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A gentle breeze rustles through the trees in Central Park. I grab a coffee in the park’s cafe and sit listening to a classical quartet. It’s a calming moment and I almost forget that I’m on the biggest cruise ship in the world. Wonder of the Seas is not quite a city, but when full she carries 6,988 passengers and 2,300 crew — a total population three times bigger than the Kent village where I live. From Central Park, I wander along to the Boardwalk, where the make-believe continues as I jump on a carousel ride. It’s all very Mary…

TWO US Air Force personnel fly by the seat of their pants — dangling their legs from the rear exit of a military plane. The male and female crew’s daring high jinks came as their Hercules aircraft carried out exercises. Mr Smith, who took the images, described capturing the officers over the edge of the jet as “awesome”. He said: “I couldn’t believe it, it was amazing. It looks like they were on a training exercise and the lady on the left looks like she’s having a nice time. Sometimes they have training sessions and rides around here but I’ve…

This first USAF flight, which validated key aspects of the next-generation trainer, marks the start of the engineering and manufacturing development phase. A U.S. Air Force test pilot finally flew at the commands of a Boeing T-7A Red Hawk, in what was officially the inaugural flight of the service’s first next generation trainer. While the one on June 28, 2023, was the first flight with a military pilot on board, thanks to ADS-B tracking we know that the first USAF T-7 already flew for the first time last week, on June 22. “This first flight with the Air Force represents…

A woman has birthed her baby girl on the water’s edge at a beach, supported by her doula and obstetrician in what she describes was a ‘natural and ecological birth’. Maria Luna, who is herself a doula, shared videos of her incredible and powerful birth on social media and explained how she prepared for the unique labour and birth. “Today was the day, the expected day, we lived our natural, physiological, ecological birth, in the place we dreamed, with wonderful details from God to live it and with the ideal company,” she wrote in the comments of her video. “We…

DAVID DE GEA has been sensationally asked not to join another club despite his contract being up at Manchester United. The Red Devils are effectively asking the player to hang around in case they cannot find a new number one within their transfer budget. The 32-year-old had already been asked to take a wage reduction from £375,000 to £200,000. Then even that offer was pulled because it is clear manager Erik ten Hag is looking elsewhere. But that search is being hampered by a limited transfer budget and the priority to get a new striker. A Man Utd statement read:…

The Wonder of the Seas – the world’s biggest cruise ship – has officially joined Royal Caribbean’s fleet. And a mesmerising video shows the behemoth’s journey to completion, from steel-cutting to delivery. She was built in Saint-Nazaire, France, and it took three years for the 1,188ft- (362m) long vessel to be made ready for passengers. Marking the completion of construction, a traditional flag-changing ceremony took place in Marseille with Royal Caribbean’s shipyard partner, Chantiers de l’Atlantique. Video: See the Royal Caribbean’s Wonder of the Seas come to life Jason Liberty, president and CEO, Royal Caribbean Group, said: ‘Wonder of the…

DECLAN RICE still wants to join Arsenal – even though Manchester City are set to join the battle for his signature. West Ham are expecting the treble winners to bid for their £100million-plus rated captain having already rejected two bids from Arsenal. Should they accept an offer from Pep Guardiola’s side that the Gunners are unwilling to match, the decision will not be down to Rice. However, the England midfielder is aiming to stay in London and has been keen on a move to Arsenal since their interest became clear. A move to work under Guardiola is not something Rice…

Cast out by his pride, this starving lion was forced to take on a fully-grown buffalo in his desperate bid to survive. What ensued was a brutal hour-long battle leaving both animals bloodied, exhausted and with fatal wounds. Dramatic images capture the lion savagely biting and clawing at the buffalo’s mouth, the big cat’s face smeared with blood from where he’s been gored by his heavier and larger opponent’s horns. Scroll down for video The feline is tossed around in the air as he attempts to mount his adversary and is finally finished off when another buffalo arrives on the…

