Woman power is a much used and much abused phrase, but it aptly defines Tara Singh Vachani. The daughter of Analjit Singh, chairman of multi-business corporate Max India, Vachani could well have settled down to a life of leisure. But a passion for following her own dreams led her to give up this safety cushion. Vachani, now the CEO of Antara Senior Living – a one-of-a-kind luxury housing home for […]

Daredevils will be flocking to Gurnee in Illinois this summer for the chance to take on Goliath – the world’s tallest, steepest, fastest roller coaster. The latest attraction which opened at Six Flags Great America on Thursday is a wooden roller coaster that breaks three world records. Those brave enough to take a ride on it will be plunged down a 180ft near-vertical drop, as the roller coaster twists and […]

“No-one has ever put a stem cell into a human Achilles tendon before in the UK,” says Andy Goldberg, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. But all of that is about to change. Dr Goldberg is leading the first trial of a new treatment which has been working wonders in racehorses – and could produce the same results in humans. The stem cell treatment for what’s […]

For years people have known that a lack of sleep leads to problems in cognition.  This past week I’ve been pretty much out of it due to a lack of sleep working on projects.  I can remember back in my LAPD days when I worked overnights.  Boy, did I pay for it. Now, according to a new study led by Dr. Sigrid Veasey of the Center for Sleep and Circadian […]

 survey of more than 1,000 men in India has concluded that condoms made according to international sizes are too large for a majority of Indian men. The study found that more than half of the men measured had penises that were shorter than international standards for condoms. It has led to a call for condoms of mixed sizes to be made more widely available in India. The two-year study was […]

You’ve seen Meatless Mondays, vegan restaurants and green drinks become all the rage. You know that vegetables can help you lose weight and fend off chronic diseases. Yet if you’re like most Americans, you probably still aren’t eating enough of them. If you need a little motivation to get your share, here are four surprising reasons to increase your vegetable intake: 1. They fight bloat Although you may associate vegetables […]

More than a million Iraqis have been forced from their homes by conflict this year, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday — a number only likely to rise as Islamist militants and Iraqi security forces battle for control. A humanitarian crisis is brewing, as families who’ve fled fighting with little more than the clothes on their back seek water, food and shelter from the summer heat. Meanwhile, the first of […]

Diamond expert Graham Pearson of the University of Alberta has recently published his findings in the journal Nature which claims that an ocean the size of all of Earth’s oceans combined, or more, exists in the “Transition Zone”  thousands of kilometers beneath the Earth. Pearson found a rare gemstone called Ringwoodite which provides evidence that oceans exist beneath the Earth. Test results showed that 1.5% of the Ringwoodite’s weight was […]

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In September 2013 I wrote about how the battle between the Taliban and the Pakistani government lay in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi. If that urban centre burned, the whole country might as well burn with it. Up till now the government’s offer of talks exposed the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) as unreasonable and illogical, but the government persisted – one unable and the other unwilling to accept the idea that perhaps […]