Many people dream of becoming parents one day. Sadly, not everyone succeeds in becoming one because of one reason or another. Sometimes, they simply don’t get lucky enough to find the person they would want to share that special role with. Other times, no matter how hard they try, couples fail at getting pregnant.
A woman from Serbia named Atifa, spent most of her life trying to conceive. Believe it or not, she never stopped dreaming, and finally, her wish came true when she reached 60 years old.
All those fertilization treatments and the physical and emotional pain she was forced to go through finally paid off.
Baby Alina was born healthy, despite her mother’s age.
When the little one was welcomed into the world, everything fell into place. Or at least that’s what Atifa thought.
Unfortunately, the very moment this woman’s husband heard the baby cry, he told her that he was way too old to be taking care of a child. He couldn’t imagine spending his days next to a crying baby so he left the home.
When asked why he made such a heartbreaking decision, he said, “She got what she wanted, now she is happy,” referring to his wife of many years.
The father also claimed that he wasn’t in good health in order to be able to raise a child. Atifa also suffers from different medical conditions such as high blood pressure, but she would never abandon her child.
What is most, the father, Sherif, won’t even give his daughter his last name and doesn’t want to recognize her as his own, which is truly heartbreaking having in mind the number of years they waited to have a child.
“Whatever happens, whether Serif stays or leaves, I will raise Alina as best I can. I will live only for her. I know it won’t be easy, but I think there are a lot of people who will want to help me,” Atifa says.
We hope these mother and daughter would have the life they deserve.
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On her way to work, a woman named Malissa Sergent Lewis spotted something that stole her attention.
As she was running late to the elementary school in Kentucky where she works, she decided to take a shortcut through a back road. Little did she know that her decision would help save the life of an innocent creature. She found herself in the right place, at the right time and was willing to step in for an animal in need.
“I saw this trash bag in the road, and I thought to myself, ‘Did I just see that bag move?’ The closer I got, I realized it was moving,” she said speaking to The Dodo. “I could hardly wrap my mind around that. Something was alive in that bag, and I just knew I had to get whatever it was out.”
The video she took shows the bag moving, and it’s a devastating thing to see, knowing someone placed an animal inside and just left it there to suffocate and die.
Although she had no idea what sort of animal could be inside, she still decided to lend a helping hand and give it a chance to live. Risking her own safety, Malissa got out of her vehicle and approached the bag.
“The bag was tied off in a knot, so I carefully tore a corner and looked inside,” she said. “It was a puppy. And he sure was glad to see me. As soon as I opened it up, and he saw light, he just started wagging his tail. He knew he was OK. I couldn’t believe it.”
She took the sweet puppy to the vet’s as she wanted to make sure he was alright and didn’t suffer any injuries while tied in the bag. He even had a collar which made it obvious he was someone’s pet.
Thankfully, the puppy was perfectly healthy.
Authorities spread the story around hoping someone would come forward with any information on who the owner might be. They weren’t certain whether it was the owner who dumped the puppy or it was perhaps stolen and then placed inside that bag. But no matter who did it, if tracked down they will be charged with animal cruelty.
“Who could do something like that to any animal? I don’t care who you are; everybody loves puppies,” she said. “It’s a real coldhearted person to put an animal, any animal, in a garbage bag and dump it on the side of the road. They had bad, bad intentions doing that.”
The best thing that came out of this situation is that the puppy found his forever home with his savior. Yes, Malissa fell in love with the little boy and she couldn’t imagine someone else adopting him.
Her family was so glad she helped him and now gave him a home. Malissa’s sons say how they love Hefty (that is how they named him) and enjoy spending time with him.
“We all love the puppy,” Lewis said. “He’s going to be loved, and have a good home with us. I’m just glad I was in the right place at the right time to save him. That’s what it was.”
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McDonald’s Church Street branch in Liverpool imposed a ban which prevents people under the age of 18 from entering the place after 5 p.m. As this ban is just temporary, this will certainly help the employees who have been repeatedly subjected to abuse.
The ban comes as a result of the fast-food restaurant to reduce instances of anti-social behavior, which have been very frequent during the past period.
