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A Swiss study reveals that children’s physical activity is strongly influenced by their parents’ habits.
Using movement sensors, researchers found that active parents tend to have more active children, though the effect is smaller in magnitude.
The influence can last for years, highlighting parents as key role models in promoting healthier lifestyles.

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Filipino-American queens 🇵🇭🇺🇸 are dominating the conversation 👑✨

Bea is a strong favorite—but the crown is still up for grabs.

Do you think she’ll win it all? 👀🔥



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Gorgeous with Captivating Beauty you're truly Admirable 💖

The road to the crown gets even tougher. 👑✨

Here’s the format for Miss Universe Philippines 2026:

• Top 30 Semifinalists
• Top 15 Semifinalists
• Top 7 Finalists
• 1 Miss Universe Philippines 2026 Winner

Who do you think will survive every cut and emerge as the next Filipina queen bound for the Universe?





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Friendster back after 10 years

On friendster.com, the social networking platform said users will be able to add friends by tapping their phones together.

"No 'suggested strangers' — your network is built from real connections," Friendster said.

There will also be no ads, no algorithms, or spam from dummy accounts.

The social networking platform also said it won't sell its users' data.

The Friendster app, however, is currently only available for Apple (iOs) users.

Friendster, one of the world's first social media platforms, shut down its social networking services in 2011, admitting that “it’s a Facebook world.”

It re-launched a year later as a social entertainment site where users will be able to play games and listen to music.

But in 2015, it announced that it would take a “break and pause” its services, citing the “evolving landscape in our challenging industry.”

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We are down to the final two at the Mutua Madrid Open. Can the underdog Marta Kostyuk overcome Mirra Andreeva in the Madrid final? We make the case for both players.

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Andreeva remains on track for a Madrid sweep after reaching the doubles final with Shnaider
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Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider
In a final that few would have predicated at the start of the tournament, ninth-seeded Mirra Andreeva
will take on 26th-seeded Marta Kostyuk
in the Mutua Madrid Open championship match on Saturday (5 p.m. local, 4 p.m. BST, 11 a.m. EST).

It's been a magical week, and a magical Clay-
Clay-Court swing, for Andreeva, who turned 19 on Wednesday. She defeated red-hot Hailey Baptiste
6-4, 7-6 (8) in the semifinals on Friday, showing a great deal of confidence and resilience in a second set that she nearly let slip away.

As for Kostyuk, it was a tale of three acts in her semifinal against Anastasia Potapova She dominated the first set, looked overmatched and uncompetitive in the second, and then came right back with an emphatic third set for the unconventional 6-2, 1-6, 6-1 win.

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10 Habits That Keep You Young ✨🌿💧😊💪😴

1️⃣ Sleep before 11 PM 🌙
2️⃣ Drink lemon water daily 🍋
3️⃣ Walk 20 mins/day 🚶‍♂️
4️⃣ Avoid ultra-processed foods ❌
5️⃣ No eating 2–3 hrs before bed ⏰
6️⃣ Add turmeric & ginger 🌿
7️⃣ Eat leafy greens 🥬
8️⃣ Protect skin from sun ☀️
9️⃣ Limit sun exposure (30 mins) ⏳
🔟 Strength train 2–3x/week 🏋️‍♂️

Stay consistent = Stay young 💯

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A major legal shift in England and Wales.
Women will no longer face criminal prosecution for ending their own pregnancies — ending decades of outdated laws that treated healthcare as a crime.
This change removes the threat of police investigations, charges, and even prison sentences.

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In 2023, a Brazilian fortune teller told a 27-year-old woman she had days to live, then gave her a chocolate.

Shortly after eating the chocolate, Fernanda Pinto developed severe symptoms including dizziness, blurred vision, vomiting, and foaming at the mouth.

By the following morning, she was dead.

Toxicology later confirmed lethal doses of powerful pesticides within her system. The pesticides had been concealed within the chocolate she had ate.

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MADRID — Marta Kostyuk is having herself a month.

Two weeks ago, she won her first title in three years, at the WTA 250 Rouen Open in France. On Saturday, she will play for the biggest one of her career, when she meets Mirra Andreeva in the Madrid Open final. It is Kostyuk’s first WTA 1000 title tilt, a year on from a tempestuous quarterfinal in the Spanish capital against world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka.

Kostyuk lost that match 7-6(4), 7-6(7), but it turned with Sabalenka serving down 5-4 in the second-set tiebreak. She missed a first serve, with rain falling. She then approached chair umpire Jenny Zhang, who told her to continue. Sabalenka threw the ball up, caught it, and went to sit on her bench. Zhang explained to Kostyuk that Sabalenka would then get a first serve when the match resumed, but Sabalenka had been the one who stopped it, not the umpire. Kostyuk was furious. The rain stopped. Sabalenka won.

There was no handshake at the end of that match, and not because of the serve acrimony. Kostyuk, and the other players from Ukraine on the WTA Tour, do not shake hands with players from Russia and Belarus. They have not done so since Russia, with assistance from Belarus, invaded Ukraine in 2022.

The same will be true of Kostyuk’s final against Andreeva, and it was true of the player Kostyuk beat to get there: Anastasia Potapova, who switched nationality to Austria last year. Russian and Belarusian players are not currently allowed to play under their own flags.

Kostyuk named one exception to her policy, but she said that Potapova’s switch in nationality, and others like it, did not change her sentiments.

“The only person that I shake hands with is Daria Kasatkina, because she didn’t just change her passport, she also openly said that she doesn’t support the war,” she said in a news conference ahead of her 6-2, 1-6, 6-1 win over Potapova, who reached the semifinals after entering as a lucky loser, thanks to Madison Keys’ withdrawal due to illness.

“So this is why me and other girls made the decision to shake hands with her, purely out of respect.

“There have been multiple players who have changed their nationality, but none of them ever voiced anything against war or, you know, anything to support Ukrainians. So, for me, that doesn’t change.”

When asked about her change of nationality during a news conference at January’s Australian Open, Potapova said that it had been in the works for some time, that she has been living in Vienna, Austria for a while, and considers it her “second home.”

“Now it’s my first home,” she said. She did not say whether her switch had anything to do with Russia’s politics.

Kasatkina, who started representing Australia in 2025, described the war as a “full-blown nightmare” in a series of interviews with Russian blogger Vitya Kravchenko, in which she also came out publicly. At the 2025 Charleston Open, she told reporters that defecting from Russia was necessary if she wanted to be herself.

Like several other players from Ukraine, Kostyuk’s family is still there, including her mother, who moved back two years ago after staying with Kostyuk in France for a time

Kostyuk, 23, spent the first year of the war trying to win on behalf of her country and to bring inspiration to her fellow citizens. Eventually, that burden became too heavy, and she has tried to separate tennis from the war, but only so much. When she won the title in Rouen over another player from Ukraine, Veronika Podrez, she gave an emotional speech about the challenges that players from her country faced in recent years.

She will face a huge challenge in Andreeva, the 19-year-old star who lives in France. Kostyuk’s past finals against native Russians and Belarusians at the top of the WTA Tour rankings have not gone well. She lost to Elena Rybakina at the Stuttgart Tennis Grand Prix in 2024, and to Sabalenka at the Brisbane International in January.

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Reports claim that The Walt Disney Company has offered Johnny Depp a deal worth $301 million along with an apology to reprise his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.

However, there is no official confirmation from Disney or Depp regarding this offer so far.





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