A UK man has explained how by following a “starvation” diet he managed to cure his diabetes in just 11 days.
Richard Doughty, 59, said that he was shocked when a routine health check revealed he had Type 2 diabetes because he has always been a 10st 7lb healthy weight, 5ft 7in man, the Daily Express reported.
Doughty insisted that he had no family history of diabetes, always ate a healthy diet, never smoked and or even had a sweet tooth.
A new survey has found that a quarter of middle-aged men, who admitted to losing their focus while driving, blame good-looking women as being their major distraction.
A fifth of drivers affected said they had almost had an accident because of the distraction, the Daily Express reported.
However, female motorists are twice as good at keeping their eyes on the road.
The research found that just 1 percent of women confessed to doing a double take after spotting a handsome man while behind the wheel.
Fathers embarrass their kids by telling an average of two terrible jokes a week, a new study has revealed.
The survey to mark the launch of American Dad volume eight, has revealed that youngsters avoid going out in public with their dads on an average of four times a month because they are too embarrassed, the Daily Star reported.
A spokesman for the cartoon Dad-dancing said that telling children off in front of friends and grilling their son or daughter’s potential love interest also made the top 10 of embarrassing antics that children like to avoid.
A Florida man, who has already survived a lightning strike, a rattle snake bite and two different monkey attacks in his lifetime, is currently recovering from a gruesome shark bite in a Tampa Hospital.
A part of 40-year-old Erik Norrie’s left leg was torn away by the predator, when he was swimming back to his family, after wrapping up his spearfishing trip in the Abaco Islands in Bahamas, the New York Daily News reported.
Search engine giant Google’s operating system Android has not only pushed down Apple’s dominance in the tablet industry but has also topped the world’s smartphone market.
A new study by Strategy Analytics found that Google’s Android is responsible for 80 percent of handsets sold in the second quarter of 2013 accounting to 182.7 million handsets, Fox News reports.
The research firm said that it is a significant boost from the number of handsets sold in the same quarter last year and attributed the success to Android’s ability to target various price tiers.
A French nurse has placed an ad to rent out her breasts for gay couples who can’t breastfeed their own children.
According to a UK publication, the advertisement was posted on e-loue, a website offering goods and services for rent, by the 29-year-old nurse who called herself “cecilia232”, living in the Parisian suburb of Boulogne, the Washington Times reported.
The ad reads that she is a young mother in good health and a trained nurse aged 29, who wants to rent her breasts to suckle newborns.
The ad also said that she can offer to feed the babies a dozen times a day.
Working with veteran actors is always a learning experience for newcomers, and it’s no different for Indo-Canadian porn star and Bollywood actress Sunny Leone, who is sharing screen space with Naseeruddin Shah in “Jackpot”.
“He (Naseeruddin Shah) is very calm and reserved, but he gives suggestions, which is very nice,” Sunny said in an interview.
“He is a lot of fun to work with. He is not really conversant, but when he gets onto laughing, it’s the best feeling,” she added.
The Congress Party has constituted a four member committee headed by Defence Minister A.K. Antony to hear the concerns arising over the decision to form a separate state of Telengana.
The other members of the committee are Congress leaders Dr. M. Veerappa Moily, Digvijay Singh and Ahmed Patel.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi today approved the constitution of this committee amid protests by some party leaders against formation of separate statehood of Telangana.
England bowler Monty Panesar has reportedly offered an apology for urinating on bouncers who had thrown him out from a nightclub, for which he was fined 153 dollars on charges of being drunk and disorderly.
According to Fox Sports, the spinner, who was partying at Shooshh club in Brighton, was asked to leave when a group of women complained to security that he was harassing them, following which Panesar walked up to the promenade above the nightclub and urinated on the bouncers.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi have promised to study the statehood demands of the people of Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao districts of Assam.
Devajit Thousen, chief executive member of the Dima Hasao Autonomous Council, said this Wednesday after a meeting with the prime minister and Congress leaders in New Delhi as part of a delegation also involving members of the Karbi Anglong autonomous council.
“We have presented the aspirations of the people of the two hill districts. Both have promised to look into our demands,” said Thousen.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha on Wednesday issued a breach of privilege notice against Defence Minister A.K. Antony, alleging that the latter had not only misled the House with his statement on the killing of five Indian soldiers in Jammu and Kashmir, but also altered the Indian Army’s account of the incident. “It was the most laughable statement by a Defence Minister of India.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari on Wednesday appealed to opposition parties to rise above politics and unite for a constructive discussion on what should be India”s response to Pakistan on the killing of five Indian Army soldiers in Poonch District on Tuesday morning.
As former NSA contractor Edward Snowden has been granted a temporary asylum by Russia, the government is now planning to seek his help in probing the extent to which the country’s digital sphere has been violated by the US and how it can be protected from such threats in future.
According to the Christian Science Monitor, Snowden might find himself acting as ‘Exhibit A’ in Russia’s efforts to beef up its national electronic security and assert their ‘digital sovereignty’ in light of his revelations that major internet companies have been giving away user data breaching laws.
