Prolonged wearing of flip-flops on hard flat surfaces can cause considerable foot and leg problems, say experts. Flip flops costs the National Health Services, in the United Kingdom, around 40 million pounds a year. Around 200,000 people see their doctors or even end up in accident and emergency after falling victim to the footwear. “Prolonged [...]
Women are at their attractive best when they are 31—that’s the precise age when, according to a survey, they are considered most beautiful. The poll of 2,000 men and women, commissioned by the shopping channel QVC to celebrate its Beauty Month, found that females in their early thirties are seen as more attractive than younger [...]
Researchers found the typical female will have her hair layered, shortened or coloured twice a year between the ages of 13 and 65 – or 104 times in her life. The main reasons for a shift in style are “boredom’” with their current look or the end of a relationship. It also emerged the average [...]
Around 1,500 people showed up at the Bottle Inn pub, in Marshwood, Dorset, to see 61 contestants compete in the 2010 edition of the annual Nettle Eating World Championships. The history of this bizarre eating competition can be traced back to the mid 1980s, when local farmers started the ‘Longest Stinging Nettle’ competition, to see [...]
India’s teeming cities, where even the living jostle for space, are running out of room for the dead. India’s Hindus cremate their loved ones, but the country’s Muslim and Christian minorities usually choose burial — and they fear the practice is under threat. About 185 million Indians belong to the two faiths, with census figures [...]
Donna Simpson, 42, from New Jersey weighs more than 42 stone and aims to reach 1,000 pounds, or 71st. The mother of two children, aged three and 14, models on a website, where admirers and the curious can pay to watch videos of her eating greasy foods or walking to the car. A Guinness World [...]
LONDON: Birthday is an occasion filled with enthusiasm and enjoyment; here are pictures of some cats celebrating birthday like humans. These pictures showing cats celebrating birthday by cutting cakes, enjoying delightful meals and drinks.
A fascinating carpet, made of 2.19 million pieces of cigarettes, was put on display in Sydney, with a view to encourage people against cigarette-inflicted diseases. The fixed number of cigarette, used in manufacturing this alluring carpet, was aimed at raising awareness in smokers that the addict may smoke within 30 years of his life if [...]
The famous Hollywood sign has been saved from being spoiled by property development by a last-minute donation from Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner. The soft-porn magnate gave $900,000 (£580,000) to the fund which was set up to stop the site being developed.The sign is owned by the city, but the property around it belongs to a group [...]
Scientist Stephen Hawking fears aliens in giant spaceships may one day terrorise earth. The physicist said extraterrestrials almost certainly exist on other planets. Professor Hawking, 68, an expert on the universe who wrote A Brief History of Time, warns that jealous aliens could one day want to steal Earth’s resources. And, in a scenario similar to Hollywood [...]
