A 100-year-old grandmother-turned food blogger in Shanghai has trended on social media thanks to her enthusiasm for eating a range of foods. The centenarian’s culinary likes include strong flavoured foods normally shunned by elderly people. The lifestyle of Zhong Wenyu, who turned 100 in September, is far different from that of many senior citizens who…
“Youth is overrated” is a mantra empowering open water swimmer Edie Hu to break records at 50 years of age. On November 20, the Hong Kong art dealer set off from the Disneyland Resort Pier to circumnavigate Lantau – Hong Kong’s largest island – in a tandem swim with friends Simon Holliday, 46, the founder…
Friday, 7 November 2025, 10:08 The latest edition of the Guinness Book of Records has added Wences Palau Fernández from Catalonia in northern Spain, who has more than 3,615 mobile phones, all of them verified, at his home in Barcelona. His first phone was a Nokia 3210 received in 1999, but he didn’t get around…
Cristiano Ronaldo (Image Source: Getty) Cristiano Ronaldo’s move from Europe to Saudi Arabia in 2023 wasn’t the end of his story. It was the start of a whole new chapter. Many had expected it to mark the end of an era.Maybe even a quiet way to wind down a legendary career. But the legend didn’t…
Investors might be sitting on a secret weapon that could send stocks soaring. That’s according to Wall Street strategists, who say that a big reason to be bullish on stocks in the near term is the record $7 trillion in cash investors have stored in money markets fund. That money — sidelined in assets like…
A rally in big tech stocks led the broader market to a higher close Wednesday, lifting the Nasdaq to an all-time high and helping Wall Street claw back most of its losses from earlier in the week. The S&P 500 rose 0.6% for its first gain this week. The benchmark index remains near the record…
SHANGHAI — Mainland Chinese investors have poured a record 680 billion yuan ($94.8 billion) into the Hong Kong stock market so far this year, helping boost its gains in contrast to a lackluster performance at home. Net buying of Hong Kong stocks via the stock connect program, which enables mainland and Hong Kong investors to…