esident Obama and Governor Romney tied with women in battleground states (48-48) is an extreme outlier, defying the trends seen in every other battleground and national poll.” Overall, Mitt Romney has 50% of support among likely voters in the 12 battleground states, while Barack Obama is trailing with 46% support, according to the survey. Without winning women, Barack Obama’s path to victory…
ith us. <<How could you be doing this? You might be ruining his whole life!>>,” said Pauline Moreno. Citing a statistic from the Youth Suicide Prevention Program, Pauline Moreno noted over 50% of transgender youth will have had at least one suicide attempt by their 20th birthday. And ignoring their son’s incessant pleas, Pauline Moreno said, simply was not worth the risk. “What i…
le-income bracket. The retailer had announced numerous closings this year, but this is the largest group of closings to date by far. Hoped for holiday sales to not materialize. Same-store revenue fell 5.2% to date for the quarter at both Sears and Kmart, the company said Tuesday. That includes the critical holiday shopping period, a time that most retailers depend on for a sales surge that will pu…
A Chinese recruit has to stand and take a bottle smashed over her head if she wants to qualify as one of country’s first female bodyguards. The female bodyguards training session, which took place in Beijing, involved 20 women, most of whom are university graduates. The four-week programme is run by trainers from Tianjiao Special Guard Consultant Ltd and is the first open group training for…
International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced that Saudi Arabia will send two female athletes to compete in the London 2012 Games. Sarah Attar will compete in the 800 m and Wodjan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shahrkhani in the judo competition. The Saudi authorities lifted a ban on women from the Gulf kingdom competing in the Games last month. The public participation of women in sport is still fie…
Plane passengers could be obliged to follow a dress code after carriers received many calls from flyers’ rights groups to issue rules on what can and can’t be worn on board an aircraft. The proposal follows a series of high profile incidents including one Phoenix man boarding a plane in lingerie. In June this year, a 65-year-old Phoenix man, who works as a business consultant, sparked…
…ouston was born to a middle class family in Newark, New Jersey in 1963. She was the third and youngest child of Army serviceman and entertainment executive John Russell Houston Jr., who passed away in 2003, and gospel singer Cissy Houston. It was clear that natural talent in music ran through her family. Whitney Houston’s cousins Dionne Warwick and the late Dee Dee Warwick, and also her godmother…
…n several occasions, the report said. Amnesty interviewed lawyers, housing rights activists and academics, both in China and abroad, for its 85-page report entitled Standing Their Ground. It looked at 40 cases of forced eviction from January 2009 to January 2012, nine of which it said culminated in deaths of people who opposed their evictions. “The forced eviction of people from their homes…
Australian PM Julia Gillard has issued an apology to people affected by the country’s forced adoption policy between the 1950s and 1970s. Tens of thousands of babies of unmarried, mostly teenage mothers, were thought to have been taken by the state and given to childless married couples. Many women said they were coerced into signing away their children. Speaking in front of hundreds of the…
A picture of a foetus whose mother Feng Jiamei was forced to have an abortion has shocked China web users. Feng Jiamei, from Shaanxi province, was made to undergo the procedure in the seventh month of pregnancy, local officials said after investigating. Feng Jiamei was forced into the abortion as she could not pay the fine for having a second child, US-based activists said. Rights groups say Chin…
Kim Kardashian and her famous sisters recently launched the Kardashian Kollection at Dorothy Perkins in London, and reportedly send the Duchess of Cambridge a load of free clothing, only to get them send straight back. According to The Examiner, Kate Middleton politely declined to accept any of the free clothing received from Kim Kardashian. The Kardashian Kollection features a lot of figure-hugg…
Nadine Ascencao, Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s ex-girlfriend, has revealed that he tried to turn her against the U.S. and beat her if she wore Western clothing. Nadine Ascencao, 24, says that over the course of her relationship with Tamerlan Tsarnaev, he was transformed from a fun-loving student into an Islamic extremist who shunned American life. She lost her virginity to the Chechen immigrant and said s…
…to Feng Jianmei, the woman who was forced to have an abortion in the seventh month of pregnancy and suspended three people responsible On Thursday night, the city officials apologized to Feng Jianmei, 27, and her family, the report said. She was ”forced to terminate her pregnancy” at a hospital in Zhenping on 2 June, said Xinhua. Officials in Zhenping county claimed she agreed to the a…
he doomed ship – was forced to turn around and head towards the Irish coast after a passenger became unwell on board. A spokesperson for the Titanic Memorial Cruise, which had earlier been battered by 30 ft waves as it crossed the Irish Sea, said the ship turned around and headed 20 nautical miles east so the passenger could be picked up by a Coastguard helicopter and flown to hospital for medical…
