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New research has found that being a ”happy” teenager is linked to increased well-being in adulthood. Much is known about the associations between a troubled childhood and mental health problems, but little research has examined the affect of a positive childhood. For the first time, researchers from the University of Cambridge and the MRC Unit […]

Protesters demanding Moammar Gadhafi’s ouster came under a hail of bullets Friday when pro-regime militiamen opened fire to stop the first significant anti-government marches in days in the Libyan capital. The Libyan leader, speaking from the ramparts of a historic Tripoli fort, told supporters to prepare to defend the nation. Witnesses reported multiple deaths from […]

AFGHANISTAN on Wednesday appealed for the United States to provide security assistance beyond 2014, the date by which President Barack Obama wants to withdraw US combat troops. Afghan Defence Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak was holding talks at the Pentagon to look at future relations, despite recent tensions between the two governments over civilian deaths in […]

Want to keep yourself happy and productive at work? Smile like you mean it, suggests a new study. The research, led by a Michigan State University business scholar, suggests that customer-service workers who fake smile throughout the day worsen their mood and withdraw from work, affecting productivity. But workers who smile as a result of […]

A POCKET of 15 people found alive trapped in a six-storey office block which collapsed in the Christchuch earthquake have been rescued, a fire official says. Rescuers have located and recovered the group of people alive from the CTV Building destroyed by the massive Christchurch earthquake, the Fire Service said. “We’ve got them out of […]

As political unrest shakes its tiny Gulf ally Bahrain, much more is at stake for the United States than just the fate of the US Fifth Fleet’s base, analysts said. Also in play are Washington’s extensive strategic ties with Bahrain’s influential oil-rich neighbor Saudi Arabia and efforts by US arch-foe Iran to spread its influence […]

Surgeons in southern China successfully removed a rusty 10-centimetre knife from the skull of a man who said it had been there for four years, the hospital said. Li Fuyan, 30, had been complaining of severe headaches, bad breath and breathing difficulties but never knew the cause of his discomfort, a senior official at the […]

Britain is preparing to let in some 20,000 skilled Indian workers every year, a media report said, citing secret documents. The Indian migrants, most of them skilled information technology professionals, are to be allowed into the UK every year under the multi-billion-pound European Union-India Free Trade Agreement which is being negotiated in the corridors of […]

HENRY Morello began to lose hope after being stranded in his car in the Arizona desert for five long days in which the 84-year-old drank windshield wiper fluid, used car mats to stay warm and read a car manual from cover to cover to pass the time. Then, he heard a knock on a window […]

CT SCANS, MRIs and other pricey imaging tests are often more for American doctor’s benefit than the patient’s, new research confirms. Roughly one-fifth of tests that bone and joint specialists order are because a doctor fears being sued, not because the patient needs them, a first-of-its-kind study in Pennsylvania suggests. The study comes a day […]