Paris Hilton wants to paint the White House pink if elected. She was declaring her desire to campaign against “that wrinkly white-haired guy” referring to the Republican candidate John McCain. That was in fact response to the controversial use of her image in a campaign television spot last week. The ad compared Democratic rival […]

Miss Venezuela, 22-year-old Dayana Mendoza, won the Miss Universe pageant held in Vietnam on Monday, beating models from three other Latin American countries and Russia.
Mendoza, 178-centimetre (5′ 10″) beauty, clinched the diamond-studded gold crown after answering a question on the difference between men and women.
“Men think that the fastest way to go to a point […]

“Don’t drink and fly!”
That is what the Indian authorities are telling their pilots. But still, pilots in India often fail alcohol tests.
A flight from India’s capital, Delhi, to the eastern city of Patna was canceled Saturday after a routine medical test on crew members revealed the pilot had consumed alcohol.
According to Indian civil aviation authorities […]

The alarming number of overweight folks are affixed either to their work, or TV, or computer with not much time for physical activities.
Canadian video game developer from Toronto has an idea to cash on these unhealthy habits of the video gamers. Well, it is a game for hand held device; but don’t expect to loose […]

In a latest study, Nauru tops the list of countries with the greatest percentage of overweight people, with an alarming 94.5% of its adult population (ages 15+) classified as such, based on the most recent estimates by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Nepal ranked 189, 6th from the bottom, with 8.5% of the population overweight. […]

Vimla Atwal, 35, and 29 other female toilet cleaners are going to take part in a fashion show in New York. Thanks to a rehabilitation program run by a local firm, Sulabh International, these ladies are participating in a series of events by the United Nations to mark the International Year of Sanitation.
During their […]

Do you know Hindu people drink cow urine for therapeutic and religious purposes? Sounds awkward but it is true. Now, researchers are trying to prove it is not a mere myth.
But it is not to be forgotten that urine is a product excreted through kidneys and contains the waste metabolites. It can also contain […]

The Delhi High Court, India, recently upheld the policy of Indian Airlines to ground overweight air hostesses. A bench headed by Justice AK Sikri dismissed the petition filed by some Indian Airlines air hostesses, who were grounded due to putting on weight excessive to the limit fixed by the airlines.
The court had on May 5 […]

What do you do when you realize that you have been divorced for the last ten years without your knowledge and that too being happily married all the time? Well, that was what happened to a couple in India who realized that the government record show they have been divorced for a decade.
Meena Verma, […]

Nepal has registered itself as the newest republic in the world with a recent declaration to convert the kingdom to a federal democratic republic. Now onward the king is considered an ordinary citizen.
The first sitting of the Constituent Assembly (CA) unanimously declared Nepal a republic late on Wednesday night, with only four votes against the […]