FISH TRADER’S MURDER RAPS
Irish star gets an Extraordinary role in new sci-fi show
BRAZILIAN police are planning to indict a Colombian fish trader over last year’s killings of Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips.
Ruben Dario da Silva Villar provided the ammunition to kill the pair, police said. He denies the claims. Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira has confessed that he shot Phillips and Pereira.
SHOT DEAD: Dom
DIAGNOSED with cancer in his eyes, Ben had them both removed at the age of just three.
But the American went on to become a whizz at playing football, skateboarding and riding a bike.
He also taught himself to live like a dolphin, using echolocation from the age of five – he would work out distances using clicking tongue noises and listening to how the sound bounced off objects to navigate his way around.
Dubbed one of the world’s best at the skill, Ben died a week before turning 17 in 2009 when his cancer returned.
WHILE we’re all waiting for someone with ★
the power to tackle the cost-of-living crisis, the producers of Killing Eve have cooked up another must-see telly show in the shape of Disney+ series Extraordinary.
Starting today, it’s set in a world where everyone develops a superpower when they turn 18 — apart from lead character Jen, played by Cork actress Mairead Tyers. Derry Girls star Siobhan McSweeney plays her mum.
But incredible abilities exist outside fiction ★
too. In fact, history has plenty of people who have been shown to hold real-life superpowers, as discovers…
KIM CARR
WHO needs food and water when you have the protection of Hindu goddess Amba?
Not this Indian monk, who claimed to have stopped eating and drinking in 1940 and died in 2020 at the ripe old age of 90.
Studies found the hermit, who lived in a cave, was able to create urine in his bladder despite being under observation with no liquids or food for 10 days — something he put down to his connection with the spirit of strength.
SO impressive are his talents that the extreme athlete landed his own TV show with Holly Willoughby last year.
But none of the celebs taking part could match the Dutchman’s ability to sustain his own body temperature in freezing climates.
Hiking up Mount Everest in nothing
DU Spi 60his as Hol scr the effe M equ more than a pair o shorts earned Wi the nickname The Iceman.
And his ‘Method has seen the 63-year-old turn his hand to being a motivational speaker, encouraging us mere mortals to use breathing techniques to tackle diseases.