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WICB president meets regional dignitaries
The president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Dave Cameron has described a series of meetings he has been having with Caribbean prime ministers as "crucial" to the development of the sport in the region. Cameron's comments follow his latest round of meetings in which talks were held with St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves in Kingstown and Prime Minister of ...
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Gene mutations linked to severe obesity
Increasingly research is revealing that not only lifestyle factors, but genetics also play an important role in determining an individual's susceptibility to obesity. Identifying the mutations that underlie the fraction of obese patients with monogenic obesity can help us to understand complex processes like metabolic rate, eating behavior, growth, and fat storage. In a new study, two ...
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Protests wont interfere with Confederations Cup
Brazil will not allow anti-government protests to mar the Confederations Cup being hosted here, Sports Minister Aldo Rebelo said. Rebelo said Monday that Brazil must show the world that it is a democratic country but also that it can guarantee the order needed to undertake such events, reports Xinhua. "We will not allow any of these protests to get in the way of the events we have committed to ...
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Henry Cavill reveals secrets to getting Superman shape
Henry Cavill has given fans a peek into the grilling fitness regime he undertook to transform his body from "Fat Cavill" to Man of Steel. He claimed that in order get into Superman shape he ate 5,000 calories and worked out for two and a half hours a day, News.com.au. reported. Cavill gives credit for his toned body to his trainer Mark ...
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Face-down restraint ban considered
Ministers will consider a ban on the use of face-down restraint in English mental health hospitals after new figures that show nearly 40,000 incidents of physical restraint were recorded in just one ...
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Reds [DVD]
By any stretch of the imagination, it is either an outright miracle or testament to his power in Hollywood at the end of the 1970s (or maybe a little of both) that Warren Beatty was able to produce and direct Reds, his romantic epic about the Bolshevik Revolution and the birth of the Am ... ...
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iStyle Mix but don’t match
Fortunately, this summer you can increase the amount of pigeon Italian you know by peppering conversations with the word "spezzato". For the uninitiated, this sartorial turn of phrase, when translated into English, literally means "broken". Apply this visually to what you wear, and it becomes the subtle art of mis-matching your jacket with your trousers. Sounds easy, right? ...
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NHS watchdog accused of hospital scandal cover-up
Britain's NHS regulator has been accused of covering up their failure to prevent a scandal at a hospital maternity unit where at least eight babies are thought to have died from neglect, according to a damning report to be published ...
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Lifestyle Lift changes national ads after probe
Four years after settling similar charges in New York, the plastic surgery company Lifestyle Lift reached a settlement with the Florida attorney general that requires it to change its marketing ...
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Psychiatrists call for action over premature deaths of mentally ill
An international group of psychiatrists today launches a drive to end the global scandal of premature deaths among people suffering from severe mental ...
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UK defies European car sales downturn
Sales were down 5.9 per cent against a year earlier across the European Union, falling to just 1.04 million, the ACEA car makers' association said. This was the worst May since 1993, when sales dropped below 1 million. The downturn punished all major markets as the eurozone wallows in a sixth straight quarter of recession and record unemployment. Sales plummeted 9.9 per cent in Germany and ...
Making the news
Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.
Hassan Rouhani
Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.
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Wyndham Miami Beach Resort
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