A history of kidney stones has been linked with an increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) in women but not in men, according to a new study.
An analysis of data from three studies that involved a total of more than 240,000 participants from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey reported the prevalence of a history of kidney stones of 10.6 percent in men and 7.1 percent in women.
Majority of millionaires don’t consider themselves rich, a new study has revealed.
The study entitled ‘What is Wealthy?’ and conducted by investment bank UBS found that only 28 per cent of investors with between 1 million dollars and 5 million dollars in investable assets considered themselves rich, ABC News reported.
However, 40 percent of those with 5 million dollars in investable assets admitted that they didn’t feel they were rich.
Bill and Hillary Clinton are angry with New York mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner and his campaign to compare his Internet sex scandals to the Clintons’ notorious White House story.
A unidentified man has been taken under custody after a feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez, was subjected to threats of sexual violence on Twitter.
According to Scotland Yard, a 21-year-old chap was apprehended earlier in Manchester in connection with the barrage of hostile tweets, the BBC reported.
The abuse started after she successfully campaigned for a woman’s face to appear on British banknotes.
Criado-Perez said that the abusive tweets began the day it was announced that author Jane Austen would appear on the newly designed 10 pound note.
The Duchess of Cambridge has reportedly opted to breastfeed her new son Prince George Alexander Louis, instead of using formula milk in a bottle, it has been revealed.
One senior royal source told the Mirror that it would be fair to say that the new baby has a healthy appetite.
According to the insider, there were some difficulties at first as new mums can get a little tense.
The source asserted that with some help from the midwife, the mom-son duo both caught on very quickly.
Brazil’s Alan Oliveira has become the world’s fastest double amputee athlete after breaking Oscar Pistorius’ 100m T43 record at the Paralympic Anniversary Games in London.
The 20-year-old ran 10.57 seconds to break his previous record of 10.77. According to the BBC, Oliveira’s Sunday”s record was his second of the week after he broke Pistorius’ 200m world best on his way to winning that event in Lyon. However, Oliveira again played down the idea of trying to compete at both the Rio Olympics and the Paralympics in 2016, the report added. (ANI)
Pakistan’s Foreign Office has condemned the US drone strike that killed six people in North Waziristan tribal region on Sunday.
At least 36 people have been feared dead when a coach plunged 30m (98ft) down a steep slope in Italy. According to the BBC, the coach hit several cars before coming off a flyover near the town of Avellino, in the Campania region injuring around 11 people.
The latest to do the rounds of rumours surrounding Apple’s newest flagship product iPhone5S is its launch date, which is speculated to be September 6.
Pope Francis and President Barack Obama are the most influential world leaders on Twitter. According to a new survey by global public relations and communications firm Burson-Marsteller, Obama was among the world leaders who engage in ‘twiplomacy,’ the use of Twitter for diplomatic relations.
Israel and Palestine will resume face-to-face peace talks on Monday in Washington, the State Department has said. Secretary of State John Kerry’s six months of frenetic shuttle diplomacy is being credited for the long-stalled peace talks to begin. Agency spokeswoman Jen Psaki said both the countries had accepted invitations from Kerry to come to Washington to formally resume direct final status negotiations. According to Fox News, Psaki said Kerry on Sunday called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
A retired Australian investigator has said he believes a US secret service officer fired one of the bullets that killed former US President John F Kennedy. ReelzChannel will broadcast a documentary that suggests Kennedy was accidentally shot by a Secret Service agent.
According to news.com.au, ‘JFK: The Smoking Gun’, is based on the work of retired Australian police Detective Colin McLaren and the book ‘Mortal Error: The Shot that Killed JFK’, by Bonar Menninger. McLaren spent four years going through evidence from Kennedy”s death on November 22, 1963, in Dallas.
New Zealand”s military chiefs on Monday denied authorizing illegal spying on an investigative journalist who reported unfavorably on the New Zealand Defence Force”s (NZDF) handling of prisoners in Afghanistan. Acting Chief of Defence Force, Major General Tim Keating, was responding to a report in the Sunday Star-Times newspaper that alleged that the NZDF had obtained copies of journalist Jon Stephenson”s phone metadata in Afghanistan.