An Emirati sheikh has built an incredible ten-wheeled vehicle made from a combination of a military truck and a Jeep in the UAE. Sheikh Hamad bin Hamdan Al Nahyan, who is based in Abu Dhabi, shared snaps of the monster SUV on his Instagram page. Dubbed ‘Dhabiyan’, the motor is a hybrid of an Oshkosh M1075 military truck and a Jeep Wrangler. One picture of the beastly vehicle shows it side-by-side with a regular car on the motorway, emphasising its enormous size. Video: Sheikh shows off huge 10-wheel hybrid truck he had built The vehicle is 35ft long, 8ft wide…

PAIGE SPIRANAC is no stranger to teasing her steamy content on Instagram – but has now treated fans to some “never before seen” content. The golf influencer, who has 3.7million followers on Instagram, took the opportunity to promote her OnlyPaige website. Taking to her story, Paige posted a video teasing her private page. The video began with a video of a Google search for “What’s on OnlyPaige”. After a hand pressed the enter button, it then flew through a host of images, described by a caption on her story as “the never before seen pictures”. In the blink and you’ll…

FORMER tennis pro Rachel Stuhlmann has been turning heads in the City of Love this week. The stunning influencer, 26, recently revealed how she wanted to replicate golfer Paige Spiranac’s online success by bringing tennis to a new audience. Stuhlmann played professionally at the college level at the University of Missouri and received national rankings in both singles and doubles. She’s since swapped the tennis court for a career in modeling and journalism. And Stuhlmann’s ultimate goal is to promote tennis and sport in general through her posts. She currently boasts 232k followers on Instagram and this week has been…

MAJA LINDELOF left fans speechless with her latest Instagram snaps. The 29-year-old is wife of Manchester United defender Victor Lindelof. She is successful in her own right, founding fashion brand Lis Bonne Atelier and writing blogs for a glossy magazine. Maja has over 200,000 Instagram followers, and has recently been keeping them up to date with her latest holiday. The Swede is currently in Mallorca, posting some bikini pictures from the beach. She uploaded a snap of herself lying on a sun-lounger, which went down well with her hordes of followers. One wrote “Beautiful” accompanied by a heart emoji. While…

FANS were all left saying the same thing after Phil Foden was spotted alongside Salt Bae. The celebrity chef sparked controversy at the Qatar World Cup final after entering the pitch following Argentina’s shootout win over France. Salt Bae – real name Nusret Gokce – was seen snatching the Jules Rimet to perform his trademark sprinkle, biting a winner’s medal and pestering stars including Lionel Messi for a selfie. The 39-year-old subsequently landed himself a ban from other major sporting events as Fifa launched its own investigation into how he was able to gatecrash the final. Despite this, he…

Shocking pictures have emerged of a giant carpet python devouring a large black bat. In the images, captured by a homeowner in her back yard, the bat’s wings can be seen sticking from the three-metre-long reptile’s contorted jaws. According to the Sunshine Coast Daily, Mille Stoevring and her partner Shane Tuer, from Sunshine Beach, near Noosa, Queensland, were shocked to discover the reptile hanging from a tree outside, mid meal. Video: Shocking moment giant python swallows a BAT in Australia Over the course of 30 minutes, the couple were mesmerized by the slithering carnivore’s shocking eating habits. ‘We were there…

Hold tight – it’s a thrilling ride. You can now go on an eye-popping tour of Royal Caribbean’s new ship, Odyssey of the Seas, thanks to amazing newly-released POV hyperlapse footage. The camera dips, dives and swoops above and through the mega-ship, showcasing the likes of the 360-degree vista from the North Star observation capsule – which is 91m (300ft) above sea level – before hurtling towards the simulated skydiving experience, RipCord by iFly. Video: The video begins with drone footage panning over the ship, giving a bird’s eye view of the top deck’s amenities, and then gliding around the…

Created to be a personal shuttle for visitors and VIPs to the Ingolstadt plant, the Audi A3 XXL convertible started off as two standard A3 convertibles with just two doors. From there, Audi added four more doors and joined the front of one car to the rear of the other in order to accommodate eight passengers. Not surprisingly, Audi has no plans of putting the A3 XXL into production but it does give limousine companies something to think about – just imagine this thing rolling down the streets of Las Vegas! The rear axle is made swivel to reduce the…

