In the Uk 38% of parents believe their sons’ financial future is dependent on them finding a wealthy wife, but only 32% think their daughters need a rich husband. (Scottish Widows/The Daily Telegraph). That’s because women are soon going to run the world, while men watch sport on TV or natter down the pub. Most …
“In the 1960s Black Panthers, inspired by the sermons of Malcolm X, who called on African Americans to defend themselves against racial violence “by any means necessary”, started patrolling black neighbourhoods with guns, claiming it as their constitutional right. This may not have been quite “what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they described …
Of the membership of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s new cabinet more than three-quarters want to honour convicted war criminals like General Hideki Tojo, and one minister wants to rescind a 1995 apology for Japanese war crimes. Some even deny that any atrocities took place and want history textbooks changed to reflect that. Can’t they …
A married couple is suing the Church of Scientology in a Florida Court, claiming they were defrauded out of $420,000, donated to pay for building projects and humanitarian initiatives. This money, they say, was used to “stifle enquiries” into church activities and to bankroll the “lavish lifestyle” the leader, David Miscavige. If people are so …
New research has indicated that eating summer fruit all year round can significantly reduce the risk of suffering a heart attack. The study, which followed 93,600 nurses in the US for 18 years, found that eating strawberries and blueberries every other day cut the heart attack risk by a third. The researchers, from the Harvard …
