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Singing lullabies to premature babies helps them leave hospital sooner
The researchers found that slowing a premature baby’s heart rate and improving their sleep and feeding behaviours, helps them to gain weight which means they may be able to leave hospital ...
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Ugly employees are more likely to be bullied by their cruel and harsh attractive colleagues
The study by Michigan State University found that unattractive workers were treated more harshly than their attractive colleagues when it came to promotions and which tasks they were given to ...
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British explorer leads team to the lowest depths recorded by cavers venturing almost a mile underground through pitch black tunnels including 600m underwater swim
Jason Mallinson, from Huddersfield, pictured carrying diving gear through a sump reached the deepest into the earth that anyone has been in the Western ...
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Pedestrian mobile phone injuries DOUBLE in five years
The number of pedestrians admitted to A&E because they're too busy on their mobile phone to watch where they are going has doubled in the last five years - and is expected to double again in the next ...
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EasyJet passengers told they need passport valid for at least three months
Holidaymakers travelling to Cyprus could be turned away at the airport by budget airline easyJet if their passports are due to expire within the next three months - despite UK and Cypriot authorities insisting that their passports are still valid for ...
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Amanda Knoxs secret meeting with ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito just hours after Italian judges ordered their re-trial over the death of Meredith Kercher
The former lovers were pictured strolling in New York on Tuesday - just hours after Italian judges ordered them to return to court for a retrial for the murder of British student Meredith ...
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Hit squads of top teachers should be sent in to rescue failing rural and seaside schools says chief inspector
Hit squads of top teachers and headteachers should be employed directly by the government and parachuted into failing schools, Ofsted’s chief inspector said ...
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Mystery after Putin ally fired in fake press release
Russian security services sought Thursday to unravel a mystery after a fraudster managed to fool the country's news agencies into believing one of President Vladimir Putin's closest allies had been "fired" from his ...
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FBI finds possible human remains at former home of late gangster James Burke - the man who inspired Goodfellas
Investigators send material for analysis at house that was once occupied by the infamous mobster who inspired Robert De Niro's character in the 1990 ...
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Singapores air at hazardous a levels as Indonesia fires burn
'Hazardous' air in Singapore, Indonesia SINGAPORE – Singapore’s air quality deteriorated to "hazardous" levels on Thursday as smoke from forest fires in Indonesia obscured skies over the wealthy city-state and parts of Malaysia and disrupted some businesses and travel. In Singapore, air traffic controllers gave more time for aircraft between taking off and ...
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India Floods Up To 1000 Feared Dead
At least 1,000 people may have died in flash floods and landslides in the north of India, officials have said. The news comes as India's army military increases its efforts to reach tourists and pilgrims in villages and towns cut off by torrential monsoon rains in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand. Helicopters and up to 10,000 soldiers have been deployed and mobilised to ...
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Insight Pakistan influence on Taliban commanders helped Afghan breakthrough
1 of 2. Afghan Taliban look on after handing over their weapons as they join the Afghan government's reconciliation and reintegration program in Herat province, February 17, ...
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Egypt court orders Mubarak PM Nazif freed
CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court ordered the release of former prime minister Ahmed Nazif on Thursday, because of a limit on pretrial detention in a corruption case for which he had been held since the revolution that toppled Hosni ...
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Somali Islamists threaten more carnage after attack on U.N. base
Security was tight on Thursday as Somali army pick-up trucks mounted with heavy machine guns blocked the main road linking the city center with the fortified airport and nearby U.N. base that was targeted. A water canon truck blasted away bloodstains on the ...
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China euro zone threaten U.S.-led economic recovery
LONDON (Reuters) - Factory output in China, the world's second largest economy, weakened to a nine-month low in June, combining with a continued recession in the euro zone to threaten a global recovery led by the United ...
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Rush to rescue thousands trapped by India flooding
An Indian army personnel carries a stranded woman pilgrim to a safer area in Chamoli district, in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, India, June 18, ...
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The 4 remaining Supreme Court cases to watch
The Supreme Court has a little more than a week left to hand down its remaining rulings from this term, including four broaching the contentious issues of race and marriage equality. The court's most hotly-debated and complicated rulings always come down at the end of its term, which comes to a close in late June. This year, the final rulings are almost sure to be two cases hitting on the ...
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ICC postpones Kenyatta war crimes trial
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has postponed the Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta's war crimes trial in connection with deadly post-election violence in 2007-08."Today, the Trial Chamberset a new date for the commencement of the trial of Mr Uhuru Kenyatta. The trial is now scheduled to commence on November 12," the Hague-based ICC said in a statement on Thursday. ...
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Protests roil Brazil despite fare rollback
Protesters in Brazil have continued to clash with police, even after authorities in two of the biggest cities rolled back the transit fare hikes that triggered two weeks of nationwide protests. The bus and subway fares rollback in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday marked a major victory for the protests, which are the biggest Brazil has seen in two decades. But the government’s ...
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Ten sentenced to death in Bangladesh
A court in Bangladesh has sentenced 10 people to death after finding them guilty of assisting a suicide bombing. A judge announced the sentences in the capital Dhaka, special public prosecutor Rafiqul Islam, told the AFP news agency on Thursday. "They assisted the suicide bomber in making the bomb, providing information, planning and carrying out the attack," the prosecutor said. The ...
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Delayed Voting Under Way In Two Iraqi Provinces
Iraqis in two Sunni-majority provinces are casting ballots in provincial elections two months after most of the country held the same polls. Some 2.8 million voters in the Anbar and Nineveh provinces are voting on June 20 to elect representatives to provincial council seats. Twelve of Iraq's 18 provinces conducted their elections in April but voting in Anbar and Nineveh, both in ...
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The future of Syria
No matter how grim the future looks for Syria, it is still our humanitarian duty and in our long-term national security interests to get ...
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MKs pay solidarity visit to price tag-hit Abu Ghosh
A delegation of lawmakers from Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid faction visited the Arab village of Abu Ghosh on Thursday morning to express their support for local residents after this week's headline-grabbing "price tag" ...
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The Jerusalem Press Club
Israel is always in the news. Everyone has an opinion about this geographically tiny country, so small its name on maps has to be abbreviated, and even the abbreviation doesn't fit and has to float in the Mediterranean Sea. It is sometimes said that Israel could use some good public relations, to improve, or change, people's opinions about it.The new Jerusalem Press Club is not ...
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Singapore smog could last for weeks as pollution level reaches hazardous record high
The smog engulfing Singapore could last for weeks, the city state's prime minister warned as air pollution levels reached record highs and hazardous ...
Kazakhstan Focus
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Kazakhstan capital's next challenge
Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, has experienced rapid growth in recent years and has seen the completion of some impressive architectural feats, now there are plans by the government to build a huge indoor city within the capital, providing the country with a modern feat of engineering and a tourist attraction of which to be proud.
Astana and Dubai, despite vast differences, have a few things in common as cities. Dubai is not the capital of the United Arab Emirates, while Astana is the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana is one of the coldest capitals in the world while Dubai is in one of the hottest regions on the planet. But Astana, like Dubai, has experienced rapid development in recent years, due in large part to the relocation of the capital to the city, and like Dubai, it has had to make sometimes impressive adaptations to architecture and development in order to compensate for the climate. Read more
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