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188 Do children’s toys influence their career choices?

Everyone has memories of toys they loved playing with as a child. It might be building blocks or a train set, a doll hou...
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187 Marijuana waste helps turn pot-eating pigs into tasty pork roast

With Washington state about to embark on a first-of-its-kind legal market for recreational marijuana, the budding ranks ...
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186 Is your job making you fat?

You might expect that being a chef puts you at the highest risk of putting on weight, but you’d be wrong. New research h...
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185 How safe is food served by pop-up street outlets?

Street food is increasingly popular across the UK with a boom in outlets and festivals dedicated to the cuisine. But how...
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184 Goats attract animal-lovers at Tokyo cafe

At Sakuragaoka Cafe, customers can get up close and personal with Sakura and Chocolat, two goats belonging to cafe owner...
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183 Telling The Elderly That They Are Forgetful Can Make Their Memory Worse

Simply telling grandma that she forgot your birthday because she's getting older might exacerbate her memory problems. A...
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182 GlassesOff app claims to eliminate need for reading glasses

Like death and taxes, reading glasses can seem almost inevitable -- perhaps until now. A new app called GlassesOff claim...
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181 Philippines Bicycle Company Says Its Products Protect Environment

Can bicycles help the Philippines reduce poverty and protect the environment at the same time? A social entrepreneur who...
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180 One man’s trash … the jewelry made from boiled bones

In many African cultures, every part of a slaughtered cow is used. Nothing goes to waste, not even the bones. Following ...
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179 Kyushu Railway unveils super-luxury train

A Japanese railway operator on Friday unveiled a new super-luxury train it hopes will appeal to well-heeled travellers w...
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178 Japanese kindergarten ordered to pay $1.8 million over tsunami deaths

In the first ruling of its kind in Japan, a court has ordered a kindergarten to pay almost $2 million to the parents of ...
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177 Japan media: Euphoria over Olympics

Japanese media are euphoric about Tokyo being chosen to host the 2020 summer Olympics. Tokyo jubilant over successful 20...
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176 Helene Gayle: Meet the CEO feeding the world

Helene Gayle must be one of the few chief executives who dreams of a world where her job doesn't exist. In fact, the pre...
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175 Can wind towers take the heat off UAE’s air-con addiction?

According to the World Bank, the emirate is now one of the largest consumers of energy per capita in the world -- and an...
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174 Eiji Toyoda, Driver of Global Expansion, Dies at 100

Eiji Toyoda spent half his life managing Toyota Motor Corp. and played an integral role in Japan's rise to the top of th...
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173 Vietnam capital to reassign obese, rude traffic cops: paper

Pot-bellied, short, or abusive traffic policemen will be barred from working on the streets of Vietnam's capital and ass...
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172 UK firm sorry for making jobseekers dance at interview

British electronics retailer Currys issued an apology after admitting that interviewees trying to earn a job as a sales ...
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171 Sugar is ‘the most dangerous drug of our time’ and should come with smoking-style health warnings, says Dutch health chief

Sugary foods and drinks should come with a smoking-style health warning, according to a leading Dutch health expert. Pau...
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170 Sarin: The Nerve Agent Used To Kill 1,400 Syrians

On Sunday (Sept 1, 2013), the Obama administration indicated evidence that the Syrian regime has relied on chemical warf...
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168 Indian village bans mobile phone use by women

A village council in the eastern Indian state of Bihar has banned the use of mobile phones by women, saying the phones w...
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167 Gov’t to spend Y47 bil on Fukushima water crisis, including ice wall

The Japanese government on Tuesday (Sept. 3, 2013) pledged 47 billion yen to contain leaks and decontaminate radioactive...
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166 EU says China guilty of giving illegal aid to solar industry

European companies accuse Chinese rivals of benefiting from unfair state aid allowing them to dump about 21 billion euro...
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165 Why falling in love makes you FAT: Two-thirds of couples put on two stone after getting into a relationship

More than 60 per cent of people put on weight when they are in a comfortable relationship and 72 per cent also think the...
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164 US needs European friends right now’: Swedish Politcal Scientist said

Sweden's support of the EU-US free-trade agreement could be one reason for President Barack Obama's decision to visit Sw...
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163 5 Tech Products That Will Be Dead in 5 Years

