The prices of the commodities on which our manufacturing businesses depend are rising at such an alarming rate that the government has commissioned a study to help understand the reasons for the shortages. There is already evidence that some producers are buying up productive land and stockpiling commodities in order to ensure their own supplies. [...]
The heavy rainfall caused by hurricane Agatha in Guatemala City caused a sink hole 30 metres deep and 15 metres across to suddenly appear in Zone 2 of the city. Local reports suggest that an entire 3-story building disappeared into the hole which may well have been caused, at least in part, by underground collapses [...]
Members of the Israeli Defence Force attacked and boarded ships heading for Gaza carrying ten thousand tons of humanitarian aid, food and medicines. The attack on the flotilla of six unarmed ships that were carrying at least 600 people took place in international waters. This attack, coming only days before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [...]
A petition by 43 of the 1,300 members of the Royal Society has forced the institution to appoint a panel to review its official position on climate change. Until now the Royal Society has been a leader of the lobby advocating that governments should take action to prevent activities likely to contribute to global warming. [...]
Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou told a Greek Sunday newspaper that, “Greece will not need additional measures, especially ‘painful’ measures. I see only one option aead, delivering on our targets with consistency.” This statement comes against a background where markets are fearing that there will be a violent recession in Greece and a social backlash [...]
All over the country today fans were queuing outside Apple stores hoping to be the first to get their hands on the latest invention from Apple, the iPad. The iPad is a kind of hybrid between the company’s hugely successful iPhone and the MacBook Air which pundits say has always been priced too high to [...]
A study by a team from University College London led by Professor Richard Watt into the results of the Scottish Health Survey of 11,000 people shows that those who brush their teeth less frequently have a 70% higher risk of cardiovascular disease than those who brush frequently. The optimum level of brushing is twice a [...]
Nursing homes need to improve their approach to people with dementia is the conclusion of a report by Laing and Buisson a firm of health and social care analysts. The report found training was “fragmented and ad-hoc” with a third of homes failing to provide staff with specialist training. The survey of 6,000 UK care [...]
Private equity firms are starting to invest heavily in health-care companies. They believe that their defensive qualities and steady cash flows will bring in the returns that investors are demanding after two lackluster years. Over the past few weeks alone, the U.K.’s Priory Group and French Medi-Partenaires have come onto the market with price tags [...]
A few years ago I decided to learn how to lose belly fat. I was killing myself doing setups and crunches and my stomach was really bigger than before I started doing them. Clearly, I was not a health expert and was doing something incorrect. Well, after lastly discovering the truth about how to get [...]