In the backdrop of increasing tension with Ukraine, the Russian Air Force has received its seventh A-50U modernized long-range radar surveillance plane. The A-50U is a modernized version of the Soviet-era A-50, which is an AEW&C (Airborne Early Warning and Control) aircraft. It is one of several Il-76 variants developed in the 1980s outfitted with a surveillance radar system that can track up to ten targets in real-time. The Vega Group (part of the Ruselectronics Holding within the state tech corporation Rostec) and the Beriev Aircraft Company (part of Rostec’s United Aircraft Corporation) delivered the plane to the Russian Air…

Amazing video footage has been released showing the world’s largest cruise ship – Royal Caribbean’s Wonder of the Seas – completing her sea trials. And it has been announced that the 1,188ft- (362m) long behemoth will debut in the U.S and Europe next year, sailing from her home in Fort Lauderdale to the Caribbean on March 4, 2022, before making her way to Barcelona and Rome ‘to kick start the summer holidays in May’. The sea-trial footage shows Wonder of the Seas being towed out of the Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, France, where she was built – then…

A super-strong woman who lifts 205lb (14.6 stone) weights is continuing her gruelling fitness regime – despite it being over a week after her due date. Emily Breeze Watson, 31, is still practising CrossFit – a combination of weightlifting, gymnastics and intensive cardio – six days a week, even though she could go into labour at any time. But the fitness instructor, from Charlotte, North Carolina, who posts her workout photos on Instagram, has been forced to defend herself after angry strangers accused her of harming her unborn baby. Scroll down for video The super-strong 5ft 5in athlete first sparked…

Australian’s are used to all sorts of strange animal encounters, which now includes a snake attempting to eat a bat in Brisbane. In a video taken by Redland’s Snake Catcher, Tony Morrison captured the moment a huge carpet python was caught pulling a bat up a tree. While the bat was long dead, the snake appeared to struggle with it’s meal. Scroll down for video Video: Snake dangles from tree with a bat tightly in its grasp With it’s body coiled around the dead animal, the snake attempted to swallow the bat head first. But with it’s sharp talons and…

A car-mad sheikh has built the world’s biggest Hummer H1, with stairs, a toilet with a sink and a guest space with a 360-degree view spread out over two storeys. The behemoth vehicle boasts a height of 21.6ft (6.6m), a length of 46ft (14m) and a width of 20ft (6m), and it is fully drivable. Dubbed the Hummer H1 X3, the incredible monster truck was commissioned by Sheikh Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan – also known as Rainbow Sheikh – a billionaire member of the Emirati royal family, and the equivalent of the mayor of Abu-Dhabi. It will take pride…

A good cinema is part and parcel of a luxury superyacht, but acclaimed German yacht designer and naval architect Frank Neubelt has really upped the ante with his latest concept. The 230-footer, aptly christened Screen, features not one but two movie theaters onboard for second-to-none cinematic bingeing on the high seas. And that’s just the start of the lavish onboard amenities. The vessel, which was unveiled by Neubelt’s eponymous firm and German Yacht Couture at this year’s Monaco Yacht Show, boasts a generous 1,400 GT interior with just shy of 7,600 square feet of living space, along with ample outdoor…

This is the hilarious moment a man lost control of his trike and flipped it before falling off while showing off on the high-powered vehicle. The man tried desperately to hold on to the trike as it roared off across the D Park skatepark in Denver, Colorado, on October 30 in video captured by Tim Miller. But the vehicle eventually flipped, throwing its rider off and leaving him red-faced and bruised. Earlier in the video the man can be seen riding around the skatepark, showing off by purposely fishtailing on his 2022 Can-Am Ryker, which sells for around $13,000. Motorised…

Erling Haaland Lavish Mansion is one of the most luxuries house you can find around the world. Erling Haaland is one of the most sought-after footballers in the world. His incredible talent on the pitch has earned him a massive fan following, as well as a hefty paycheck. With that kind of money, it’s no surprise that he’s living a life of luxury. In this article, we take a peek into Haaland’s lavish mansion, exploring the extravagant features and amenities that make it a true celebrity home. Watch and enjoy the information about one of the finest house owned by…