With the speed of innovation in the tech industry, we can't know every piece of technology that will fill our everyday l...
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162 Dunkin’ Donuts to take on Krispy Kreme in a bid to crack UK market 20 years after pulling out of Britain

Dunkin' Donuts is to square up to Krispy Kreme in what promises to be an epic clash of the fried dough treat. The US cha...
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161 Countries without McDonald’s

McDonald's Corp. is the world's largest restaurant chain, with 34,480 restaurants in 119 countries. The burger chain has...
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160 Climate strongly affects human conflict and violence worldwide, says study

Shifts in climate are strongly linked to human violence around the world, with even relatively minor departures from nor...
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159 China ’employs 2 million to police internet’

China has around two million people policing public opinion online, according to a state media report that sheds light o...
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158 China Couple Speak Of ‘Forced Abortion’

A couple from Shandong Province tell Sky News how authorities terminated a pregnancy to enforce the country's one-child ...
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157 Religion could disappear by 2041 because people will have replaced God with possessions, claims leading psychologist

Religious people in many developed countries will be a minority by 2041, according to one Irish biopsychologist. This tr...
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156 Oprah Winfrey racism row over Switzerland shop incident

Billionaire U.S. media mogul Oprah Winfrey says she was the victim of racism on a recent trip to Switzerland when a shop...
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155 Russia steps up military expansion

Vladimir Putin announced ambitious plans to revive Russia's military power and restore its role as the world's leading p...
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154 Lithuanian capital to install public ‘happiness barometer’

The mayor of Vilnius plans to install a huge screen on the town hall to broadcast a real-time "happiness barometer" that...
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153 Jobless face benefit cut unless they learn English:UK

Around 100,000 immigrants on jobseeker's allowance and related benefits have worse English than the average nine-year-ol...
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152 BBC reveals 2,500-hour World War I season

The BBC has revealed how it plans to mark the centenary of World War I. Programming and events will span four years, acr...
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151 First taste of test-tube burger declared ‘close to meat’

The world's first laboratory-grown beef burger was flipped out of a petri dish. with food tasters declaring it tasted "c...
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150 Dubai offers gold to fight obesity epidemic

Dubai's government will pay residents in gold for losing those extra pounds as part of a government campaign to fight gr...
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149 China halts import of New Zealand milk powder because of botulism bacteria

China halts imports of milk powders produced by a New Zealand company. The import ban comes after a botulism-causing bac...
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148 Would you trust a doctor in a T-shirt?

A senior British doctor has complained that junior members of her profession are getting too scruffy. But since doctors ...
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147 World’s most depressing ‘city’: Syrian camp which is home to 160,000 refugees is now Jordan’s fifth largest city

There are about depressing home of 160,000 refugees who have escaped the brutal Syrian civil war. Incredibly, 6,000 peop...
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146 McDouble Called The ‘Cheapest, Most Nutritious And Bountiful Food’ In Human History: How The $1 McDonald’s Hamburger Earns The Title

Long touted as the pinnacle of the American dream, then later renounced for its dangerous health risks, McDonald's has n...
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145 Leftover Food-Trading Apps

Sometimes leftover food just loses its appeal on the second day it sits in the fridge, which can be quite wasteful. 'Lef...
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144 Is it OK to take your shoes off at work?

Temperature is rising. Feet are getting hot... so hot that Nick Clegg (Uk's Deputy Prime Minister) removed his shoes in ...
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143 Harvard scientists say coffee ‘could halve risk of suicide’

In a study published by the Word Journal of Biological Pyschiatry, researchers analysed the caffeine consumption of more...
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142 Escalator etiquette: The dos and don’ts

Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York, has said he always walks on escalators. Good exercise, yes, but some cities discou...
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141 U.S. businessman held hostage by his workers in China

Chip Starnes, co-founder and president of Specialty Medical Supplies China, has been trapped in the company's suburban B...
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140 The slimy secret of eternal youth: letting live SNAILS crawl across your face, Japan introduced

A revolutionary new facial that involves allowing live snails to slither across the complexion has been hailed the next ...
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139 Saudi Arabia warns pilgrims over coronavirus

Health officials in Saudi Arabia have asked pilgrims visiting its holy sites to wear masks in crowded places to stop the...
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138 Want to be richer, more successful and live longer? PALM SURGERY is on the rise in Japan

Palmistry is hugely popular in Japan where palm readers charge optimistic customers upwards of ? 50 a session to tell th...