…he story of the steamy relationship between billionaire businessman Christian Grey and “unworldly, innocent” literature student, Anastasia Steele. Dr. Faye Skelton used the descriptions of 12 women given to a radio station to create the composite and said most had drawn “comparisons with famous film stars”. “While we don’t want to intrude on anyone’s fanta…
beauty to have her image digitally enhanced to give a false impression of the benefits of using popular beauty products. An advertisement for an Olay anti-aging product featuring Twiggy was banned in 2009. Last year L’Oreal advertisements featuring Julia Roberts and Christy Turlington were banned on the grounds they were misleading. MP Jo Swinson, who is co-founder of the Campaign for Body Confid…
…n the internet. “Often, they want to know more about world events and breaking news. Twitter has emerged as a vital source of this real-time information, with more than 100 million users sending 250 million tweets every day on virtually every topic. As we’ve seen time and time again, news breaks first on Twitter; as a result, Twitter accounts and tweets are often the most relevant resu…
ly superior. For instance, scientists at the University of Nottingham created a microscopic portrait of the Queen to mark the Diamond Jubilee that was so small it could fit on a standard postage stamp 300,000 times. Lena Soderberg’s picture was first used as a test image in 1973. An assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California Signal and Image Proces…
…lso secured the support of several leading liberal figures and youth activists in Egypt, including Wael Ghonim, who played a key role in the uprising that forced Hosni Mubarak to step down in February 2011. Ahmed Shafiq came second to Mohammed Mursi in last month’s first round, in which turnout among the 52 million eligible voters was only 46%. But the former air force commander, who served…
Egypt’s presidential poll results have been delayed by the election authorities, raising further tension across the country. The results had been due to be announced on Thursday, but the election commission said it needed more time to look into complaints presented by the candidates. The Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Mursi and former PM Ahmed Shafiq both claim they won last weekend…
…Council. State media reports of the results following Saturday’s second and final round of the referendum suggested that some 63% of voters had backed the charter. Turnout was low, estimated at 30%. Egyptians are awaiting the official results of a referendum on a controversial draft constitution The electoral commission said it was compiling results from both rounds and that no time had be…
CERN social gatherings and physics conferences. The women sing classic 60s pop songs, as well as their own compositions such as Microwave Love, Collider and My Sweetheart is a Nobel Prize. The gig on 21 July at the annual CERN music festival will be their first performance for five years – and is billed as their last. Jim Halley, manager of the band, said there had been a huge upsurge of in…
VMA 2011: tribute to Amy Winehouse. Amy Winehouse toxicology tests results showed absence of ”illegal substances” in her body at the time of her death, according to a today family statement. Amy Winehouse was found dead at her residence in north London on 23rd of July 2011. Amy Winehouse family’s today statement said: ”Toxicology results returned to the Wineho…
…lymphocytic leukemia and infected their T cells with the virus. When they infused the blood back into the patients, the engineered T cells successfully eradicated cancer cells, multiplied to more than 1,000 times in number and survived for months. They even produced dormant “memory” T cells that might spring back to life if the cancer was to return. On average, the team calculat…
ction with her mom.” Anna Nicole Smith, the buxom reality TV star and former Playboy model who struggled with prescription drug problems, was found dead in a Florida hotel room in February 2007, aged 39. The official cause of death was an accidental overdose of nine prescription drugs, including Valium and Atavan. Anna Nicole Smith’s death followed the devastating loss of her 20-year-old son Dani…
An image of a “barred spiral” galaxy that could help us better understand our own Milky Way has been captured by Hubble space telescope. Most of the known spiral galaxies fall into this “barred” category – which are defined by the pronounced bar structure across their centres. The presence of this structure may be an indication of a galaxy’s age. Two-thirds of…
…ational Front party (FN) said it planned to sue the US singer following the use of the image at her concert in the Stade de France on 14 July. The video had already appeared earlier in Madonna’s 30-nation MDNA world tour, sparking a warning from Marine Le Pen that she was considering legal action. FN vice-president Florian Philippot said the party could not accept “such an odious compa…
The final voting precincts on the west coast won’t even begin to be tallied until early Wednesday morning, but the election could be decided much earlier than that. Polls begin to close at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and results will flood in not long thereafter. Whichever candidate reaches 270 electoral college votes wins the White House. Crucially, Barack Obama won each of the swing states li…
…ent ends weeks of speculation over the cause of Whitney Houston’s death. Whitney Houston was found submerged in the bath of her Los Angeles hotel room on the eve of the Grammy Awards on February 11. In a statement, the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office described Whitney Houston’s manner of death as an “accident”, adding that “no trauma or foul play is suspecte…