“Over recent weeks, we have seen an increase in the number of incidents of anti-social behavior in the area with our people being subjected to verbal and physical abuse. We have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to crime and anti-social behavior, and have temporarily restricted restaurant access to U18s from 5 pm. This decision was not taken lightly and we are working closely with the police to find a resolution and help reduce these incidents,” a spokesperson for the company stated.
As most of the McDonald’s restaurants in the UK offer a 24-hour service, which makes them a popular places for youngsters who are outside during the night, the staff has witnessed a number of anti-social behavior among the customers and say they have a hard time preventing it from taking place.
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The fast-food giant is planning on closing a number of places, around 36,000 throughout the world, to be exact. Around 13,000 of them are placed in the UK.
On top of this, the company made a decision to increase the prices of some the products it offers, such as the cheeseburger, which used to cost 99p and whose price increased to 1.19 pounds.
Company representatives claim that the fast-food chain is going through some turbulent times, and the inflation only adds to the issue.
“As I was leaving the security guard stopped a man he believed to be a teenager and told him they weren’t allowing people under 18 into the restaurant after 5 pm without an adult with them. The man told the security guard he was in his 20s so he apologized and explained that the new company policy meant he couldn’t let groups of teens in on their own,” a customer was reported to have said.
The Chief Executive Officer for McDonald’s UK & Ireland, Alistair Macrow, said, “At times like this, we know that providing great value is important. Since we opened in the UK in 1974, we’ve committed to offering great tasting food at affordable prices, and that commitment will not change. But today’s pressures mean, like many, we’re having to make some tough choices about our prices. This summer, our restaurants will be adding between 10p and 20p to a number of the menu items impact most by inflation. From today, we’ll be increasing the price of our cheeseburger for the first time in over 14 years, taking it from 99p to 1.19 pounds. Some prices remain unaffected, and some will continue to vary across our restaurants.”
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He was born in Canada on December 22, 1970, but his family soon moved to Houston, Texas.
As a young child and during his teenage years, Cruz wasn’t one of the popular kids. Instead, he was interested in fields which made others dub him a nerd. Among the rest, he was a member of the Constitutional Corroborators – a five-strong “unit” of high-achieving, politically-minded students, was involved in the drama club and the public speaking team.
Soon after, however, he developed a more likable personality, got rid of the glasses, and got involved into sports.
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One of the teachers at Second Baptist School, Elsa Jean Looser, who taught English and drama, described the Senator as a “dream student” interested in history and government.
“We all knew he had political ambitions simply because of the direction he was taking. He wanted to do well in all his classes, which he did, he wanted to go to fine schools, he wanted to build a good resumé,” Looser shared with The Guardian.
“He was a tremendous debater. His whole life was just being directed that way. There was no question he was aspiring to be a lawyer and then move into the political arena,” she added.
“He gets bad press, which is so sad because he’s just doing what he said he would do.”
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After earning an undergraduate degree from Princeton University, Cruz earned a law degree at Harvard Law School and became a clerk for Chief Justice Rehnquist, before moving to work in private practice.
Being interested in politics ever since he was still young, Cruz embarked on a journey into that world as a policy advisor in the George W. Bush administration before serving as Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 to 2008.
While working on Bush’s presidential campaign in Austin, Texas, Cruz met his future wife, Heidi, who recalled him being “super-smart,” “really funny,” and looking like “a 1950s movie star.”
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“It was love at first sight,” she added, speaking to The Atlantic.
After some time, he gathered the courage to ask her out and they went to a bar named The Bitter End. He wanted to know everything about her, which she found a bit awkward at the time.
“I found Ted very compelling,” Heidi said.
“He is a warm person, he’s friendly, he is someone who’s clearly smart, and an incredibly sharp mind, very articulate, but he’s also a guy that likes to have fun.
“We sat down and just had a really, really in-depth, long conversation,” she added. “He wanted to know all about my family, our background — what my interests and goals were.”
He then asked her about her 10-year-plan and 20-year-plan.
The two married just a year and a half later, and they are still together. The couple has two children together, daughters Caroline Camille Cruz and Catherine Christiane Cruz.