Kim and Kourtney Kardashian have landed in London in their typical glamorous style as they launch their own clothing collection with high street retailer Dorothy Perkins. Celebrating their English fashion partnership, the two famous brunettes took over Aqua club in Soho for a lavish star studded bash. The two sisters both looked the part in their matching little black dresses from their new colle…
…ashionably tailored looks and handbags, the Kardashian Kollection includes more than 100 pieces. To make sure you don’t miss out, register now to be the first to buy the Kollection on Sunday, November 4th – visit dorothyperkins.com for details. The full range will go on sale online and in selected stores nationwide from Thursday, November 8th. For your chance to win, complete the entry form online…
…o doubt enjoy the shock value the £50 ($80) leggings will inevitably provide. Potential customers might include performers like Lady Gaga, who infamously wore a dress made entirely of raw meat back in 2010, or singer Jessie J, who has made graphic printed leggings her staple. Black milk Clothing – which specializes in unusual leggings and also sells pairs printed with jellyfish and skeleton…
“himself” with a hoodie and baggy clothes when with the girl. The younger victim began a relationship with “Connor McCormack”, despite having met both “Aaron Lampard” and the real Gemma Barker. In May 2010 the bizarre story took a further twist when the second girl removed “Connor McCormack’s” hat and saw who she thought was “Aaron Lampard”. Ruby Selva added: “As far as the second girl is co…
, at least 24 more people were rescued from the rubble. Rescuers and volunteers, who worked through the night, cheered as they were brought to safety. Earlier, rescue teams said they had located about 40 survivors on the collapsed third and fifth floors of the building. Officials said they were working to extricate the remaining survivors and had passed oxygen cylinders and water to those still tr…
Matthew Fox, the ABC’s Lost star was arrested Sunday after he allegedly assaulted a female bus driver. Matthew Fox, 45, was detained by police on Sunday night and taken into custody in Cleveland, Ohio, after an altercation outside a bar with a female driver after he attempt to get on board a party bus that he was not a guest on. Matthew Fox, the ABC’s Lost star was arrested Sunday after h…
Images of four North Korean female soldiers in heels and Soviet-style hats were released in the latest act of bravado from dictator Kim Jong- un. The images were accompanied by a fresh round of North Korean rhetoric claiming the communist state had “powerful striking means” on standby for a launch. Images of four North Korean female soldiers in heels and Soviet-style hats were released in the la…
t he had cheated on Regina Lasko, with whom he has a 9-year-old son, with female staff members, allegedly including Late Show assistant Stephanie Birkitt. Robert Halderman, then a producer on CBS show 48 Hours, eventually served four months behind bars for the extortion plot. David Letterman has opened up about his indiscretions with female employees and how they rocked television in a tell-all i…
…t won’t release the information until the body has been claimed, Terrel Harris told The Boston Globe. Katherine Russell converted to Islam before marrying Tamerlan Tsarnaev and having his child, 3-year-old daughter, Zahara….
…osed this because I knew it was a rite of passage for many of his former aids, to kind of get in the inner circle you had to be a runner,” Paula Broadwell said at a lecture in October. Linda Robinson, 58, is a respected former U.S. News and World Report correspondent who specializes in security and the military. She is currently an adjunct senior fellow on foreign policy at the Council on Foreign…
According to new reports, police have issued an arrest warrant for Cuba Gooding Jr. after an altercation at a New Orleans bar in the early hours of this morning. Cuba Gooding Jr., 44, is allegedly accused of shoving a female bartender at the Old Absinthe House on Bourbon Street around 2:00 a.m., according to TMZ. The star became agitated and started swearing when bar patrons who recognized began…
DSM-5: Controversial updates to mental health manual to be publishedDSM-5, an update to one of the most important manuals in mental health - known as the bible of psychiatry - is to be published later. Controversy and criticism has…
Recipe: Super slimming mushroom inspired mealMushroom-rich diet followed by Katy Perry, Kelly Osbourne and Roxanne Pallett can help women lose weight without shrinking their bust. The mushroom plan is being touted as…
Mushroom diet: M-Plan promises to help women lose weight still keeping their curvesThe mushroom plan is being touted as the latest weapon for savvy celeb dieters who want to shed pounds quickly but still keep some of their curves. Dubbed the “M-Plan”,…
Why do women’s feet swell during pregnancy?Roger W. Harms, M.D., leading obstetrician at the Mayo Clinic, explains why women’s feet swell during pregnancy. “Your body produces and retains more fluid during…
Embryonic stem cells: Milestone in medical human cloningUS scientists announce that human cloning has been used to produce early embryos, marking a "significant step" for medicine. The cloned embryos were used as a source of stem…
Angelina Jolie plans to have her ovaries removed as she has 50% chance of developing ovarian cancerNew reports reveal that Angelina Jolie is now planning to have her ovaries removed, following a double mastectomy after discovering she's a carrier of the BRCA1…
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