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 Researchers stated on Wednesday that the commercials made to promote the fast food products are directly linked to the obese children. The research team proved that the forbiddance of such ads could reduce the number of overweight children with at least 18%.This banning also happened in countries like Sweden, Norway and Finland and the...
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 Health officials have demonstrated that smoking a cigarette
in a car makes the air inside 10 to 30 times more toxic than the air outdoors
on one of Southern California's most polluted days.
On Thursday, state officials put on a live demonstration of that health hazard
to promote a new law that bans smoking in cars carrying...
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 According to a study released Friday, women with diabetes
are 1.5 times more likely to develop colorectal cancer -- in which cancerous
tumors develop in the tissues of the colon or rectum -- than women who don't
have the metabolic disorder.
The research was announced Friday at the American
Association for Cancer Research's Sixth...
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 According to scientists, broccoli contains a chemical called
sulphoraphane, which activates cancer-fighting enzymes inside cells.
Researchers say the richest source of sulphoraphane is contained in sprouts.
In a demonstration of the plant's anti-cancer properties,
investigators smeared broccoli sprout extract on the skin of six...
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Zimbabwe's health services, once regarded among the best in Africa, are "in a state of collapse" with its main hospitals closed and a cholera epidemic raging, a leading medical body said Wednesday.
The country's four main hospitals, in the capital Harare and the western city of Bulawayo, were "virtually closed,"...
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Zimbabwean riot police beat striking doctors and nurses at a Harare hospital on Tuesday and sent them running for cover in wards, witnesses said, as reports emerged of dozens more dead in a fast-spreading cholera outbreak.
The protest took place at Parirenyatwa general hospital where around 200 doctors and nurses, from that hospital...
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Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Zambia's north-central Copperbelt region Thursday to demand the release of a local radio journalist who was arrested Wednesday for alleged incitement in a post-election programme.
The protesters, who chanted anti-government slogans, brought business in the town of Kitwe to a standstill,...
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Cambodian human rights group Licadho released 1,700 white balloons outside a prison in the capital Tuesday to draw attention to the plight of two men it said were wrongly convicted of the 2004 murder of a union leader.
The number of balloons represented the total days that Sok Sam Oeun and Born Samnang have served in jail for the...
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 Tensions bubbled to the surface in the Kenyan parliament Tuesday as the
house reopened for the first time since disputed presidential polls set
off a political stalemate and ignited violence around the country that
has killed nearly 600.
The opening session continued into evening as members voted in a
speaker and were set to be...
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 Kenya's opposition rejected Friday the offer of talks from the
country's controversial new President Mwai Kibaki, press reports said.
There would be no dialogue based on Kibaki's conditions, a
spokesman for the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) told Britain's BBC.
The ODM is relying on international mediators to resolve the power...
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 The Great Southern California Shake Out is a weeklong event that is meant to teach people how to act during a big earthquake. The education program starts today at 10 a.m. when 5.2 million residents of California will have to roll under the tables and spend two minutes holding its leg tightly. The organizers of the events say that it’s...
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 A man employed by a motivational coaching business in Provo, Utah reportedly sued the firm because they used waterboarding on him in front of a sales team during a team-building. The employee is Chad Hudgens and he sued Prosper Inc and Joshua Christopherson, his team leader who he says used the highly controversial torture technique on...
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 The Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge in South Texas
reopened early Friday following a fiery wreck that killed four people and
injured six.
Authorities said a van burst into flames Thursday night when
it was hit by two 18-wheelers that collided on the bridge, which spans the
Texas-Mexico border. The cause of the wreck, which...
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 US President George W Bush was set to kick off the first Middle East
peace conference in seven years Tuesday by cautioning that it marked
only the beginning of efforts to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
and that difficult challenges lie ahead.
The parley is aimed at relaunching peace talks between the sides,
and an Israeli...
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Thousands of demonstrators loyal to anti-US Shiite cleric Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr staged protests on Friday against the controversial US-Iraq security pact, a day after a heated debate on the agreement in the Iraqi parliament.
Holding flags and chanting slogans, protestors flooded Firdous Square in central Baghdad amid tight security,...
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More than 5,000 Iraqis demonstrated in the Iraqi city of Hillah on Wednesday to support the security agreement between the United States and Iraq that would require US troops to withdraw from the country.
The deal sets the legal basis for the future presence of US troops in Iraq after a United Nations Security Council mandate expires...
