Travel
Eight new natural wonders named
Eight new natural wonders, including the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Mexico and what has been dubbed "the Galápagos of the Indian Ocean," have been added to the World Heritage List.
World Heritage Sites are named by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The sites, both cultural and natural,...
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Sport & Fitness
Blatter: Ronaldo is a slave
FIFA president Sepp Blatter believes Cristiano Ronaldo should be allowed to leave Manchester United for Real Madrid and is a "modern slave".
The Portugal winger is one of the hottest properties in the sport after a superb season at Old Trafford last term and speculation about a move to the Spanish side has dominated the summer's transfer...
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Beauty & Health
Active lifestyle may prevent cancer
TOKYO - Physically active people are less likely than sedentary types to develop cancer, a research group led by the Japanese health ministry announced on Thursday.
Men in the most active group of people surveyed had 13 percent less risk of developing cancer compared with the least active group, and women in the most active group had a 16...
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Internet
iPhone UK websites swamped before Friday launch
LONDON - Apple's new iPhone sold out online in Britain ahead of its Friday launch, defying general consumer gloom as the country's economy threatened to tip over into its first recession in more than a decade.
Carrier O2 said on Tuesday its website had been unable to cope with demand, which peaked at 13,000 per second. It later said it had...
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Car & Traffic
Millions Face Road Tax Hike
Nearly nine million motorists will pay more road tax under the controversial changes to vehicle excise duty, it has emerged.The Government says the reforms - which will cost around 44% of drivers more money - are aimed at penalising the most polluting vehicles.
A third of car drivers are likely to be better off.
Official figures predict...
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Sport & Fitness
Expect the Expected
Eurosport's tennis expert Simon Reed predicts routine progressions for the big two as the men's semi-finals take centre stage.
Looking ahead to the men's semis, there's only one way I can see it going, and it culminates in a Roger Federer v Rafael Nadal final.
Marat Safin's done really well, and he played superbly against Novak Djokovic,...
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Miscellaneous
UK to give waterless washing machine a spin
LONDON - A washing machine using as little as a cup of water for each washing cycle could go on sale to environmentally conscious Britons next year.
Xeros, which has been spun out of the University of Leeds to commercialise the technology, said on Monday the new machines would use less than 2 percent of the water and energy of a conventional...
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Car & Traffic
MG Sports Cars Plan Gets Into Top Gear
MG Sports cars will be made in the UK again from August, the firm's Chinese owners have confirmed.
Shanghai Automotive says it plans to sell MG TFs at more than 40 dealerships in this country.
It bought the Longbridge-based carmaker after it went bust in 2005 and started production in China last year.
In a statement earlier the company...
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Fashion & Lifestyle
Fashion moment with British designer Henry Holland
LONDON - British designer Henry Holland, who first made a splash in the fashion world with his cheeky slogan t-shirts, says London Fashion Week is becoming ever more business-savvy, while retaining its creative edge.
Holland, 25, started his career as a style journalist for a teen magazine, but took a detour in design and now sells clothes...
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Internet
Yahoo introduces two new e-mail address domains
SEATTLE - Yahoo said it introduced two new e-mail domains on Wednesday, allowing users to select new, simpler e-mail addresses ending in ymail.com and rocketmail.com.
The current yahoo.com Web-based e-mail service has more than 260 million users worldwide, so many new users must adopt elaborate addresses because simpler ones are unavailable....
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