6 h. ago Need for speed: how sport’s risk takers recognise deadly danger and do it anyway | Emma John

In a stable and affluent society, it is possible to declare that ‘life is for living’ through pursuits that shorten your odds of dyingLast year I visited St Moritz’s infamous Cresta Run. You know the one – the vertiginous skeleton course that has killed a number of its participants and maimed many more. I was with a group of friends who were attempting it for the first time, and who quickly became addicted to the adrenaline fix. I stubbornly refused to even contemplate it.It’s not just that my mates are braver than me – they are – but they’re all decent athletes, cricketers, hockey players, marathon runners and Channel swimmers. They have rapid reflexes and hand-eye coordination: I barely have a sense of where my arms and legs end. There are endless ways to hurt yourself on a crushingly heavy toboggan with razor-sharp runners that’s hurtling at 50mph between sheer walls of solid ice, and if anyone was going to slice off a finger or break their head landing upside down, it was me. Co...

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4 d. ago Runner left covered in blood after being attacked by buzzard terrorising village

Tomas Ryan, 35, was attacked four times by the buzzard with the bird leaving him with cuts to his face, head and ear after it launched at him with its razor-sharp talons

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4 d. ago Dad 'sliced to death' by kids' toy on way to visit daughter in gruesome accident

Brazilian Auriel Missael Henrique, 41, was riding on a motorbike to see his daughter when he was killed by a razor sharp piece of string from a 'fighting kite' dangling across the roadway

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5 d. ago Only those with razor sharp vision can spot tiny ball on busy beach in 3 seconds

You'll need 'impressive observational skills', great spatial awareness, and speedy reactions to crack this baffling beach-themed brainteaser in just three seconds or less

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1 week ago 'You're a danger to your children': Shocking comment a doctor made to SARAH VINE after the trials of motherhood and marriage left her balding, struggling to shift the baby weight and full of self

I fell for Michael Gove's modesty, the fact that his physical bumbling was in such contrast to his razor-sharp brain and his wit: there is no funnier person in the room.

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2 w. ago Stick: Owen Wilson’s charmingly funny golf drama is as feelgood as Ted Lasso

It’s easy to forget the Hollywood star is also an Oscar-nominated writer and highly subtle actor. He’s perfect in this gentle, humane tale of a washed-up sportsman trying to regain his mojo as a mentorGolf is – apologies to fans, the ground is gonna get a little rough – inert material for TV and film. It’s not explosively combative like say football, either American or actual. In golf, players interact with the environment, not each other. There is no time pressure. Physical adjustments are minute, the airborne ball impossible to see. For casual spectators, the experience mostly amounts to watching a middle-aged man shuffle above a tiny ball, like an emperor penguin sitting on an egg. The sound of even a world-beating putt is a soft plop.However, a lack of basic knowledge brought me late to Friday Night Lights, a show that became one of my favourites. I’d like to avoid making that mistake with Stick (Apple TV+, from Wednesday 4 June), so let’s see. Wisely, the show isn’t aiming at F...

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2 w. ago Warning over parking at busy beach as locals demand 'tow them away'

Enforcement officers are due to be out and about over the bank holiday weekend

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2 w. ago Can you spot the hidden animal in this banana brainteaser? Only high IQs can solve it

This brainteaser isn't for the average Joe, and only those with a high IQ will be to solve it in less than 15 seconds - but if you're confident you've got razor-sharp vision, you should be able to solve this in a matter of seconds.

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3 w. ago Only those with razor sharp vision can spot rogue 8881 among 8831s

Another tricky puzzle is leaving Brits scratching their heads as they try to spot the number 8881 in a sea of 8831s - but can you find the odd one out in 12 seconds?

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3 w. ago Teen arrested after boy, 16, died in Irvine Beach 'stabbing'

The arrest comes after the tragic death of 16-year-old boy Kayden Moy, from East Kilbride, after a stabbing took place at a busy beach-side gathering over the weekend

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last month Overcompensating review – an exquisite frat bro orgy of shirt

This college comedy follows a heart throb desperately trying to be ‘totally not gay’. But beneath the razor sharp jokes is a schmaltzy show that tugs at the heartstringsIn the pandemic, Benito Skinner became internet famous for his camply unhinged impressions of celebrities, reality stars and LA types: his roster includes a devil-worshipping Kris Jenner, Billie Eilish at the beach and a twitching, gurgling Timothée Chalamet. By then, the comedian had been uploading videos for years. A clip from 2019 titled Live Footage of Me in the Closet sees Skinner comb his fringe forward, don an Abercrombie tee and travel back to the late 00s to resurrect his teenage self, a boy denying his love for Gossip Girl while repeatedly insisting he’s “not gay” until the screen erupts into a manic collage of Lady Gaga dance routines, Google results for “daniel radcliffe equus naked” and the iTunes page for Glee: The Music, Volume 1.Six years on, Skinner is reprising the role. Overcompensating, an eight-p...

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