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Thousands of Iranian students chanted anti-American slogans in front of the former US embassy Monday, vowing to keep up their resistance to what they called "United States colonialism."
Young demonstrators, mainly schoolchildren, burned US flags outside the abandoned diplomatic compound in downtown Tehran, which radical...
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Less than six hours after a helicopter drops a combined US and Afghan army patrol by the mountain border with Pakistan, Islamic insurgents surround and pound the unit into disarray.
The surprise attack from forested slopes around the troops' positions lasts 20 minutes, during which they are pinned down and barely able to hit back,...
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An Indian student was knifed and hospitalized in serious condition in a provincial Belarusian town, sparking a rare university demonstration and class boycott, the Belapan news agency reported on Tuesday.
The racially-motivated attack by a reported gang of Slavic nationalists took place in the central city Gomel near the town's...
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Pablo Fierro came to Washington from Philadelphia for a rally against the proposed 700-billion-dollar financial bailout, which the House of Representatives could vote on Friday.
He held up an orange sign: "No to the bankers' coup d'etat."
Thursday's rally within shouting distance of the US Capitol was organized by a...
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Somchai Wongsawat, the brother-in-law of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, on Tuesday secured the full backing of the People Power Party to become the country's next premier after a party rift failed to scuttle his nomination.
"The People Power Party has reached a consensus to nominate Somchai as the next prime...
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Malaysia's opposition alliance on Monday held a massive rally protesting the detention of an opposition lawmaker and a popular blogger under a security law which allows for indefinite detention without trial.
Police on Friday detained opposition politician Teresa Kok and anti-government blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin under the Internal...
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Thailand's largest political party on Monday nominated Somchai Wongsawat, the brother-in-law of coup-ousted Thaksin Shinawatra, as its candidate to be the kingdom's next prime minister, but the choice has split the party.
Somchai, who has been acting prime minister since September 9 when former premier Samak Sundaravej lost his post,...
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An Indonesian Islamist hardliner went on trial amid tight security Friday over an attack on a rally for religious tolerance in June in which dozens of people were injured.
Government prosecutors charged Munarman, who, like many Indonesians, goes by one name, of committing harassment and destruction of property belonging to supporters...
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One of Germany's main Islamic groups voiced relief Friday after winning planning clearance to build a controversial new mosque expected become a landmark in the western city of Cologne.
Right-of-centre German groups had campaigned against the mosque, which will have a dome reaching 37 metres high and two 55-metre minarets. They...
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Thailand's prime minister said Tuesday that his government would not be forced from power after supporters of an antii-government movement broke into a government-run television station as part of what they called their final showdown with the government.
Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej said his government was legally elected and...
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A Palestinian who was shot during a protest in the West Bank last month petitioned Israel's highest court Tuesday, demanding the Israeli soldier who fired at him and his commander be charged with aggravated abuse, a spokeswoman said.
Ashraf Abu Rahmeh, 27, was shot in the foot from close range with a rubber-coated metal bullet as he...
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Beijing authorities have received 77 applications for demonstrations since August 1, a spokesperson with the municipal public security bureau was quoted by Xinhua news agency as saying on Monday.
But none of the applications materialized into protests, according to the report.
Under pressure to hold an Olympics of international...
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Hundreds of Myanmar activists protested outside the Chinese and Myanmar embassies in Bangkok Friday, marking the 20th anniversary of a brutal army crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Yangon that left thousands dead.
The protestors, mindful that Friday also marks the opening ceremony for the Olympic Games in Beijing, used the...
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An estimated 2,000 Tibetan exiles demonstrated in Kathmandu Thursday, a day ahead of the official start of the Olympic Games in Beijing.
The demonstration was the biggest by Tibetan exiles in Nepal since their protests started in March.
The demonstrators, including monks, nuns and schoolchildren, gathered near a Buddhist temple on...
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Nepalese police Monday broke up anti-China protests by exiled Tibetans in the capital Kathmandu and arrested nearly 100 demonstrators.
The incident occurred just days ahead of the start of the Olympic Games
in Beijing, and was the third large protest by Tibetans in Nepal this
month. The demonstration outside the Chinese embassy...
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 Nearly 1,000 Tibetans have been arrested in only two days
across the capital of Lhasa.
Sources in the city claimed close to 600 people had been detained on Saturday
and almost 300 on Sunday.
