Russian chess legend turned politician Gary Kasparov announced he would come out of his 15-year retirement to compete in a US grand slam chess tournament against nine top players in Missouri. "Ready to see if I remember how to move the pieces!" he tweeted. "Will I be able to announce my re-retirement afterwards if not?!"
80 years on from the disappearance of Amelia Earhart during her attempt to be the first female pilot to fly around the world, experts on the History Channel, have produced a photograph they say may show what happened to her. The black-and-white image, they say, shows her on the Marshall Islands, after her crash-landing. But is it really her? When exactly was it taken? And what happened after. Much is still disputed.
Ghanaian-born Edward Enninful last week became the first non-white and first male editor of British Vogue magazine — and his career so far suggests there is plenty to celebrate about this. While at Vogue Italia, Enninful created the magazine's first and only black model's edition. Earlier this year, in response to Donald Trump's proposed Muslim travel ban, he got 81 leading fashion figures together to make a video in which they each declared, "I am an immigrant
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