When Mary Beckman found herself single after the death of her longtime partner in 2010, her friends eventually encouraged her to set up a profile on Match.com, a popular dating site (via the Daily Mail). Though she might have been reluctant to do so, she established an account with the site that uses the slogan “start something great” to tempt users to get matched with the millions of potential matches who use the service.
Literacy is essential no matter what career path you choose. Photo / NZME
Low literacy rates don’t just impact New Zealand’s schoolchildren.
The flow-on effect bleeds into adulthood, affecting their university and ultimately career prospects.
“If you want to go to university, clearly you have to be able to read and write at a high level,” Dubby Henry, a New Zealand Herald education reporter, tells the Front Page podcast.
“And we want everyone to be able to do that so all different sectors of society can be represented in fields like medicine and law.
Nick Cannon after testing positive for COVID-19 made a surprise return to The Masked Singer on Wednesday after competing as Bulldog on the hit Fox show.
The 40-year-old host sang the 1983 New Edition song Candy Girl after dedicating his performance to fill-in guest host Niecy Nash, 51.
Niecy shocked panelists Robin Thicke, Jenny McCarthy, Ken Jeong and Nicole Scherzinger by announcing that she was discounting their vote and would decide herself who was going to be unmasked during the Group B Finals.
Bryan and Sarah Baeumler are impressively open about everything it took to make their dream of running a luxury resort in the Bahamas come true. In fact, we even know how much the Baeumlers really spent on HGTV’s “Renovation Island.” Hence why fans are so flummoxed by the couple’s silence on what happened to their boat. As Meaww points out, during Season 2, Bryan was told his boat had sunk despite being docked on the shore.
A TikTok user has gone viral after starting a trend that involves eating papaya seeds in a bizarre effort to help pass any parasites that might be in your body.
The US-based woman, known only as Ramena, filmed herself eating spoonfuls of the seeds after watchin a video which claimed that they are a natural antiparasitic.
Ramena, who has 193,100 followers on TikTok, then decided to sample the seeds for herself, in a bid to find out if she had ‘any bugs in my butt’ – a process that she documented for her fans on the social media platform, sparking a slew of questions and comments about the quirky process.