Asian men forced to marry foreigners: study Increasing numbers of southeast Asian men, particularly in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are marrying foreigners because fewer women in their homelands are willing to wed, a new study said Monday. The pheno...
Women will evolve into having children at older age The fashion for having children later in life could lead to women becoming more fertile in their 40s and beyond, scientists have suggested. As many women wait until they are older to give birth, onl...
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...
