They were a typical American couple: They got married, raised two daughters, and then, finding themselves squabbling over money and other issues, had a typical American divorce. Then Jim Tobin fell desperately ill with kidney disease that only a transplant could cure. His ex-wife, Bernadette Tobin, asked to be tested and found she was a [...]

When Anna Kozlov caught sight of the elderly man clambering out of a car in her home village of Borovlyanka in Siberia, she stopped dead in her tracks, convinced her eyes were playing tricks.
There, in front of her, was Boris, the man she had fallen in love with and married 60 years earlier. The last [...]

Their wedding was booked for today at noon - but Ulster couple Michael Spathaky and Marian Chambers tied the knot at three o’clock this morning.
It’s the time difference. Their wedding was in Sydney, Australia - nine hours ahead of Northern Ireland.
But what difference does a few hours make when you first met 51 years ago [...]

Soon after Ivan Byvshikh, a 20-year-old Russian intelligence officer, fell in love with the daughter of a German man that he was sent to interrogate at the end of the second world war, the relationship was brought to an abrupt end.
The Soviet authorities sent him home in 1946 and although they exchanged letters for 10 [...]

The world’s tallest man has finally met his match, and she barely comes up to his elbow.
Bao Xishun, who measures 7ft 9in (2.36m) and lives in the Inner Mongolia region of China, has been seeking a bride for decades. At last, at the age of 56, he has found his true love and she comes [...]