At one point in their life, they worked at different places. Cruz became the solicitor general of Texas in 2003 and moved to Austin, Texas, while Heidi remained in Washington. They seemed to be doing fine at first, but shortly after, they both realized that long-distant relationship didn’t fit either of them.
“And then it wasn’t just that,” Heidi said of that period. “It was, like, all of this – like, ‘Why am I here? And by the way, I gave up living where my family is to come here, so that I could sit on [the] 290 freeway every week to go work for a company that’s actually headquartered in New York, and I could be in headquarters if I wasn’t here with you.’”
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Even today, these two are very much in love with one another. “Ted is the easiest person to live with. He’s very even-tempered. He’s totally unflappable. He never gets mad. And you’ve seen that publicly. There have been a lot of names that Ted has been called. There are a lot of things that his Senate colleagues have said about him. It’s because they feel threatened by the truth that has been his political career, and by what he is trying to do. Ted never responds in kind.”
According to Celebrity Net Worth, Ted Cruz has a net worth of around $4 million
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In matters of taste, there can be no disputes. This maxim holds so much truth in itself, because the fact is that what is considered beautiful by some can be easily found unattractive by others.
When a Russian couple shared photos of their special day on the social media, little did they know that those photos would go viral for reasons they never thought of. The physical appearance of the bride was found funny by many, especially because she was quite chubby and relatively bigger than the groom. Soon after, the internet was flooded with negative comments about the couple and they became an object of ridicule and mockery.
Only few people close to the couple shared their congratulations and stood by their side.
There were lots of mean comments. Some even claimed that the groom was marrying the woman because she was probably rich and he loved her for her money, which was far from the truth.
This unfortunate event took place around six years ago, and despite all those years, the photos still get reshared every now and then and the comments are still as mean as when the photos first emerged on the social media.
Recently, a reported stumbled upon the viral photo of the couple and decided to do some research in order to learn if they are still together.
What he discovered was that the couple is still very much in love as day one. What shocked him, however, was the incredible transformation the woman has undergone during the years since her photo went viral and she was dubbed “the ugliest bride in the world.”
Today, it is very hard to tell that she is the same woman the internet mocked for the way she looked. She’s totally unrecognizable.
Not only she lost a significant amount of weight, but she changed her hairstyle and the way she dresses.
How many people can say they have undergone through such a drastic change in their life? Not many, I guess. It truly takes and incredible amount of devotion to be able to achieve something like that.
No one really knows what triggered the urge for the change. After seeing the new photos, many claim it was the pressure from the social media that forced the woman to lose weight although her husband loved her the way she was.
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The power of prayer should never be underestimated. Even during the toughest of times when we believe that there is no way out, the trust that God has our back can do wonders.
Hayley Oliveri and her husband Nathaniel witnessed a miracle taking place right in front of their eyes because they never lost faith that things would get right.
When their baby daughter Gabriella was born, they were over the moon. Their hearts were filled with joy and they couldn’t wait to hold their bundle of joy in their arms.
“When Hayley was in labor, the nurses kept commenting on how peaceful we were — they weren’t used to that. And then I would pray for her, and they definitely weren’t used to that,” Nathaniel said.
Baby Gabriella looked perfectly healthy. Unfortunately, just 30 minutes into the world, she suddenly experienced breathing problems and doctors needed to put her on oxygen support.
Sadly, things didn’t look bright. In order to help maintain the necessary oxygen levels, Gabriella needed to be sedated and intubated. But just as they did that, her heart stopped.
Doctors and nurses feared for the girl’s life and thought they lost her, but her parents stayed calm. Instead of crying and panicking, Hayley and Nathaniel held hands and united in prayer while doctors performed CPR on their girl. Their midwife Amy Plowman prayed along with them.
At that moment, Hayley claimed she had a vision of a figure that resembled Jesus Christ entering the room. She could clearly see Him placing his hand on Gabriella’s tiny body. What followed stunned everyone in the room. The baby girl regained her pulse and started breathing again.
These parents’ prayers were answered. After four long minutes, Gabriella was there again, and she was there to stay with her mom and dad who never lost hope nor faith.