An Indian ex-employee at software giant Microsoft’s corporate headquarters in Washington has been reportedly charged with raping a janitor at his office.
Vineet Kumar Srivastava, 36, a former programming manager at the company allegedly called the woman in his office, molested her, showed her pornographic images on his cellphone and then raped her, the New York Daily News reports.
According to authorities, Srivastava blocker the woman from leaving her office and raped her for several minutes.
Software and mobile manufacturer Apple has reportedly launched a worldwide programme to replace third-party and counterfeit USB charges following electrocution of a Chinese woman by a non-Apple charger.
According to the BBC, Apple will replace third-party chargers for an official replacement on payment of 10 dollars or the equivalent in local currency.
The move comes in light of the recent incident where a Chinese woman, Ma Ailun was killed when she answered her iPhone 5 while it was plugged into a wall charger, which was later blamed to be the cause of the death.
The United States has reportedly expressed hope that Pakistan and India would continue their recent peace efforts towards normalisation of relations despite the recent turbulence caused in the respective governments over reports of the alleged unprovoked firing from the Pakistani side and the resultant death of five Indian soldiers.
Cricketer Monty Panesar has been fined by police for urinating in public following a nightclub brawl in the beach town of Brighton in southern England.
The 31-year-old spinner has since apologised after it emerged that he was drunk and disorderly, and urinated on bouncers at Shooshh Club after being thrown out of the venue on Monday.
“A 31-year-old man received a fixed penalty notice for being drunk and disorderly after being seen urinating in public near the Shooshh Club in King’s Road Arches, Brighton, around 4.13 am on Monday,” a Sussex Police statement said.
Microsoft announced the availability of Office 365 University for full-time and part-time students studying in accredited colleges and universities in India.
Students can now subscribe to Office 365 University which includes the latest and most complete set of Office applications and works across 2 PCs or Macs, comes with Office on Demand and an additional 20 GB Premium SkyDrive Storage-all for Rs. 4,199 for a 4-year subscription.
Pakistan has omitted giant paceman Mohammad Irfan from the Test squad for the tour of Zimbabwe while opener Khurram Manzoor is set to replace left-hander Nasir Jamshed. According to Sport24, all-rounder Anwar Ali will replace Wahab Riaz in the one-day squad and wicket-keeper Adnan Akmal, who is the younger brother of Kamran Akmal, will return to the Test team.
BJP today withdrew its candidates from Mandya and Bangalore Rural Lok Sabha seat where bypolls would be held on August 21 in an apparent understanding with the JDS, a move that evoked sharp reaction from Congress that launched a frontal attack on H D Deve Gowda-led “family party”.
Bangalore South BJP MLA M Krishnappa pulled out from Bangalore Rural, while K S Doreswamy did so in Mandya on the last day of withdrawals, leaving the field to a direct fight between the Congress and JDS.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa is the most qualified to become India’s next prime minister, followed closely by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, a survey conducted among NRIs and released here Wednesday has revealed.
With a score of 86 out of 100, Jayalalithaa ruled the roost and Modi got 81 marks.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi came in third with a score of 53 while other leaders like Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and BJP leader L.K. Advani could not even secure the basic score to enter the survey.
Amid the uncertainty over fate of Hyderabad after proposed bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, Dr Ambedkar’s proposition that the city could become the second capital of India is being raised afresh by some non-Telagana leaders.
“None other than the architect of Indian Constitution, B R Ambedkar, suggested long ago that Hyderabad be made the nation’s second capital after New Delhi. In the current scenario, it will be the most appropriate thing to do,” TDP spokesman Sudheesh Rambhotla noted today.
The wife of a soldier, killed in an ambush by Pakistani troops in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch sector, today refused the compensation offered by the Bihar government and demanded military action instead.
“Can Rs 10 lakh compensation bring back my husband? We don’t want compensation but strong military reply to Pakistan for killing my husband and other Indian soldiers,” a wailing Pushpa Rai, wife of jawan Vijay Rai told reporters at her native village at Bihta, about 50 km from here in rural Patna.
Justice R A Mehta, whose appointment as Gujarat Lokayukta was opposed by Narendra Modi, today declined to assume office, saying the controversy has “denigrated” the office of the anti-corruption watchdog.
A retired Gujarat High Court judge, Mehta, blasted the Modi government for calling him “biased” and “anti-government” while opposing his appointment.
A Lokayukta unwanted by the government cannot get all the necessary and timely support from it, he said in a letter to Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal who had appointed him, triggering a standoff with the Modi government.
India’s Saina Nehwal and P.V. Sindhu advanced to the women’s singles pre-quarterfinals of the World Badminton Championships at the Tianhe Indoor Stadium here Wednesday.
World No.3 Saina overcame Russia’s Olga Golovanova 21-5, 21-4 in only 23 minutes in their first ever encounter. In the third round, Saina will face Thailand’s 15th seed Porntip Buranaprasertsuk against whom the Hyderabadi has a 5-0 record.