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British royal family photos go online at Flickr Buckingham Palace said on Sunday it has launched an account with online photo management site Flickr. The British Monarchy Website Flickr account streams both up-to-the-minute images of royal engagement...
Music can boost language skills Learning to play a musical instrument can change your brain, with a US review finding music training can lead to improved speech and foreign language skills. Although it has been suggested in the past that listening to...
Japan's first lady tells of home life He lacks dress sense, can't cook to save his life and badly flunked delivering his first policy speech. Meet Japan's new Prime Minister Naoto Kan - as seen by his wife. These and other domestic insights are revea...
Romantic comedies affecting off-screen love lives Romantic comedies might provide 90 minutes of light-hearted fun but the happy-ever-after movies are also impacting people's real love lives, according to an Australian survey. A poll of 1,000 Australi...
Britons are smiles ahead in Europe's happy league Heres a reason to rejoice despite the nation's woes: Britons are the happiest people in Europe. Research shows that we smile more than our continental cousins, with only the Spanish, known for their s...
Playboy launches new safe-for-work website Playboy on Tuesday launched a new, non-nude website that it described as being safe-for-work and a satirical antidote to the drudgery of the work day. Produced specifically for the Internet, www.TheSmokingJa...
Third of women are earning more Nearly a third of women are the main breadwinners in their household, according to a major survey. Thirty percent earn more than their partners and a further 19 percent earn the same amount. Researchers said that in ma...
Too hot to work? No sweat, go home, says German official As Germany wilts in sweltering temperatures, a manager in a Berlin government office told his 260 sweating workers to go home, a newspaper reported Friday, undermining Germans' reputation for e...
Clintons in tears over Chelsea? You can bet on it Chelsea Clinton's hush-hush wedding may as well be classified but one thing is no secret: There will be tears. The only child of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wi...
Forget the seven-year itch, the real test comes at TWELVE years Seven-years has traditionally been the time when love and affection give way to disillusion and disappointment. But couples who manage to survive the seven-year itch would be wise not to...
Graduate tax to replace tuition fees: Cable Business Secretary Vince Cable is to propose agraduate taxlinked to post-university earnings, replacing the current system of tuition fees, as part of major reforms to higher education. Under the plans the...
Argentina legalizes gay marriage Argentina has become the first Latin American country to legalize same-sex marriage. The move grants homosexual couples all the legal rights, responsibilities and protections that marriage gives heterosexual couples....
Scientists in Britain close to cracking chicken-egg puzzle What came first, the chicken or the egg? Scientists in Britain think it was probably the chicken, after using new computer technology to try and crack the age-old riddle. Researchers at the U...
Life on Earth wiped out every 27 million years Life on Earth is wiped out every 27 million years and we have about 16 million years left until the next extinction, according to scientists. Research into so-called extinction events for our planet over...
Ever sent a racy text to the wrong person? Twenty percent of Britons have managed to send racy texts to the wrong person, and nearly one in 10 has been caught red-handed sexting, according to a poll on Tuesday. Under-25s are the most careless, with 4...
