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  • African Leaders Condemn Ongoing Use of Cluster Bombs

    Thirty-six African countries have formally condemned the use of cluster bombs and urged all of Africa to join a global ban on the deadly weapons. Delegates at a conference in Lome, Togo say they are gravely concerned about the ongoing use of cluster munitions and the mounting number of victims, including women and children. They say 14 African countries have a cluster bomb problem, ...

  • UAE minister ranked 67th among worlds 100 powerful women

    Sheikha Lubna bint Khalid Al Qasimi, the UAE's minister of development and international cooperation, has been ranked 67th among the world's powerful women in 2013 in an annual report by Forbes. Forbes is a US business magazine owned by Forbes Inc. Published biweekly, it features articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing. Forbes also reports on related subjects such as technology, ...

  • Women should look real raw Gisele Bundchen

    Brazilian model Gisele Bundchen believes "imperfections make us unique and beautiful", and so women must look real and raw in their photographs instead of being caked with make-up. She came to realise this after working with US-based apparel brand BLK DNM's creative director Johan Lindeberg, who persuaded her to go make-up free. "I loved his approach because I feel like women should be real ...

  • US mom gave birth to child after her heart stopped and then came back to life

    A women from Texas, who died technically when her heart stopped beating, gave birth to her daughter then came back to life again on her own. It all happened, when 32-year-old teacher Erica Nigrelli collapsed in her Missouri City classroom last February. Her husband, Nathan, a teacher at the same school, found that his wife was having a seizure. After call to the 911, paramedics reached the ...

  • 100-year-old X-rays reveal how corset-clad Victorian women endured pain

    X-rays published in 1908 demonstrate how corsets of the era narrowed the lower rib cage. X-ray images from the early 20th century illustrate what women were willing to endure in the name of fashion: namely, squashed rib cages and displaced organs, thanks to their tightly-laced metal-enforced corsetry. The images are included in a medical paper written in 1908 by Dr. Ludovic O'Followell of ...


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The King of Marvin Gardens [Blu-Ray]

The King of Marvin Gardens [Blu-Ray]

The King of Marvin Gardens was director Bob Rafelsons attempt to fully establish his artistic voice. His previous two films, the experimental Monkees trip Head (1968) and the alternately raucous and austere character study Five Easy Pieces (197 ... ...

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  • Inked women more approachable but have looser morals

    Men believe that women who have gotten inked - and particularly 'tramp stamps' - are more likely to have sex with them on their first date, according to a study. The study conducted by France's Universite de Bretagne-Sud, found that men surveyed were likelier to ask a women out if they had a tattoo, but they also believed them to be of a "loose" character, the New York Daily News reported. In ...

  • Women gymgoers filthier than men

    The funky smell at your gym could be because most people tend to wear their workout gear a few times before washing, according to a new poll. The new survey finds that most people wash their clothes only after every third workout. Women are the worst offenders, the survey said, with just 21 percent washing their gym clothes after each and every workout, the New York Daily News reported. A ...

  • Two women swept to their deaths in San Antonio flooding

    Marco Fairchild, left, and Gary Garza, right, help Sueann Schaller from her car Saturday, May 25, 2013 in San Antonio after she drove it into floodwaters in the Westwood Village ...

  • Change needed if we want women in the workforce

    Women in the workforce is the policy issue of our time but any discussion must go hand-in-hand with consideration of how children are raised. Picture: ...

  • Witnesses say 17 killed in attack by Maoist insurgents in India

    Maoist insurgents abducted a leader of the Indian National Congress party and his son Saturday evening in an attack witnesses said left 17 people dead. The Indian Express reported 150-200 militants struck the party's convoy of about 20 vehicles on the Bastar-Sukma national highway in Jagdalpur district. State Congress President Nand Kumar Patel and his son Dinesh Patel were kidnapped, ...

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