At a news conference in Beijing, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao blamed the
Dalai Lama and his followers for inciting violence by organizing...
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 China
admitted today it rounded up a group of Tibetan monks who demonstrated in the
capital of Lhasa on Monday, to mark the 49th
anniversary of a failed Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule in Tibet that
forced the Dalai Lama into exile in 1959.
Hundreds of Tibetan protesters are on the march in India again
today, even...
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 Israel reopened two of its border crossings with the Gaza Strip Tuesday
morning to humanitarian aid and diesel fuel, after nearly four days of
a total lock-down of the coastal salient.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said this was not enough, but
added that he would nonetheless continue peace talks with Israel.
"The...
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 Pakistani authorities on Monday again placed opposition leader Benazir
Bhutto under house arrest in the eastern city of Lahore to prevent her
from leading a rally against the emergency rule imposed by President
Pervez Musharraf 10 days ago, her party said.
"Thousands of policemen have surrounded the temporary residence...
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 Parliamentary elections will be held in Pakistan before January 9 as
prescribed but the current state of emergency will continue
indefinitely, President Pervez Musharraf said in Islamabad Sunday.
The National Assembly lower house would be dissolved at the end of
its five-year term on November 15 as scheduled and four...
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 Following international pressure, Pakistani opposition leader and
former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was released after several hours
of house arrest.
"The authorities have removed the police that were deployed around
her residence since this morning," PPP spokesman Farhatullah Babar told
Deutsche Presse-Agentur...
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 Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto Friday made an
abortive attempt to break through a police cordon outside her Islamabad
residence after she was placed under house arrest.
Bhutto, flanked by top leadership of her Pakistan People's Party
(PPP), tried to exit the besieged bungalow by a rear exit but her
armoured...
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 Malaysian police can proudly brag about its two black Labrador retrievers Flo and Lucky.
These two dogs are used by the police to sniff around compounds,
cargo-halls and containers after illegal merchandise.
They're good at what they do and so the police thought it
would be a good idea to set up a public demonstration as to...
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 Thousands of people gathered on the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday, but not to celebrate a decade of Chinese ruling.The crowds were driven by a common goal: democracy for Hong Kong, a demand characterized as defiance by China’s President Hu Jintao. Sunday should have been celebration time in the administrative region, after 156 years...
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 The northern Indian state of Rajasthan is ravaged by a series of demonstrations that degenerated into riots, as the protestors clashed with security forces which didn’t hesitate to open fire on the rage-driven crowd.Protests actions were initiated Tuesday by the ethnic Gujjar community, which demanded they have a special status in order...
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Karlheinz Bellmann went to Iceland to find out what had happened to his savings of 110,000 euros (138,000 dollars), missing since the collapse of the country's Kaupthing Bank.
Four days later, on his way back to Germany, the father of four had other matters on his mind: "What can one do to help the people here?"
Crying...
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The Polish government must sell off two loss-making shipyards which were the cradle of the anti-Communist Solidarity movement to claim back hundreds of millions of euros in illegal state aid, the European Union's executive ruled Thursday.
"State aid granted to the shipyards in Gdynia and Szczecin gives rise to disproportionate...
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Russian police arrested over 100 neo-Nazi demonstrators at an unsanctioned march Tuesday in Moscow, the Interfax agency reported.
The participants in a so-called Russian March were taken away by members of the special forces OMON unit, the agency reported, citing police sources.
Moscow city authorities had not sanctioned the...
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Greek state carrier Olympic Airlines will cancel around 100 domestic and international flights on Thursday as air traffic controllers and flight crews launch a 24-hour strike in protest against government plans to privatize the airline.
The cancellations will cover approximately 100 flights to European destinations such as London,...
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Not a single member of the opposition won a seat in Belarus' parliamentary elections, which was slammed on Monday by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) as "undemocratic."
Among the problems noted by OSCE preliminary findings as "bad" or "very-bad" was Belarusian ballot counting...
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No opposition member won a seat in Belarus parliamentary elections, the country's election commission said Monday, as protestors slammed the outcome as a "farce."
Commission head Lidia Yermoshina said the opposition still scared off voters, the official Belapan news agency said.
"The fear of mass demonstrations and...
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Hundreds of workers with Greek state carrier Olympic Airlines blocked the main runway at Athens International Airport Tuesday over plans to privatise the airline.
