Share McDonald’s Happy Meals with toys was banned by the Board of Supervisor in San Francisco, California. Regardless of the oppositions and mock from the opponents, the vote supersedes the mayor’s veto and officially agreed the ban. The latest decree requires Happy Meals and other fast food with toys to meet new nutritional standards, otherwise [...]
Share Daily intake of aspirin among middle age people will help fight off heart disease and cancer, a scientist said yesterday. The advantages of taking the pills were discovered to far outweigh the side-effects on people over 45. A professional group said the results were capable of massive importance to public health and those at [...]
Share Protesters surrounding an effigy of Nick Clegg hanging on the gallows last night, displayed their intense anger at the LibDems’ U-turn on tuition fees. On a different group of student protest, the protesters gathered outside the headquarters where Deputy Prime Minister was scheduled to speak, singing: “Nick Clegg, shame on you, shame on you [...]
Share The Robot trying to save NZ blast victims has broken. A robot supposedly used to save the 29 miners including the two Britons in New Zealand has broken down, while hopes grow fainter for the men’s survival. Until now the rescuers were not yet able to enter the Pike coal mine due to the [...]
Share A cookie-sized satellite is planned to launch today to go to space with a mission to discover the origin of life in our universe. It has a tasty name O/OREOS which stands for Organism/ Organic exposure to Orbital Stresses. The test called “Space Environment Survivability of Live Organisms” will try to study the growth, [...]
Share Thousands of women will benefit from the remarkable improvement in testing for cervical cancer. Test results are release in one day and is more accurate compared to the smear test which is presently used to detect signs of disease, a researcher said. The cost is only £15 a time and could be obtain in [...]
Share A stampede occurred on a bridge in Cambodia’s capital killing at least 339 people and many were injured after thousands of people panicked during the last day of the water festival, official and state media reported on Tuesday. According to the witnesses the stampede started when several people were electrocuted by the lights lining [...]
Share North Korea fired missiles toward an island in South Korea on Tuesday, killing at least one S.Korean soldier, a Yonhap agency reported. Yonhap said, there were two civilians and 13 South Korean military men injured, and three soldiers and are critically hurt. A Ministry of Defence speaker opposed the report of Yonhap, saying no [...]
Share There are things in the past that we would rather forget, scientists were able to discover a pill that helps blocking out painful memories. A breakthrough in medicine, researchers have discovered that proteins can be removed from the brain’s fear centre to erase the traumatic life stories. Their findings could be beneficial to soldiers [...]
Share The attack of North Korea on South Korean island has caused the Japanese government to be put on high alert, with Prime Minister Naoto Kan instructing his cabinet members to maximized information gathering and prepare for emergencies. Japan’s self-defense forces and Foreign Ministry officials on Tuesday increases intelligence gathering activities from ships operating in [...]
