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0 shares 15 View comments So, Boris Johnson had a furious row with Ken Livingstone in a lift… Well, I suppose it beats looking at the floor, and the wall, and the ceiling and anywhere else you can think of it an attempt to avoid eye-contact with any of the other people squeezed into the same little box, which is how I spend most lift journeys. Of course, sticklers for etiquette may think Boris was taking matters a tad too far by calling Red Ken ‘a f***ing liar’. ‘Hypocrite’ would surely have sufficed. War of words: An outraged Boris Johnson branded Ken Livingstone a 'liar' while discussing their taxes during the live radio session Livingstone, after all, is a dyed-in-the-wool socialist who uses a limited company to shelter his media income and minimize his tax exposure. Indeed, the argument began when, in an attempt to deflect criticism of his blatant double standards, Ken claimed (wrongly, as it transpires)that Johnson did the same thing. Livingstone’s c

Actress Goldie Hawn is fit and fabulous at 67, thanks to a healthy diet and regular exercise. "I do try to do some form of exercise four days a week," Hawn told the January 2013 issue of Prevention . "At home in California, I'll bike up the mountain, or I'll do Pilates or spin. And I do eat a lot of greens. I eat healthy, but I'm not a vegetarian." Like other attractive older women , Goldie says a proper diet, regular workouts and a positive attitude are the secrets to looking and feeling great. Hawn says daily meditation is one of her anti-aging beauty secrets. "You'll see the benefits of meditation aren't just in your head," says Goldie, whose gorgeous daughter, actress Kate Hudson , is equally fit and healthy. "They're as physiological as the benefits of exercise on your muscles." Hawn, who has practicing meditation since the 1970s, says everyone can benefit from daily meditation, even for short blocks of two to five m

0 shares 26 View comments With a few fences to go in the Grand National the runners and riders unexpectedly swerved and ran round the side of a fence instead of jumping over it. For a second or two I couldn’t work out why on earth they had taken this unlikely detour … And then I saw the black screens that had been erected on the racetrack just in front of the by-passed fence and realized that they concealed an injured, or more likely dead horse. Suddenly, I wasn’t half so interested in the race. Nor will anyone be interested in the Grand National, or any other steeplechase, come to that, if things keep going the way they are. Five horses killed at Cheltenham last month, now three more at the Aintree meeting. As a friend of mine observed today: we call bullfighting a barbaric sport – why is racing any better? Fatal fall: AP McCoy and Synchronised fall after the sixth fence. The horse had to be put down on the course Well, I’m no fan of bullfighting. But actually,

Suicide jumper kills a 5-year-old girl after he fell to his death in South Korean. Yahoo News reports May 23 that police confirmed a suicidal man killed a young girl who was walking with her parents outside an apartment building Wednesday. The jumper died immediately after falling from the eleventh floor of the building. The girl was left with severe brain damage and broken bones then died soon thereafter. Details of the tragedy are scant due to an investigation being conducted. It's unclear why the man jumped to his death. No suicide note was left behind. The 5-year-old girl was tragically killed while someone else made the decision to end his life. The report went on to note that South Korea has the world's highest suicide rate.

0 shares 17 View comments Saints day: St George's Day is celebrated on 23rd April, but to seemingly little fanfare Dear St George, Happy saint’s day - hope you have a good one! True, you won’t get a proper celebration like your pals Andrew, David and Patrick. I mean, you’re probably not too jealous of Andy being toasted by a bunch of belligerently nationalistic Scots, or Dave being commemorated by Welshmen with daffodils and leeks pinned to their rugby shirts. But Paddy’s another matter. He’s got the whole world holding marches, dyeing their beer green and pretending that they’re Irish. You’d have to be a saint not to be, well, green with envy at that. Oh, yes, of course, you ARE a saint. But still, you know what I mean. It’s just your rotten luck that you’re the patron saint of a country that’s dying of self-hatred and shame. Actually, let me rephrase that … You’re the patron saint of a country whose governing elite are dying of self-hatred and shame. I don’t

Former Laker dies at 72 : Flynn Robinson, also known as “Instant Offense” on the 1971-72 served Lakers team that brought Los Angeles its first NBA title, died Thursday. He was 72. Flynn’s wife, Nancy Pitts-Robinson, told the Lakers he died Thursday at Keck Hospital in Los Angeles. Called “Mr. Instant Point” by late Lakers broadcaster Chick Hearn, the 6-foot-1 Robinson averaged 9.9 points and 2.2 assists in 64 games in 1971-72, helping the Lakers win an NBA-record 33 consecutive games and the franchise’s first title in Los Angeles. “We are very sad to hear of the passing of Flynn Robinson,” said Jeanie Buss, the Lakers’ executive vice president of business operations. “Flynn played an important role on the 1971-72 Lakers team.” Robinson averaged 14 points per game during his professional career. He was an All-Star with the Milwaukee Bucks during the 1969-1970 season and during his eight years in the NBA also played for the Cincinnati Royals, Chicago Bulls and Baltimore Bull

30 View comments Proven drugs cheats Dwain Chambers and David Millar are free to compete for Great Britain at London 2012. The Court of Arbitration in Sport has found against the British Olympic Association, who wanted to bar them from the Olympic Games for life. Good. I’m delighted by the verdict. It’s the only fair, legal and above all moral decision the court could possibly have made. And it’s simply self-righteous nonsense to argue that the ban against the two men should have been allowed to stand. Winner: The Court of Arbitration for Sport has overturned the BOA's ban on sprinter Dwain Chambers competing for team GB Consider the facts. Consider, above all, the BOA’s opponents in court. For this wasn’t a case of a sporting body waging a brave fight against unscrupulous sportsmen or their greedy agents. No, the BOA were taking on the World Anti-Doping Agency, the body whose sole mission is to rid sport of illegal, performance-enhancing drugs.   More... British