The demonstrators, including pilots, air stewards and technicians, prevented planes from taking off and landing on the runway.
Airport officials said the protest forced...
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Anti-immigrant rightists from around Europe gathered Friday to protest against a planned mosque in the German city of Cologne and chased a man of Turkish appearance.
Police have called in reinforcements, fearing the rightists may clash with Cologne's ethnic minorities and German leftists.
Reporters said they saw the rightists...
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An electricity plant that burns lignite coal but does not pollute the atmosphere with carbon dioxide was billed Tuesday in Germany as the future of coal power.
The utility Vattenfall built the pilot plant on the Schwarze Pumpe Industrial Estate at Spremberg near Germany's Polish border. It burns lignite dust mixed with pure oxygen,...
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The traditional Bastille Day military parade
began Monday on the Champs Elysees in Paris in the presence of more
than 30 European and Mediterranean heads of state and government.
The leaders who will be reviewing troops alongside French President
Nicolas Sarkozy were among the 43 presidents and prime ministers who on
Sunday...
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 A military public demonstration in the south-east of France was
ended by a tragedy last night after a soldier, instead of firing blanks, fired
real bullets and wounded at least 17 people standing in the crowd, many out of
which were the soldiers’ family members.
Five children were among the victims and one of them was
seriously...
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 The Vatican said Tuesday it had cancelled Pope Benedict XVI's scheduled
visit to Rome's La Sapienza University on Thursday - an event students
had threatened to disrupt.
"Following the well-known events of these days ... it was retained
opportune to cancel the event," the Vatican said in a statement.
Benedict, who had...
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 Incumbent Mikhail Saakashvili looked set to be returned as Georgian
president on Sunday as initial results gave him a clear majority in
polls held the previous day and judged by international observers as
broadly democratic.
An opposition rally in central Tbilisi ended without incident, with
around 10,000 supporters of the...
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 According to exit polls conducted by Russian
state-controlled companies, President Vladimir Putin's party winning more than
60 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections.
The vote projections were released Sunday evening by Russian
media, just minutes after the last polling stations closed in the Baltic
enclave of Kaliningrad....
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 Celebrated opposition figure and ex-chess champion Garry Kasparov was
released from jail Thursday after serving five days for his role in
protest marches ahead of Russia's parliamentary elections.
"His arrest is representative of the violence to normal human
rights occurring in Russia today," Kasparov's spokeswoman...
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 Russian President Vladimir Putin told an audience of ardent supporters
Wednesday that the main challenge faced by the nation going into the
December 2 parliamentary elections was "to ensure the continuity" of
the current policy course.
"We should do everything possible to resolve this problem ... that
it is...
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 With just two days to go before the 33rd Group of Eight summit
kicks off in Heiligendamm, new clashes erupted Monday in Rostock
between police forces and anti-globalization activists.
A group of about 300 asked persons attacked the security
forces with bottles, again disrupting the peace and triggering clashes. But the
turmoil was...
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 About one million protesters took the streets of the Turkish port of Izmir to show their opposition towards the Islamization of the country. The demonstrators weren’t discouraged by Saturday’s bomb attack which killed one person and injured 14 others in a central market of the town. A mass of red flags and pictures of Mustafa Kemal...
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 A bomb exploded Saturday in a market in the third most populous city of Turkey, Izmir taking the life of one person and injuring 14 others, officials informed.Nobody claimed the attack, as it comes one day before thousands of people will take the streets of the port as part of a demonstration against Islamism. The attack occurred in the...
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 Sarkozy’s election sparked violent protests in major cities across France for three consecutive days, as the police intervened and made several arrests late Tuesday. Protesters gathered near the Bastille Square in Paris and chanted anti-Sarkozy slogans, but the demonstration turned violent. In the clashes between the two sides one...
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Liverpool have three fresh injury doubts ahead of Sunday's top of the table meeting with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge,
Already without striker Fernando Torres, who suffered a hamstring injury while on international duty with Spain last week, they could also find themselves missing forward Robbie Keane and midfielders Steven Gerrard and...
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The government and opposition agreed to hold a nationwide referendum Sunday on the new draft constitution proposed by the president, after he agreed to term limits, a senior official said.
Rural Development Minister Carlos Romero said on Monday the agreement moves up the next general election by one year, to January 2009, which...
