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DBliss Media at August 22, 2018 0
Serena Williams earned just $62,000 (£48,050) from prize money after giving birth to her daughter Olympia

Eight of the top 10 highest earning female athletes are tennis players, with 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams topping the Forbes list.

Williams earned just $62,000 (£48,050) from prize money during the past year - owing largely to her 14-month break to have a baby - but made $18m (£13.95m) through endorsements.

Badminton's PV Sindhu and race car driver Danica Patrick are the only non-tennis players in the top 10.

In June, the Forbes rankings of the world's top 100 highest earning athletes did not feature a woman after Williams dropped out of the chart.

US boxer Floyd Mayweather topped the list followed by football's Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

The top 10 highest earning female athletes earned $105m (£81.4m) in total from June 2017 to June 2018.

That figure is down 4% from last year and 28% from five years ago.

Williams' total earnings ensure she tops the list for the third successive year, making twice as much away from the tennis court as any other female athlete.

Caroline Wozniacki is second on the list having won her first Grand Slam title at the Australian Open earlier this year - a victory that secured her $3.1m (£2.4m) in prize money to push her total earnings to $13m (£10.1m).

Completing the top five are Sloane Stephens, Garbine Muguruza and Maria Sharapova.

Russian Sharapova was the top-earning female athlete for 11 consecutive years but has seen her earnings drop after her 15-month doping ban.

Indian Olympic and world silver medallist Sindhu and Patrick - the most successful female race car driver - are seventh and ninth on the list respectively.

The top 10 and their total earnings
  1. Serena Williams (tennis) - $18.1m (£14m)
  2. Caroline Wozniacki (tennis) - $13m (£10.1m)
  3. Sloane Stephens (tennis) - $11.2m (£8.7m)
  4. Garbine Muguruza (tennis) - $11m (£8.5m)
  5. Maria Sharapova (tennis) - $10.5m (£8.1m)
  6. Venus Williams (tennis) - $10.2m (£7.9m)
  7. PV Sindhu (badminton) - $8.5m (£6.6m)
  8. Simona Halep (tennis) - $7.7m (£6m)
  9. Danica Patrick (race car driving) - $7.5m (£5.8m)
  10. Angelique Kerber (tennis) - $7m (£5.4m)


By BBC Sport
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DBliss Media at January 19, 2018 0
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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced she is pregnant (AFP / SAEED KHAN)


By AFP


New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Friday she is expecting her first baby in June, making her the country's first leader to give birth while in office.

The 37-year-old, who took office in October, said the pregnancy was "unexpected but exciting" for her and partner Clarke Gayford.

"We're both really happy. We wanted a family but weren't sure it would happen for us," she said in a statement.

The charismatic leader enjoyed a meteoric rise last year, winning office just months after taking the helm of the centre-left Labour Party.

"We thought 2017 was a big year!" she tweeted.

"This year we'll join the many parents who wear two hats. I'll be PM and a mum while Clarke will be 'first man of fishing' and stay at home dad."

Ardern said she would take six weeks off after the birth of her child, with maverick Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters taking the reins of office.

She said she would be "contactable and available" during the period and would resume all leadership duties when it was over.

Ardern, who did not reveal whether she was expecting a boy or a girl, said she and Gayford previously had doubts they could conceive.

"Clarke and I have always been clear we wanted to be parents but had been told we would need help for that to happen," she said.

"That's made this news a fantastic surprise."

Ardern's plans for a family sparked a sexism row during the election when a television host quizzed her on the issue, saying voters had a right to know before they cast their ballots.

She rejected the line of questioning as "unacceptable", saying pregnancy and child rearing should not hinder women's opportunities in the workplace.

"It is a woman's decision about when they choose to have children and it should not predetermine whether or not they are given a job or have job opportunities," she said.

Late Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is believed to have been the first head of government to have given birth while in office, when she had a baby in 1990.

- 'More excited than election' -

Ardern said "there's no doubt times have changed" making it possible for her to juggle motherhood and a high-profile political career.

But she played down suggestions she was a trailblazer.

"There are plenty of women who have multi-tasked... in terms of being a woman in politics," she told reporters.

"There are plenty of women who carved a path incrementally to make it possible for people to look upon my time in leadership and think 'yes I can do the job and be a mother'."

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull offered his congratulations on the "wonderful news".

"When we spoke this morning you sounded more excited than you did when you won the election!" he tweeted.

"Lots of love and best wishes from me and Lucy and all of us across the ditch."

Ex-New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark, Ardern's mentor early in her career, said her former charge was in for "a super busy year".

"Every woman should have the choice of combining family & career," she tweeted.

Green Party co-leader James Shaw said Ardern's announcement was significant for many women.

