20 percent of the world’s 1 billion smokers are women. According to WHO’s latest report the number of smoking women is increasing each year. WHO drew attention that the spread of smoking is especially alarming among young girls. WHO claimed on World No Tobacco Day”: it’s very urgent to protect health of women and roll [...]
Scientists indentified four new tribes of Ug99 fungus, which can jeopardize global food supplies according to scientists. The newly found tribes are from Africa but they are likely to spread in Asia and other regions too – reported the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI), a group which deals with wheat infections. The fungus is spreading [...]
On Monday morning Israeli commandos assaulted a voluntary aid flotilla which was heading to Gaza strip. Some sources say that the military action caused at least 15 deaths and several dozen of people were wounded. The Israeli and Turkish media plus the arabic al-Jazeera television have reported about that the caravan which consisted six ships [...]
According to a fresh survey, 40 percent of laptop users would switch to touchscreen tablet computer. The Kelkoo online product comparision site asked 950 people, if they would buy an iPad. One-third of respondents would switch from their computer to an iPad and 40 percent of them would replace their laptops with an iPad-like touchscreen [...]
The Bangladeshi Telecommunications Authority has temporarily banned access to Facebook social media site on Sunday evening local time, as it represented portraits of Muhammad prophet and also harmful photos of some Muslim leaders. The authority added that they had to take this step as those contents could hurt Muslim people’s feelings. Bangladeshi authorities have arrested [...]
McLaren’s British driver, Lewis Hamilton won Sunday’s Turkish Formula 1 Grand Prix, the seventh race of this years world championship. Behind Hamilton, his teammate Jenson Button finished second place and Mark Webber (Red Bull) became third. The 25 years old Hamilton – who won the world championship in 2008 – had his first win this [...]
Prejudice is strengthening against foreigners, Arabs, Jews and homosexuals in France – BVA’s public opinion research group has revealed. The survey – which was assigned by UEJF and SOS Racisme organizations – shows that while last year only 12 percent of the respondents thought that Arabs are more liable to crime, now this rate rose [...]
On Saturday’s summit at Jeju Island in South Korea, Asia’s three leading economic powers have agreed to deepen their cooperations between their countries. South Korean president, Lee Myung-bak, Hatoyama Yukio japanese Prime minister and Wen Jiabao Chinese Prime minister have agreed to establish a liaison office in South Korea next year on this purpose. The [...]
Since the financial crisis has exploded the morale of Germans have dropped to the lowest level now: a large scale poll showed that 54 percent of the population worry about the fall of living standards. This may due not only because of problems regarding the common currency but also because of the unsuccessfulness of the [...]
Russian multimillionaire, Roman Abramovich is going to follow the South African World Cup matches from his luxury yacht called Eclipse, near the South African shores. According to SuperYachtTimes.com online rankings, the 162,5 meters long ship is the biggest motor yacht in the world. The German press reported that the ship will take off in a [...]