FamilyKelly Knievel is proud of his daredevil father, who died in 2007. But it wasn't always easy growing up in the shadow of such a powerful personality. He talks about the family's leap from rags to riches – and back againKelly Knievel's first motorcycle ride was as a day-old newborn in 1960, harnessed to his father Robert's back. According to family folklore, the then 22-year-old Robert – soon to be reinvented as fearless stunt-rider Evel Knievel – fishtailed his brand new Harley-Davidson returning home to the family trailer in Butte, Montana, from the maternity ward. Read More...
Osama bin Laden's death – how the US papers reacted, in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Front pages from the major American newspapers after al-Qaida leader's killing in Pakistan by special forces Mon 2 May 2011 14.40 BST First published on Mon 2 May 2011 14.40 BST New York Post Photograph: -
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Women This article is more than 4 years old‘I had a huge swelling’: why my life as a female cyclist led to vulva surgeryThis article is more than 4 years oldHannah DinesThere needs to be serious, urgent research into better saddles for female cyclists, says Hannah Dines, who has endured years of pain and swelling caused by friction as she rides
The plastic surgeon, in that particularly endearing way of surgeons, was trying to reassure me that although he had never operated on an endurance cyclist before, he had seen “presentations” like mine. Read More...