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Paris Launches Drive for Clean Cars

...r for use for a few hours and which can be dropped off at various sites set up in Paris, Delanoe said in an interview with RMC radio and BFM-TV. "The idea is that you won't have to use a car for anything other than what is truely indispensable," the Socialist mayor said. The clean car service would mir...

Europe's Last Dancing Bears Sheltered After Years of Abuse

...ars' nails were cut regularly and cutting one nail off a bear hurts like cutting a whole human finger without anaesthesia," Khalil said. His Austrian-based organisation Vier Pfoten (Four Paws), together with French animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot, founded the Dancing Bears Park in 2000 and had alr...

Two More Unwanted Children Left at Japan's 'baby Hatch'

Two more unwanted children have been dropped off at Japan's new "baby hatch," reports said Sunday, ...ing a baby boy about two months old, were dropped off on Saturday, the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper and Kyodo News agency reported, citing unnamed sources clos...

Jessica Alba Prefers One-night Stands!

...ove her opinion of the embrace, almost turning her off kissing altogether. "Then, at 14, I had to kiss a guy who was 32 or 33, and I was like, 'Ewww! I didn't want to do it,'" she says. Thankfully for Alba, she's now found the man who she admits done much to change her opinion - her boyfriend Cash War...

WAG Wedding Extravaganza for England Footballers

...John Terry eased the scheduling problem by kicking off early, marrying his long-term girlfriend Toni Poole at a lavish ceremony at former British prime minister Winston Churchill's ancestral home on Friday. But Manchester United players Michael Carrick and Gary Neville plus Liverpool skipper Steven Gerra...

Toxic Algae Pose New Health Scare in China

...ts of nearby Wuxi city in Jiangsu province to turn off contaminated tapwater supplies. Scientists said that algae was still infecting Lake Taihu and had spread to Chaohu Lake in neighbouring Anhui province, where 40 square kilometres (15 square miles) of its surface were covered by the green slime, the n...

Obese Infant Kacey Causes Concern

...rt makes her stand out. The four year old can pass off for a ten year old as she weighs 31.5Kg. A whole team of doctors carried out a range of tests which failed to find any underlying medical cause for her condition. Today there is rising case of obese children right at the infant stage. They are ...

Hot Tips for Keeping Your PC Cool in Summer

...ense when removing dust from the computer. Turn if off and unplug it first, and try not to directly touch...onents within. Finally, consider turning your PC off when you're not using it during particularly hot spells. If you need to keep the PC itself running, ...

Sunita Returns June 21 After 194-day Record Space Odyssey

...hursday, US space agency NASA said. Sunita had set off from here Dec 9 on space shuttle Discovery on what was to become the longest space journey by a woman. Sunita, who with four excursions also holds the record for most space walks by a woman, crossed the new milestone Saturday surpassing the 188-day...

Blackcurrants can Protect from Heart Disease, Cancer

...s dark colour, the compounds are said to help ward off a range of ailments including heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease and diabetes. "The combined beneficial composition and impact in health-related studies mean that blackcurrants can claim to be the number one super fruit," said researcher De...

The Custom of Circumcision Decline in the US

...It's not like you're just cutting a piece of paper off a pad - there's no `cut here' line. It's not made ...Complete Male Pelvis. People thought it could ward off masturbation or disease, and those funny attitudes have really changed. Now people are saying, Why d...

Thai Separatists Burn School, Kill Four

... bureaucracy in 1902. A separatist struggle took off in the 1950s, fuelled by government efforts to suppress the local culture and religion in the region....

Mercury in Antiques can Pose a Hazard - Study

...ved it. An attempt to vacuum the tiny silver balls off the carpet only made things worse, requiring a hazardous materials team to be dispatched to Parker House Gifts and Accessories last summer. "I didn't really think it was the hazard that it became," Smith said. "I grew up in the days when you played...

Buckyball Has the Ability to Fight Against Allergy: Research

...e, however, we are the first to show they can turn off the allergic response and basic immune reactions," he said. According to Kepley, who is the main author of the paper, the buckyballs are able to 'interrupt' the allergy/immune response by holding back a crucial process in the cell that leads to the...

Dozens of Panamanians Gravely Ill from Toxic Substance from China

...o money to pay for it and considers he'd be better off dead." Herrera wants Health Minister Camilo Alleyne to be removed from office so he can be investigated in the case. "But it's tough to demand justice and rights when your family is dying."...

Vietnam Plans Human Trial of Bird Flu Vaccine

...d one million dollars to Vabiotech, a company spun off from the institute. The Vietnam trial is one of several efforts worldwide to find a vaccine that could be mass produced in case of a pandemic. Last month Indonesia's health ministry said US company Baxter Healthcare would in July start clinical tri...

Holmes Silences Pregnancy Rumours

...s silenced rumours that she is pregnant by showing off her figure in a revealing swimsuit. Hollywood.com reports that there were rumours that Holmes was in the early stages of pregnancy after she looked like she had a round stomach in Madrid. The couple wed last November and already have a 14-month ...

Employer Leave Helps the Parents of Chronically Ill Kids

...eater access to federal and employer-provided time off from their jobs. We found that having the time and financial flexibility to miss work is clearly important for parents who have children with serious chronic illnesses, said lead author Dr. Paul Chung, senior natural scientist at RAND and assistan...

Four-legged Friends Connect Online at Dogster

...ds, or, 'Please, make this, because I want to show off my spider'," Rheingold said. "We don't have immediate plans to launch other pet sites, but we'd like to. We really want to make sure we get Dogster and Catster right. It may not take long. But we'll probably stick to mainstream animals."...

'Lights Out' as London Does Its Bit for Climate Change

...bit for the fight against global warming and turns off its lights. The Houses of Parliament, luxury hotels like the Ritz and key businesses have confirmed they will take part in the "Lights Out" campaign from 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm (2000-2100 GMT) Thursday. The initiative, spearheaded by a local radio ...

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