Supergran Mary goes skydiving for her 90th birthday
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Self-confessed &quot;old bird&quot; Mary Armstrong has gone up in the estimations of an animal charity, after plummeting 12,000 feet (3,650 metres) down to earth by parachute at the ripe old age of 90.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. - Santa Claus can build toys, shimmy down a chimney and harness flying reindeer. But one thing he can't do any more is skydive near Disneyland.
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It may come as something of a shock to generations of men across the globe, but Sophia Loren, the very paragon of sultry Latin beauty, celebrates her 70th birthday on Monday.
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Santa Claus can build toys, shimmy down a chimney and harness flying reindeer. But one thing he can't do any more is skydive near Disneyland.
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Zohra Sehgal is 92 years old. But age doesn't deter this lively lady from featuring in films and spreading her graceful charm.
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Ellen MacArthur enters the new year boosted by the best day so far of her round-the-world attempt.
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A SPECIAL mass has been held to celebrate the 100th birthday of Portsmouth's oldest nun.
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altitude without the heart-stopping barrel rolls that vexed the craft&#39;s qualifying flight on Wednesday. world altitude record for a fixed-wing aircraft, set in 1963 by the experimental X-15 rocket plane.
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The world's first female astronaut Valentina Tereshkova, marking her 70th birthday on Tuesday, says she still dreams of flying to Mars -- even on a one-way ticket.
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The Australian superstar finds herself in the Guinness Book.
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A German paragliding champion survives being sucked into a thunderstorm that pulled her higher than Mount Everest.
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SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. -- There was a lengthy unfolding to this 62d US Women's Open, one that extended far beyond the 23 holes of golf yesterday or the 54 in two days. Indeed, the essence of Cristie Kerr's dream was more than 20 years in the making.
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She's a climber with heart, and it's not even her own.
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PORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- Richard Sutter was pleasantly astonished when he learned last month that the country's newest and cheapest airline, Skybus Airlines, would charge him just $10 to fly him here from Ohio so he could attend his grandmother's 90th birthday this weekend.
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ATHENS : Russia&#39;s Yelena Slesarenko cleared an Olympic record height of 2.06 metres to take the Olympic Games women&#39;s high jump here.
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A 46-year-old woman is rescued two days after her car plunges down a Peak District embankment.
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Ellen MacArthur is to be made a dame as she gets a hero's welcome after sailing around the world solo in record time.