Yu Darvish is Iranian-Japanese ethnicity and was a part of the Japanese national team that completed the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2009 World Baseball Classic. Darvish received further publicity when he was caught smoking in a pachinko parlor on an off-day during his first Spring training in 2005, despite not being old enough to smoke nor to gamble at the time legally. At 21 years old, Darvish became the youngest player in Japanese baseball history to reach the 200 million yen mark.

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Last week, fashion bible British Vogue issued an intriguing style diktat. Deputy editor Emily Sheffield, the sister of Samantha Cameron no less, declared that the kitten heel is the perfect shoe. The reason? Not just because it’s more comfortable, but because it gives ‘just the right amount of lift to the derriere’ without ‘hampering swift movement’. But can the height of your heel really transform the look of your posterior?

Maren Morris absolutely slayed the red carpet when she arrived at the 57th Academy of Country Music Awards at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on March 7. The 31-year-old singer opted to wear a sleeveless tan leather vintage Dior midi dress with a low-cut neckline and a tight bodice that showed off her tiny waist. She arrived arm in arm with husband, Ryan Hurd. Maren’s sleeveless dress featured a plunging neckline that showed off ample cleavage while the entire bodice was laced-up into a corset.

Yevgeny Prigozhin has repeatedly accused the Russian defence ministry of deliberately starving his fighters of munitions in what he called a treasonous attempt to destroy the mercenary group. The increasingly vitriolic owner of the Russian mercenary firm the Wagner Group hit out at Russia’s military elite by publishing a grim image of dozens of his fighters he said were killed after being deprived of ammunition while battling Ukrainian troops. Yevgeny Prigozhin – founder of the Wagner private military company that is fighting on Moscow’s behalf in Ukraine – took a bitter public feud with the top army brass to a new level on Wednesday with the grisly photograph of corpses piled high, while laying blame for their deaths squarely with the top army brass.