| Belly fat linked to higher death risk |
Washington, Aug 28: People envied for their normal weight surprisingly face a higher death risk than the obese -- if they carry a prominent belly, according to latest research. “We knew from previous research that central obesity is bad, but what is new in this research is that the distribution of the fat is very important even in people with normal weight,” said Francisco Lopez-Jimene... |
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| Marijuana damages intelligence: Study |
Washington, Aug 28: Dependency on marijuana before 18 years of age may cause lasting damage to the addict’s intelligence, attention and memory, according to an international research. A long-range study of more than 1,000 New Zealanders, individuals who started using cannabis in adolescence and used it for years afterward, showed an average decline in IQ of eight points when their age 13 and... |
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| India gets high praise in Republican platform |
Washington, Aug 28: Seeking a stronger relationship with India, the Republican Party platform set to be adopted as the foreign policy plank of its presidential candidate Mitt Romney, urges New Delhi to permit greater foreign investment and trade.
The convention that would formally anoint Romney as the party’s presidential candidate gets underway on Tuesday with its schedule pushed... |
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| Pakistani dailies wonder about Swiss letter saga |
Islamabad, Aug 28: What next, wondered Pakistani dailies on Tuesday after Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf got three more weeks to write to Swiss authorities to reopen corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari.
One leading daily described it as a “pitiful sideshow” while another said the apex court was “trying its best to avoid being pushed into a corner whe... |
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| Cameron wants Pakistan to act on British family's murder |
London, Aug 28: Prime Minister David Cameron is putting pressure on the Pakistan government to ensure that justice was done to a visiting British family which was killed in cold blood in Pakistan over the breaking down of an arranged marriage.
Tania Yousaf (22) and her parents Mohammed (51) and Parviaz (49) from Lancashire, died in a hail of bullets from three gunmen in Gujrat district ... |
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| It's never too late to walk for life |
London, Aug 28: They say it is never too late. And the saying seems very much true when it comes to going for a walk, as experts have found a daily stroll could save one’s life by protecting against a host of chronic diseases. According to the US study, just a little light exercise can stave off heart failure, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and even Alzheimer’s. And it is never too la... |
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| Winfrey voted world's highest paid celebrity |
Los Angeles, Aug 28: Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey has been voted the world’s highest paid celebrity after banking $165 million in the past year. She has left behind directors Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg in a survey by Forbes magazine. The news comes just days after she was listed as the 11th most powerful woman in the world in another survey by the same publication. Winfrey’s ann... |
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| Chinese mom fire-bombs water firm for denying son job |
Shanghai, Aug 28: Three people were killed and four injured when a woman who was angry with her former water company for not giving her son a job hurled a petrol bomb in a meeting room in China’s Hunan province, a media report said. Shi Yanfei, who had retired from the Shaoyang Water Company in Shaoyang, Hunan province, entered the meeting room on Monday and threw a bottle filled with petrol... |
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| Tabby mauls baby, leaves her with savaged face |
London, Aug 28: A woman in a British city was woken up by screams of her baby girl who was left mauled by a neighbour’s cat. As Samantha (23) reached her baby, she found her being savaged in her cot by a neighbour’s cat. The tabby was still on the head of the terrified baby - clawing at the bloodied 17-month-old’s face, The Sun reported. “I was woken around midnight by her ... |
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| Woman attacks taxi driver for declining sex |
London, Aug 28: A woman allegedly stabbed a Romanian taxi driver after he refused to have sex with her for the third time. Nicolae Stan, the taxi driver, claims that the sex-crazed Angelina Jolie-lookalike passenger stabbed him after he refused to satisfy her for a third time. She had already forced him at knife-point to have intercourse and perform oral sex, Daily Mail reported. He cl... |
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| Taiwanese men told to squat when using public loos |
London, Aug 28: A special drive has been launched in Taiwan to teach men to sit down when they wee, especially while using a public convenience. According to government workers, some of the country’s 100,000 public loos are smelly because of urine splatters, The Sun reported. These workers are thus educating the men that it would be cleaner to perch on the toilet instead of standing up... |
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