WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Fast-food restaurants are stepping up efforts to market themselves and unhealthy food products to children and toddlers with television ads, websites and even their own menus,…
Heterosexuals Tom Freeman and Katherine Doyle will request civil partnership to oppose segregation by sexualityA heterosexual couple will request a civil partnership – available only to same-sex couples in the UK – at a register office in London tomorrow, to take a stand against a system which they say “segregates couples according to their sexuality”.Tom [...]
Israeli film-maker Noa Ben-Hagai went in search of a forgotten great-aunt and found cousins who are Palestinian Arabs. What happened next?Back when peace did not seem such an impossibility, it was fashionable to cast the Middle East conflict as a family feud. Jews and Arabs were held to be if not brothers then long-lost cousins [...]
The vinegar-flavoured salt may be the best thing to happen to a fish and chip supper since sliced breadThe question has inspired culinary debate for decades. How do you sprinkle vinegar on your chips without making them too wet? We may have an answer: Malt Salt – a new vinegar-flavoured salt that US makers J&D’s [...]
You can’t afford a bigger property down south – so would moving north solve all your problems and provide a better lifestyle?You’re cramped into a one-bed flat in London – so would the fact you could afford a three-bed house in Manchester be enough to make you head north? Or is it worth upping sticks [...]
The breakthrough could mean that in the foreseeable future people who are in need of blood for surgery, cancer treatment or treatment of other blood conditions like anemia will be able to have blood created from a patch of their own skin.
Every year, November 14 is observed as the World Diabetes Day (WDD). It was introduced in 1991, by the International Diabetes Federation and the World Health Organisation in response to the alarming rise of diabetes around the world.
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – Using a laptop computer as the name suggests may not be good for male reproductive health, according to a study.
A grown woman owning a celebrity perfume is an obvious sign that things aren’t quite right, but there are plenty of other style disasters to set the alarm bells ringingA friend of mine recently went home with a young woman after a party. However, before he, you know, got down to business, he went to [...]
ROME (Reuters) – Archaeologists, commentators and opposition politicians accused Italy’s government of neglect and mismanagement on Sunday over the collapse of the 2,000-year-old “House of the…
BEIJING (Reuters) – Prominent Chinese artist Ai Weiwei said on Saturday he had been put under house arrest in connection with an argument with the government over the planned demolition of his studio…
A large segment of the Hindu community particularly, the people of south Orissa observe the Deepawali as the day of their ancestors. They believe that on this day, the ancestors use to visit their homes and returns to the heavenly bodies.
BARCELONA (Reuters) – For decades tourists have visited the twisting spires of Barcelona’s iconic Sagrada Familia church, but 128 years after construction began Catholic faithful will worship there…
NEW DELHI (Reuters Life!) – Books on President Barack Obama and his posters bearing his image are selling fast in New Delhi and Mumbai, the two cities he is visiting on a trip to India.
Last week was the deadline for secondary school applications. Julia Voss bemoans a confusing, frustrating and corporate process that has been reduced to a timeshare sales pitchForty years ago, I left my primary school and went, along with all my friends, to our local secondary school. That was the extent of my “transition process” in [...]