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Six nearly became five this year, when David Walker thought he would have to drop out after pulling a muscle in training.

For VE Day this year, President Putin called a three-day ceasefire with Ukraine – it's presumed, because he wants to concentrate, uninterrupted, on showing off Russia's military muscle in front of a crowd of foreign dignitaries, including President Xi Jinping of China.

The conservationist, Aussie TV personality and son of the late “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin flashes some serious muscle in the new Bonds ads, which include him posing with a snake, a spider and a lizard.

He struggled to hit at his first three minor league stops but put together a solid fourth season, hitting .272 in a year split between Double A and Triple A. So four months into the 1991 season, he was called up by the Pirates after backup catcher Don Slaught pulled a muscle in his rib cage.

For Kyiv, it is also a chance to patch up its relationship with Washington and muscle in on a process it is yet to be involved in.