Dan Bilzerian and guests at a night club opening in Las Vegas. Bilzerian, who boasts close to 30 million Instagram followers, won't date anyone his own age. Photo / Getty Images
Dan Bilzerian and guests at a night club opening in Las Vegas. Bilzerian, who boasts close to 30 million Instagram followers, won't date anyone his own age. Photo / Getty Images
The New Zealand Herald is bringing back some of the best stories of 2019 from our premium international syndicators, including The New York Times, Financial Times, The Times of London and Harvard Business Review.
This afternoon we look at the King of Instagram, the woman who fell in love with a Nazi, saving the Amazon, signs of a recession and the 70-year-old man who won a 1000km horse race.
Guns, girls, gambling: Meet the multimillionaire king of Instagram
He possibly made a fortune from poker. He definitely won't date anyone his own age. He's known as the King of Instagram (nearly 30 million followers).
Emilie Landecker and Albert Reimann Jr., who kept their relationship a secret for many years. Photo / The Reimann family via The New York Times
Saving the Amazon: Fighting fires and illegal loggers
Swathes of the Amazon rainforest have been burning at a rate not seen in a decade.
The struggle to protect the world's largest tropical rainforest seems at times like a war against well-organised jungle insurgents, who strike and then vanish into the emerald wilderness.
Fire consumes an area near Porto Velho, Brazil. Photo / AP
A recession is coming (eventually), and here's where you'll see it first
Economists often say that "expansions don't die of old age." That is, recessions are like coin flips — just because you get heads five times in a row doesn't mean your next flip is more likely to come up tails.
Forecasters, investors and ordinary people are increasingly asking when the next downturn will arrive. Photo / Getty Images
70-year-old man wins 1000 kilometre horse race in Mongolia
Bob Long, 70, just became the oldest person to finish what Guinness World Records calls the longest multi-horse race in the world. He also came in first.
"Preparation trumps youth," said Long, who "hated" to think that he couldn't complete the Mongol Derby, a gruelling contest across the steppes of Mongolia.