"That a woman can be the prime minister of New Zealand and choose to have a family while in office says a lot about the kind of country we are and that we can be -- modern, progressive, inclusive, and equal," he said.
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DBliss Media at January 16, 2018 0
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Findings suggest that women with premature reproductive cycles or a history of adverse events should be frequently screened for heart trouble (AFP/File / STEFAN HEUNIS)


By AFP


Women who started menstruating at the age of 11 or younger, or entered menopause before 47, face a higher risk of heart disease and stroke, according to a study published Tuesday.

Miscarriage, stillbirth, undergoing a hysterectomy, and bearing children at a young age were also associated with elevated odds of cardiovascular problems later in life, researchers found.

The additional risk varied from only a few percentage points to more than 40 percent, they reported in the journal Heart.

The findings are not the first to uncover a link between reproductive factors and cardiovascular diseases, and the data do not show a causal relationship, the authors cautioned.

But their findings do strengthen the association, and suggest that women with premature reproductive cycles or a history of adverse events should be frequently screened for heart trouble and conditions leading to blood clots.

The scientists drew data from a long-term health survey in Britain that monitored and tested more than a quarter of a million women from 2006 to 2016. The women's average age was 56 when monitoring began.

More than four-fifths had been pregnant, and nearly half had two children. On average, they started having their periods at 13, and had their first child at 26.

In 2016, two-thirds of the women had gone through menopause, at an average age of 50.

The study showed that women who began menstruating before the age of 12 faced a 10 percent greater risk of cardiovascular disease compared to those who were 13 or older.

For those who went through menopause before the age of 47, the risk for cardiovascular disease rose by 33 percent, and for stroke alone by 42 percent.

Miscarriages were likewise linked with a greater danger of heart disease, with each stillbirth increasing the risk by six percent.

A hysterectomy was associated with a 20 percent higher chance of developing heart disease, the team found.
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DBliss Media at January 04, 2018 0
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By TheHill

Attorney General Jeff Sessions will roll back an Obama-era policy that gave states leeway to allow marijuana for recreational purposes.

Two sources with knowledge of the decision confirmed to The Hill that Sessions will rescind the so-called Cole memo, which ordered U.S. attorneys in states where marijuana has been legalized to deprioritize prosecution of marijuana-related cases.

The Associated Press first reported the decision.

Sessions, a vocal critic of marijuana legalization, has hinted for months that he would move to crack down on the growing cannabis market.

Sessions, since taking over as head of the Justice Department, has appeared to show a harder line on marijuana. In May, the attorney general sent a letter to congressional leaders requesting they get rid of an amendment in the department’s budget that blocks the Justice Department from using federal money to prevent states "from implementing their own State laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession or cultivation of medical marijuana."

Opponents of legal marijuana on Thursday celebrated the long-awaited action. 

“It’s pretty clear that the federal policy is going to be that U.S. attorneys will have discretion and the industry can no longer hide behind the Cole memo and say that they’re protected,” said Kevin Sabet, who worked in Obama’s Office of National Drug Control Policy and now runs the anti-legalization group Smart Approaches to Marijuana. “There is an unknown here because we don’t know how this is going to be implemented.”

It was not immediately clear when Sessions will formally revoke the agreement, authored in 2013 by then-Deputy Attorney General James Cole.

The move is likely to put the federal government in conflict with states where marijuana is legal for recreational use. California on Monday became the sixth state to legalize recreational marijuana. Massachusetts and Maine are set to join those states later this year.

“It’s really the beginning of the story, not the end,” Sabet said.

Legalization has led to a booming marijuana business in some states, where wealthy growers and even hedge funds have invested millions of dollars in production and sales. Some industry analysts peg the North American cannabis market at $10 billion in annual sales.

Mallory Shelbourne contributed to this report, which was updated at 9:28 a.m.
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DBliss Media at December 19, 2017 0


By Source: Staff Reports CL 

Singer/songwriter Brandon Heath and wife Siebe announced the arrival of their first child, a healthy baby girl named Palmer Brown. 

"She's here!!! Our beautiful baby girl was born Dec. 15th at 4:49pm. She is a petit thing at 6lb13oz. Siebe was AMAZING! We brought Palmer home yesterday morning and we are enjoying time together by the Christmas tree. I promise more pics to come, right after I take a nap (wink)," Brandon shared today alongside an exclusive article from People Babies that detailed their daughter's entrance into the world. 


Brandon recently took to social media to share some photos of Siebe and her baby bump over the past nine months of pregnancy, proudly saying that she was doing great and has "never been more beautiful." The couple, who married three years ago, also shared a video taking fans on a tour of the baby's nursery. Click here to check out the video tour and here to see more photos of the new family of three in People's birth announcement.
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DBliss Media at December 12, 2017 0
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Ho Van Lang developed a taste for rodents as he struggled to survive in the jungle (IMAGE: GETTY - CONTRIBUTOR)

By Thesun.co.uk

A VIETNAMESE man has opened up on how he managed to live off huge rats after fleeing the horrors Vietnam War to become a real life Tarzan.

