt was written back in 1981, but would have greater consequences than anyone had predicted. The song's simplicity has proved to be its greatest strength, and has given "Tom's Diner" punch to popular culture.
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Peter Hook was bass player in both Joy Division and New Order heading to Larm festival to give lectures for Norwegian industry people and musicians.
Peter Hook take a trip to this year's Larm festival to hold a seminar for Norwegian industry people and artists. Manchester legend has played in both Joy Division and New Order and delivered bass lines on "Love Will Tear us apart," "Glass" and "Radio" and the all-time best-selling twelve-inch "Blue Monday".
In addition, Hook was part owner of the legendary club and concert venue The Hacienda, referred to as "the world's most famous nightclub" by Newsweek. The club was one of the driving forces behind the emergence of acid house in the late eighties, a wave that made Manchester to Madchester.
In the fresh (and dry witty-titled) book Hacienda - How Not to Run A Club says Peter Hook story behind the night club as he remembers it. A large part of the book is about how the Happy Mondays record sales funded the Hacienda, which mostly went into deficit. While the band was paid £ 20 each week, the huge sums of money from record sales disappointed in the night club to cover up the red numbers.
In other words NOK to learn of the Hook when he is interviewed by Olaf Furniss under Larm festival.
We have met Peter Hook in the past. Here you can see him talk about how it was to be a musician without bearing on the tax and money but carry a big, important club - and how the musicians put all the blame on Factory managers Rob and Tony, and his own view on whether he has created music history with New Order and Joy Division:
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A Yorkshire mum loves breast feeding so much she has decided to have her milk turned into a radical new ice-cream. Victoria Hiley, 35, from Leeds donated a total of 30 fluid ounces of breast milk to a new London based ice-cream parlour after seeing an advert on the internet. Aptly named Baby Gaga, the ice-cold breast milk concoction will soon be available to ice-cream lovers at The 'Icecreamists' parlour in Covent Garden.
Alltwalis wind farm consists of ten wind turbines with a total installed capacity of 23 MW. The annual production is estimated at 65 GWh – enough to supply 16 000 British households with green energy. The wind farm entered operation in December 2009.
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CLIENT: STATKRAFT NORWAY
Conjoined Twin Sisters
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A set of conjoined twins who have never looked each other in the eye have been given a glimmer of hope they may one day be separated - and live to tell the tale. Doctors tried and failed to separate loveable sisters Tatiana and Anastasia Dogaru, seven, in a gruelling 10-hour op in 2007, at the age of three. Now four years later signs suggest the sisters are reaching a point where a separation might be possible but highly dangerous. In their first interview since failed efforts to separate their girls, mum and dad Claudia, 35, a nurse, and Alin Dogaru, 36, a priest, have revealed they are in an 'unbearable race against the clock' to have their girls separated, they soon face a risky decision that could mean life or death for their daughters. New tests have revealed the girls blood pressures - with Tatiana's previously high and Anastasia's low in a medical mystery - are beginning to balance. It's a crucial factor in the complicated separation surgery. A separation of similar twins Rital and Ritag Gaboura by doctors at London's Great Ormond St last month gave them further hope.
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She blew £20,000 on a wedding for her beloved dog Lola, so it's hardly surprising shop-owner Louise Harris had to claw back expenses when it came to the honeymoon. Pet-lover Louise - who has spent more than £100,000 on her trio of pampered pups - did what any sensible, cash-strapped Brit would do and sent Lola and groom Mugly on a budget honeymoon to their local beach in Essex
A Brit love doll fanatic reveals his collection of 240 fake girlfriends - the BIGGEST love doll collection in the WORLD. Bob Gibbins, 60, is known to fellow collectors as "The Hugh Hefner of the Love Doll World." And even though married dad Bob has just a small bungalow in Madley, Herefordshire, pals have dubbed the pad "The Love Doll Mansion
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This 1969 Ford Mustang could be ready to rev-up to the max except for one important problem--it is made entirely of paper. Reproduced in its entirety down to the nuts and bolts and made to full scale, the famous American muscle car is displayed with its parts separate, rather than in one single object. On display at the Hosfelt Gallery in New York City, the complicated art piece was created by 31 year-old artist Jonathan Brand. Produced using computer generated drawings that are printed as large format inkjet sheets, Jonathan folds and glues the shapes together to create a 3-D kigsaw puzzle.
Former lawyer Nathan Sawaya gave up his lucrative profession to become one of only a handful of LEGO artists in the world. Working out of his Mahattan studio which contains at any one time up to 1.5 million pieces of the famous toy bricks, Nathan's work come under the umbrella title 'The Art of the Brick.' Selling an average LEGO artwork for around £10,000, Nathan has sold his most expensive work for in excess of six figures. His works, which are shown in galleries across the globe and are in demand by top art dealers, include life-size 'sculptures' and can each use 150,000 of the familiar little bricks.
Just like the ghost with the most, it is show time for the world's biggest Beetlejuice fan. Throwing open the doors to the 'Beetlejuice Museum' Bruce Christensen, 48, has amassed the world's largest collection of memorabilia from the 1988 Tim Burton cult classic.