Things like this are hard to be explained by the scientists. Even they dub them miracles.
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Planet Earth, the only planet we can ever call home is facing a number of issues that can easily change the way we live. Despite global warming, which is something very real and affecting all living creatures, what concerns the scientist is that our planet seems to be spinning faster than ever before.
Does this mean that the global clocks would have to be sped up?
The most recent data shows that the Earth completed an entire rotation of 1.59 milliseconds under 24 hours and this raised red flags.
“This would be required to keep civil time—which is based on the super-steady beat of atomic clocks—in step with solar time, which is based on the movement of the Sun across the sky,” Time and Date reported.
Earth is spinning faster than it has in the last half-century, igniting a fiery debate about what we should do to keep the world on track. pic.twitter.com/3v0A6ru1gI
Many experts claim that this phenomenon is affected by the climate change, but no matter what the cause is, it could be devastating.
Over the years, the Earth’s rotation has been slowing down. The atomic clocks, which measure its rotation, needed to be fixed during the last 50 + years as a result of the leaps of 27 seconds since the 1970. That is the reason why the speeding comes as a shock as Earth records its shortest day since the atomic clocks have been in use.
“A negative leap second would mean that our clocks skip one second, which could potentially create problems for IT systems,” the Time and Date website warned. So what does that mean? According to the founders of Facebook, the negative leap second can have a “devastating effect” on software relying on precise timers and schedulers and it can do more harm than good.
⏰ If it feels like there is never enough time in the day, there may be a reason.
According to Time and Date, these changes in the speed of the planet’s rotation can be a result of the Earth’s “inner or outer layers, oceans, tides, or even temperature,” but that’s just a suggestion.
Scientists will discuss the issue at the upcoming annual meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society. Among them, renowned scientists Leonid Zotov, Christian Bizouard, and Nikolay Sidorenkov, will argue that the change in spinning might be related to the small and irregular movement of the geographical poles across the surface of the globe, or better known as “Chandler wobble.”
“The normal amplitude of the Chandler wobble is about three to four meters at Earth’s surface,” Zotov explained for Time and Date. ‘”But from 2017 to 2020 it disappeared.”
Spinning faster: Earth has recorded its shortest day since scientists began using atomic clocks to measure its rotational speed. Why is this happening? We check the latest numbers: https://t.co/iD4K9rnaiy
From the moment she landed her role in Fantastic Voyage and later in One Million Years B.C in 1966, gorgeous Raquel Welch, who will be turning 82 in September of this year, attracted the attention of millions of people worldwide. No one really cared that her character only had three lines of dialogue in the film because it was her stunning appearance in her undergarments that stunned the audience.
“I had no other credentials as an actress outside of that one laughable line of dialogue: ‘Me Loana… You Tumak.’ It felt like I’d stumbled into a booby trap – pun intended. I’m a living proof that a picture speaks a thousand words,” Welch said.
Soon after, images of her in the doe-skin bikini became best-selling posters that turned her into an international sex symbol. Playboy Magazine gave her the title of “the most desirable lady of the decade” in the year 1970 and she truly was one.
Her roles, through which she portrayed strong female characters, helped break the mold of the traditional sex symbol and end Hollywood’s vigorous promotion of the blonde bombshell.
Throughout the years, Welch took part in many films and she even got her own television program called Raquel! Her healthy lifestyle and her passion for yoga resulted in her publishing a book with exercises.
Men’s Health named her second hottest woman of all time in their 2014 issue.
During the last three years, Welch stood out of the limelight and we haven’t seen much of her. Recently, however, she was spotted visiting the J&J Beauty Lounge nail salon in Beverly Hills, a favorite place of the residents of the wealthy neighborhood. The model and actress was caught going through a series of different emotional states while she was having her nails done.
What many noticed is that although she’s still the same stunningly gorgeous woman she has always been, her looks did change over the years and she doesn’t truly resemble her old self.
Most recently Welch appeared in a sitcom titled Date My Dad where she reunited with Robert Wagner on screen, four decades after starring together in The Biggest Bundle of Them All. The same year, 2017, she acted in How to Be a Latin Lover.
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