Verne TroyerObituaryVerne Troyer obituaryActor best known for playing Mini-Me in the Austin Powers filmsIn his comic trilogy of Austin Powers movies, Mike Myers created and starred as several characters, including Powers, a groovy 1960s photographer-cum-secret agent, and his nemesis, the cackling but sweetly naive Dr Evil. For the second and most successful outing, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999), Dr Evil was joined by a cloned sidekick, Mini-Me, an exact replica of himself in miniature played by the actor Verne Troyer, who has died aged 49. Read More...
RelationshipsMore and more women are discovering after years of marriage to men, and having had children, that they are lesbians. Were they always – or is sexuality more fluid?For Carren Strock, the revelation came when she was 44. She had met her husband – "a terrific guy, very sweet" – at high school when she was 16, had been married to him for 25 years, had two dearly loved children, and what she describes as a " Read More...
BarcelonaThe teenage sensation missed his Spain debut because of a panic attack but hopes to offer youngsters the type of support he received from Ibrahimovic, Henry and others
The plane had started to taxi towards the runway when Bojan Krkic told the flight attendant he was sorry, he couldn’t travel. It was July 2014, he was 23 and he had signed for Stoke for €1.8m, finally severing ties with Barcelona, his “home” where he became the youngest player in their history and had worked to overcome the anxiety attacks that conditioned his career. Read More...