The salads and healthy pastas we buy to eat well may not be as good for us as we think. Campaigners say a lot of supposedly healthy food should carry a health warning because of the high salt content. The British pressure group Consensus Action on Sa...
The famous 19th-century fairy tale collector Wilhelm Grimm suggested fairy tales dated back thousands of years. Scientists now support his theory and claim that many of the fairy tales we know and love could be over 4,000 years old. Anthropologist Ja...
New research suggests that sleeping next to your pet increases your risk of getting sick. Researchers from the University of California-Davis believe pet owners have a greater chance of catching diseases as serious as the bubonic plague, an infection...
Love conquers all. This is certainly so for the former heaviest man in the world. Mexican Manuel Uribe used to be the worlds most overweight person. He was in the Guinness Book of Records in 2006 after breaking the human weight record. Special weighi...
Having a bad boss could be bad for your heart. This is the conclusion of a Swedish study on management styles and health. The researchers concluded that poor managers can increase their employee's risk of developing heart disease. The Stockholm Unive...
Women have to pay a lot more in stores than menfor almost the same things. A new study by TheTimes newspaper in Britain found that manyproducts for women cost up to twice as much assimilar products for men. Researchers looked athundreds of goods in t...
Making schoolchildren take tests is harming students interest in science, as well as having a negative impact on kids natural curiosity. This is the conclusion of a British university report into science teaching and testing in primary schools. Resea...
Many people hate nuisance telephone calls. These are the calls we get from companies trying to sell us something that we usually do not want. They are also called 'cold calls'. Britain's government is thinking about taking action to stop these calls....
Britain's National Health Service (NHS) suggests that up to half of adults have suffered from some form of mental illness at some stage in their life. Data from the Health Survey for England reveals that 25 per cent of all adults have been diagnosed...
A war of words has broken out between Iran and Saudi Arabia following the execution of a religious figure by Saudi authorities on Saturday. The Shia Muslim cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr was among 47 men the Saudi Arabian government put to death on terro...