In an extraordinary video Ho Van Lang, 44, shows how he captured and gorged on rats in a bid to survive while taking sanctuary in the deep forest in the Tay Tra district of Quang Ngai province.

Along with dad Ho Van Thanh, 85, a South Vietnamese Army veteran, he fled as a boy from his small village in 1971.


This came after a US bomb killed his mum and two other siblings.

What a feast… He then gorges on the roasted beast, enjoying its simple rodent taste (GOCASTAWAY)

The province was a Viet Cong stronghold and was the scene of fierce jungle battles as the US military attempted to flush out the communist insurgents.

From then on they hid from all human contact fearing they would be killed in the crossfire.

Like Tarzan they lived in tree houses and dressed in loincloths fashioned out of tree bark.

They were discovered by locals in 2013. Since then they have slowly been adapting to civilisation – they now live in a house near the jungle.

More recently Alvaro Cerezo, managing director of Docastaway – which offers holidays to remote, uninhabited parts of the world – met with Lang.

US soldiers and marines burn down jungle villages if they suspected they were harbouring the Viet Cong insurgents (Getty Image)

He had wanted to ask him about survival techniques, but they ended up spending five days together living in the jungle where he had grown up.

“This ‘Mowgli’ was completely ignorant of how the outside, civilised world was with the exception of the stories his father told him about the aeroplanes that crossed the sky,” Alvaro said.

A video was then filmed which includes a scene where he brutally kills a huge rat before cooking it and then munching on its flesh.
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DBliss Media at December 11, 2017 0
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Saudi women attend a rare cinema screening at a film festival in Riyadh in October 2017. Saudi Arabia on Monday announced a lifting of the kingdom's decades-long ban on cinemas (AFP/File / FAYEZ NURELDINE)

By AFP

Saudi Arabia on Monday lifted a decades-long ban on cinemas, part of a series of social reforms by the powerful crown prince that are shaking up the ultra-conservative kingdom.

The government said it would begin licensing cinemas immediately and the first movie theatres are expected to open next March, in a decision that could boost the kingdom's nascent film industry.

Reviving cinemas would represent a paradigm shift in the kingdom, which is promoting entertainment as part of a sweeping reform plan for a post-oil era, despite opposition from conservatives who have long vilified movie theatres as vulgar and sinful.

"Commercial cinemas will be allowed to operate in the Kingdom as of early 2018, for the first time in more than 35 years," the culture and information ministry said in a statement.

"This marks a watershed moment in the development of the cultural economy in the kingdom," the statement quoted Information Minister Awwad Alawwad as saying.

Like most public spaces in the kingdom, cinema halls are expected to be segregated by gender or have a separate section for families.

Hardliners, who see cinemas as a threat to cultural and religious identity, were instrumental in shutting them down in the 1980s.

Saudi Arabia's highest-ranking cleric warned in January of the "depravity" of cinemas, saying they would corrupt morals.

But authorities appear to be shrugging off the threat, with some comparing Saudi Arabia's reform drive to a fast-moving bus -- either people get on board or risk being left behind.

- 'Open, moderate Islam' -

Saudi Arabia in recent months has organised music concerts, a Comic-Con pop culture festival and a mixed-gender national day celebration that saw people dancing in the streets to thumping electronic music for the first time.

Saudis themselves appear quietly astounded by the torrid pace of change -- including the historic decision allowing women to drive from next June.

The social transformation chimes with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's recent pledge to return Saudi Arabia to an "open, moderate Islam" and destroy extremist ideologies.

Saudi filmmakers have long argued that a ban on cinemas does not make sense in the age of YouTube.

Saudi films have been making waves abroad, using the internet to circumvent distribution channels and sometimes the stern gaze of state censors.

"It is a beautiful day in #SaudiArabia! Saudi Arabia says cinemas to get licenses in early 2018," Saudi female director Haifaa al-Mansour wrote on Twitter.

Her film "Wadjda" made history in 2013 after it became Saudi Arabia's first Academy Award entry.

The film depicts the dream of a 10-year-old girl to get a bicycle just like the boys in her conservative neighbourhood.

This year, the country is again vying for an Oscar with the film "Barakah Meets Barakah", the kingdom's first romantic comedy which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival.

"Now our young men and women will show the world possibilities and stories worth seeing," Saudi filmmaker Aymen Tarek Jamal said on Twitter.

"Congratulations to the 2030 Generation."
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