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China on Monday celebrated the Beijing Olympics as a "glorious success," while rest of the world saw the Games as a demonstration of the potential of an aspiring global power.
"China secured its position as a world power with the Olympic Games in Beijing," the Japanese daily Mainichi Shimbun said in a commentary at...
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This day in Olympic history: August 12.
1984 - Carlos Lopes wins the marathon for Portugal at the Los Angeles Games. It was his country's first-ever Olympic gold medal and he won it in an Olympic record time of two hours nine minutes and 21 seconds.
Lopes had originally wanted to become a footballer, but his father did not like the...
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the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include economist Adam Smith in 1723; Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa in 1878; English economist John Maynard...
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Two major events are happening this week in Russia. First,
the president Vladimir
Putin is stepping down on Wednesday, May 7, after eight years of presidency and
he will be replaced by Dmitry Medvedev. And second, the Victory Day parade in Moscow
takes place on Friday, May 9.
Intercontinental missiles and tanks are prepared to...
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 One day before the 17th International AIDS conference, thousands of people worldwide marched through streets in the capital of Mexico on all for the fight against homophobia and discrimination against people infected with HIV. The mass of protestors taking to the streets was part of the demonstration. With the aim of pointing up their...
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 On Tuesday, Yahoo’s Flickr photo website has added a video sharing feature in the attempt to get some of YouTube’s action. However, Flickr’s take on online video files is different, as the site’s users can post their videos along with pictures and, through security settings, have control over who watches the media."Flickr is a very...
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 In the longest ever Olympic torch trip, aimed to reflect China’s economic and political power, the flame arrived in San Francisco, its only stop in North America, on Tuesday morning and was treated like a head of state.The torch was accommodated in a hotel downtown as it waits to begin its march through San Francisco. The route of the...
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 The Olympic flame left Beijing on Tuesday to begin its month long world tour that is expected to calm down protesters in Tibet against the communist rule of China.The torch arrived in China on Monday, coming from Greece, where it was lit on the ancient Olympia, the site were the first Olympic flame was lit, and was greeted with an...
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 Lindsay Davenport showed her fantastic post- maternity shape as she won the ASB Classic on Saturday, defeating Aravane Rezai with 6- 2, 6-2 in her power demonstration ahead this month's Australian Open.Only six months after giving birth to a son, Jagger, the 31-year- old mother showed everybody would question that her past plan to leave...
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 On Thursday, MTI Micro and NeoSolar announced their plans of building fuel cell-powered ultra-mobile PCs.The collaboration will result in a series of digital devices, working on MTI Micro's Mobion fuel cell technology; the thing that makes MTI special is what it uses as fuel, namely liquid methanol cartridges (direct methanol fuel cell -...
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 If one remembers, a year ago
Sony’s image had to suffer because of a massive recall of its lithium-ion
laptop batteries. But the company seems to have learned from this lesson even
too much, as it has recently announced their releasing the ultimate bio battery
made from sugar.
The Japanese company that
represents one of the...
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 Recent research shows that our Sun is not the cause of the dramatic climate changes witnessed on Earth and that the global warming cannot be entirely explained through Sun’s activity.
The UN’s allegations that the climate changes are mainly caused by industrial activities here on Earth have been countered by some scientists who claim...
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A Palestinian who was shot in the foot from close range during a protest in the West Bank last month, petitioned Israel's highest court Tuesday to demand the Israeli soldier who fired and his commander be charged with aggravated abuse.
The Palestinian, Ashraf Abu Rahmeh, 27, participated in a July 7 demonstration in the West Bank...
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 Admitting that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Premier
Ehud Olmert faced some "tough choices," US President George W Bush
nonetheless expressed optimism Thursday that the sides would be able to
reach a peace deal by the year's end.
"I believe there will be a signed peace treaty by the time I...
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 The peace of the small Arab nation located in the Persian Gulf is disturbed for a second day, as protesters clashed with security forces Sunday throughout the island.The new wave of violence was triggered by a police attempt to break-up a rally in which Hassan Mushaima, Haq general secretary and the executive director of the Bahrain...
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 After months of speculations and high hopes, Blizzard Entertainment finally lifted the lid off the sequel to one of its most beloved and popular franchises, StarCraft.StarCraft 2 has been unveiled in South Korea on May 19, during Blizzard’s Worldwide Invitational event in Seoul, which took place inside the Olympic Gymnastics Arena. The...
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