A foul-mouthed man has been caught on camera racially abusing a Pakistan-born taxi driver in New Zealand. The racist told the driver to go to where he came from and refused to pay his fare. According to news.com.au, driver Tariq Humayun remained calm and polite throughout the incident, which began after he picked the man up just after midnight from Invercargill. The man went on to tell Humayun to ‘f*** off back to where you come from’. He said that this was not the first time he was racially abused and had suffered many such incidents before. (ANI)
The new foreign minister of Egypt has urged restraint, a day after clashes in Cairo which killed at least 70 people. In an interview with the BBC, Nabil Fahmy said all sides need to stop inciting and using violence.
On Saturday, supporters of the ousted president Mohammed Morsi clashed with security forces, and thousands are continuing a sit-in at a city mosque. According to the report, Fahmy said his government would like to move forward ‘but that requires cessation of violence and incitement’. (ANI)
The Pakistan Cricket Board has expressed concern as charges of match fixing haunt the national cricket team again, and is contemplating legal action if the charges are proved wrong. According to The Express Tribune, a PCB official revealed that the PCB was talking to the ICC and it maintained a zero tolerance policy on corruption.
A platinum-based chemotherapy drug has upped the survival rate of British men suffering from testicular cancer by 96 per cent.
Figures compiled by Cancer Research UK show that 96 percent men have successfully been treated for testicular cancer, which is a big improvement since the 1970s when the survival rate was lower than 70 percent, the Independent reported.
Cisplatin had first been identified as a compound in the 19th century but researchers did not realise its application in oncology until the late 1970s.
Your behaviour could be the reason behind you not getting promoted at your workplace.
Personal image and etiquette expert Anna Musson said that it is never just one thing which could help ruin your career, asserting that it is all the little things put together, which creates an overall bad impression.
One of the habits that could ruin your career is drinking too much at an office party, News.com.au reported.
Another habit is that people should avoid is over promoting, under delivering or jus plainly lying.
More and more people are getting intimate with their former partners and it appears to be working out just fine for some people.
Huffington Post blogger Kristen Houghton said that it makes sense, as if a couple had a good sexual relationship with their spouse, despite the fact that living together as man and wife was not possible, it did seem a shame to give it up altogether.
Former England player Alec Stewart has said in his column that although the goal of a 5-0 series-win for England was thinking too far ahead, it was something the whole country wanted to see. According to the Mirror, Stewart said that England need to show their class from the first ball to the last and if each individual performs to the best of their ability and as a unit, the Ashes will be won and the country can celebrate yet more sporting success.
Pakistan has defeated West Indies in the second T20 to clinch the series 2-0 as the hosts were restricted to 124 for 9 at the end of their 20 overs in response to Pakistan”s 135. According to The Express Tribune, Sohail Tanver and Zulfiqar Babar were the pick of the bowlers, with two wickets each. Umar Akmal was announced Man of the match, while Babar was named Man of the Series, the report said. (ANI)
Pakistan”s Shahid Afridi has become the first cricketer to hit 400 sixes in an international career on Saturday. According to Sport24, Afridi reached the landmark in the 16th over of Pakistan”s reply to the West Indies” 152 for seven in the first Twenty20 international.
The Pakistan player has been in and out of the national side for quite a while now and has come back to form recently against West Indies. Chris Gayle, playing for the West Indies, is next on the list having hit 353 sixes in his Test, ODI and T20 career, the report added. (ANI)
A watchdog body criticised the US Agency for International Development today for spending nearly USD 50 million on programmes in Afghanistan which had so far failed to strengthen local government or improve stability.
An audit from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) highlighted concerns with
USAID’s “Stability in Key Areas Programme” which runs across the war-torn country.
The report from the official US watchdog will raise further worries about wastage of some of the billions of
Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Monday indicated his prime ministerial ambitions when he said that a Third Front will emerge victorious in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
“No party will be able to get majority in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. Neither the Congress nor the BJP will be able to get majority. The Third Front will emerge victorious,” he said.
Yadav, who was addressing a gathering here, said an anti-Congress and anti-BJP wave is quite prominent throughout the country, including in the West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.
As the suspense on the issue of separate statehood for Telangana continues, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Rajnath Singh on Monday said that his party is in favour of bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh and will definitely agree to the demand for a separate state. “The BJP had decided this long back looking at the socio-economic condition and geographical situation of Telangana, a separate Telangana state should be formed,” he said. He also asserted that BJP will definitely agree to the demand for a separate statehood of Telangana if they come to power.