…e to the vaccine. ImMucin, a breakthrough vaccine that targets a molecule in 90% of all cancers has been tested on humans for the first time If all goes well, ImMucin could be on the market by 2020. Rather than attacking cancer cells, like many drugs, ImMucin harnesses the power of the immune system to fight tumors. The search for cancer vaccines has until now been hampered by fears that h…
Google has decided to change the way it calculates search results in an effort to make sure legal download websites appear higher than pirate sites. The world’s biggest search engine announced the change in a blog post on its website. The move has been welcomed by record companies in the UK and Hollywood film studios. Google has decided to change the way it calculates search results in an…
2012 Election: voting results so far Alabama (9 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 61% (1,245,221 votes) Barack Obama 38% (787,027 votes) Alaska (3 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 55% (120,329 votes) Barack Obama 41% (90,743 votes) Arizona (11 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 55% (896,302 votes) Barack Obama 43% (707,744 votes) Arkansas (6 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 60% (631,244 votes) Barack Obama 37% (38…
…l Craig and Tom Hardy.” Mike Shallcross describes Eugen Sandow’s vital statistics as “pretty exceptional” – generally much larger than the average man, though with a slim 29 in waist. He had quite a scientific system, which was based on about 18 or 19 exercises with dumbbells, and boasted famous followers such as James Joyce, William Butler Yeats and even the Royal fa…
…ek by blog Damn Interesting, was the “Rapatronic” camera – an ultra-high-speed camera that sat seven miles from the blast site and captured images at high speed – including the image of an 100-ft ball of fire, one ten-millionth of a second after detonation. The images were taken during the Tumbler-Snapper nuclear tests in 1952. The “Rapatronic” camera – an ultra-high-speed camera that…
A US scientific team is embarking on a mission to capture a 3D image of every ant species known to science. The scientists are visiting museums around the world to photograph all of the ant specimens in their collections. They are using a technique that, for the first time, allows microscopic anatomical detail of the insects’ bodies to be photographed. The aim is to make an online catalogue…
Bulgarian police have released a composite image of the suspected suicide bomber who killed five Israeli tourists and a local driver on a bus on 18 July. The bomber, who blew up a bus in the Black Sea resort of Burgas, has not been identified yet. Forensic experts created the image of a dark-haired man with pale skin. The bomber’s head was found at the scene. Bulgarian police have released…
…rts and appears to be already ahead in key state Florida. Early voting results released so far show success in Florida for Mitt Romney but encouragement for Barack Obama in North Carolina • Colorado: 325,810 votes have been cast so far – 126,539 from Republicans and 120,965 from Democrats and 75,030 from unaffiliated voters • Florida: 925,604 votes as mail-in-absentee ballots have been cast…
An anonymous author who works in the pharmaceutical industry wrote several anonymous editorials in this weeks British Medical Journal in which they claim: “Some of the [post-marketing] studies I worked on were not designed to determine the overall risk/benefit balance of the drug in the general population. They were designed to support and disseminate a marketing message.” According to the writer…
Olanow. The most common side effects associated with LCIG treatment involved complications due to inserting the device, abdominal pain, pain during the procedure and nausea. Adverse events occurred in 35 (95%) patients receiving LCIG compared with 34 (100%) in the placebo group. The most common events were complications of device insertion (51%), abdominal pain (42%), procedural pain (32%), and na…
Real Housewives of Miami: Adriana de Moura marries Frederic Marq wearing a grey wedding dressAdriana De Moura was rumored to have already wed her fiancé Frederic Marq five years ago, but The Real Housewives of Miami's star walked down the aisle with the interior…
Beyoncé posts defensive note amid pregnancy rumorsBeyoncé was obviously frustrated with the pregnancy rumors as she posted a sharply worded note to Instagram appearing to address the gossip head-on. The defensive…
Rihanna sues Topshop for $5 million over using pictures of her on T-shirts without her permissionRihanna says she will sue Topshop after claiming they sold T-shirts with her face on it without asking permission. Rihanna's team is said to have told the British high…
Photo: George Michael airlifted to hospital following car crash on M1 motorwayGeorge Michael was involved in a crash in his Range Rover during rush hour on the M1 motorway near St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK, on Thursday. George Michael, 49, was…
Christoph Waltz: Man points gun at him and threatens to blow up studio with hand grenade during Cannes TV interviewChristoph Waltz was left shaken last night after a man pointed a hand-gun at him during a live French news programme TV show and threatened to blow up a studio with a hand…
Mariah Carey's American Idol finale performance branded worst lip-sync of all timeMariah Carey's performance on last night's American Idol finale was so good it had some wondering whether she hadn't lip-synched the entire thing. However, Mariah Carey, 43,…
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