Archive for February, 2010
Flagging Tories warn the country: Brown could still win this election as poll shows their lead cut to just TWO points
In a keynote speech to activists at the party’s Spring Conference in Brighton – delivered without notes – David Cameron said they needed to spell out the choice the country was facing. Continue Reading
TigerText: The app for spies and cheaters
If you’ve ever sent a text message that you’ve later regretted sending (Tiger Woods, I’m looking at you), then a new texting application just released for the iPhone could be your new best friend. Continue Reading
Cameron claims it’s his ‘patriotic duty to get rid of Brown’ as poll lead shrinks to just TWO points
David Cameron is launching a fightback against Labour by warning of the ‘dire prospect’ of Gordon Brown winning five more years in power. Continue Reading
Brown, the bully: Key No10 figure tells how he was pushed and shouted at by the PM
In the tape, obtained by The Mail on Sunday, the official describes how he exclaimed ‘Bloody hell!’ and was left ‘shocked and upset’ when Mr Brown pushed him aside with a raised arm. Continue Reading
The world flocks to the Web after Chile earthquake
After Chile’s massive earthquake and potential Pacific Rim tsunami damage, relief organizations, government agencies, corporations and throngs of people are on Google, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other services to seek and provide information and help. Continue Reading
GMTV’s Kate Garraway’s ‘home cooking’ diet was really delivered ready meals
The star put her weight loss down to cooking healthy meals and exercise, but failed to mention she was having free hampers of pre-prepared lunches and dinners delivered twice a week to her home. Continue Reading
Multiple sclerosis onset: Could mycobacteria play a role?
A non-pathogenic bacterium is capable to trigger an autoimmune disease similar to the multiple sclerosis in the mouse, the model animal which helps to explain how human diseases work. This is an unprecedented mechanism which could explain how this terrible central nervous system disease starts up in humans. Continue Reading
Tsunami warning to every nation around the Pacific after massive 8.8 earthquake strikes Chile
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet confirmed 122 people were dead after the massive earthquake struck this morning. Continue Reading
Cameron launches fightback after poll slump and tells voters: ‘It’s make your mind up time’
With his party suffering a pre-election wobble, the Tory leader told a pre-election spring conference that his party was ‘bold and radical’ and offered ‘big change’. Continue Reading
Worst class post: One in four first class letters fails to arrive on time
New figures have laid bare the crippling impact of the strikes by militant postmen which caused five months of chaos last year, with only 78 per cent of first class letters arriving the next working day. Continue Reading
Man who broke the Bank of England, George Soros, ‘at centre of hedge funds plot to cash in on fall of the euro’
A group of Wall Street hedge fund bosses, including Soros’s representatives, argued that the euro is likely to plunge in value to parity with the dollar. Continue Reading
Increasing neurogenesis might prevent drug addiction and relapse
Researchers hope they have begun paving a new pathway in the fight against drug dependence. Their hypothesis — that increasing the normally occurring process of making nerve cells might prevent addiction — is based on a rodent study demonstrating that blocking new growth of specific brain nerve cells increases vulnerability for cocaine addiction and relapse. Continue Reading
BBC presenter Nick Clarke’s widow tells their inspirational story of laughter, tears and love
Here, in our first extract from her extraordinary new book, his widow Barbara Want tells the haunting story of their doomed love. Continue Reading
Worst class post: One in four first class letters fails to arrive on time, say devastating figures
New figures have laid bare the crippling impact of the strikes by militant postmen which caused five months of chaos last year, with only 78 per cent of first class letters arriving the next working day. Continue Reading
Man who broke the Bank of England George Soros ‘at centre of hedge funds plot to cash in on demise of the euro’
A Greek consumer group has called for a boycott of German goods as a festering row between the two countries over the euro grows. Continue Reading
Smoking significantly increases risk of aneurysm in people with certain genes
Researchers have confirmed three gene changes that raise the risk that a blood vessel in the brain will weaken and balloon out (aneurysm), creating a life-threatening chance of rupture. Smoking, the biggest risk factor for brain aneurysm, is five times more dangerous in people with these gene variations. However, a second study on the same population notes that most people with aneurysm die of cancer or heart problems. Continue Reading
The Falklands betrayal: U.S. fails to back British oil claims after row over American torture secrets
President Barack Obama was accused of being ‘feeble’ by failing to back London in the stand-off with Argentina over the disputed islands, despite the ’special relationship’. Continue Reading
Single mother who had sex with boy, 12, almost 200 times is jailed for nine years
Angela Sullivan, 36, who had a son the same age, kept diaries of the times she had sex with the boy and bought him a pair of trainers as a reward after he slept with her for the 100th time. Continue Reading
Exploiting the body’s own ability to fight a heart attack
Scientists trying to find a way to better help patients protect themselves against harm from a heart attack are taking their cues from cardiac patients. The work on “ischemic preconditioning” mirrors a perplexing curiosity that physicians have long observed in their patients: When faced with a heart attack, people who have had a previous one oftentimes fare better than patients who have never had one. Continue Reading
The cigarettes, crisps and creme egg diet (but then do you know what YOUR teenager’s eating?)
Skipping meals, gorging on junk food and a secret smoke for breakfast – one 17-year-old’s disturbing diary of what she eats. Continue Reading
The cigarettes, crisps and creme egg diet (but then do you know what YOUR teenager’s eating?)
Skipping meals, gorging on junk food and a secret smoke for breakfast – one 17-year-old’s disturbing diary of what she eats. Continue Reading
Insult to 7/7 victims: Families’ fury as their loved ones and the four suicide bombers who murdered them share same inquest
Families of the innocent victims of the July 7 attacks reacted furiously yesterday to the decision to include the deaths of the four bombers at the inquest. Continue Reading
Failures let girl, 7, starve to death: She would still be alive if officials had done their job, says judge
Khyra Ishaq could have been saved by social services from her squalid conditions and an agonising death, a High Court judge revealed. Continue Reading
Intracranial stenting, injecting clot-busting drugs directly to brain
Placing stents in the brain and injecting clot-busting drugs directly to the brain had better success rates for acute ischemic stroke than other treatments. There was no excess risk of hemorrhage from either of the two treatments, according to a new study. Continue Reading
Dragon Quest IX (Finally) Coming to the US This Summer
Would that I was Japanese, because then I wouldn’t have to wait a year or more for games like Dragon Quest IX to paddle across the pond. Make that 229 days, 13 hours, 24 minutes, 42 seconds, and counting since the game came out in Japan last July. Continue Reading
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