Wednesday, 24 June 2015

Leicester agree deal for Huth


Leicester City have signed defender Robert Huth from Stoke City on a three-year deal.

The fee for the German centre-half, who spent the second half of last season on loan at Leicester, is thought to be in the region of £3m.

Pellegrini slams Mourinho


Manuel Pellegrini has continued his running feud with Jose Mourinho by criticising his rival's approach to winning.

Pellegrini believes Mourinho wanted personal credit and attention for winning the Premier League title – something the Chilean insists he did not do the previous year when City won the same competition.

Queen forced to leave palace?


QUEEN Elizabeth II may have to move out of Buckingham Palace during much-needed renovations to the residence, which has not been substantially redecorated since she took the throne in 1952, royal officials said Wednesday.

Nine Ways to Handle Nosy People

1. Be aware of the cues that signal nosiness ahead. If you fear that the person you end up sitting next to in a bus, airplane, or waiting room is going to start prying, arrange the situation so that you don’t have to get dragged further into conversation. This can mean pulling out something to read or starting to fiddle with your phone. Or if that doesn’t work, answer a few questions politely and then shift your attentional focus elsewhere.

Never do this if you miss your flight


AN ITALIAN couple learned the hard way that you can’t hail down a moving aircraft similar to a departing bus or taxi.

The iPhone feature that could disappear


IPHONES need to be as thin and sleek as possible, so those home buttons will eventually have to go.

Tuesday, 23 June 2015

Surprising reason we’re putting on weight


LIVING next to a busy road could increase the risk of obesity, the first research into the effects of noise pollution on waistlines has found.

Birth month predicts disease risk


“WE are still masters of our fate; we are still Captains of our souls”, or so goes the famous saying by Winston Churchill, who firmly believed that people shaped their own destiny.

But according to a recent study, it turns out that the writing really is in the stars, and that our destiny — at least when it comes to diseases — has already been determined.

7 mistakes you’ve made in the last hour


YOU’VE put yourself in a lot of danger today — and you don’t even realise it.
Here are common health slip-ups people make every day. How many have you committed?

The danger of sitting down


WE all do it every day — and taking a load off by sitting down seems like a logical way to relax. But the truth is that it can affect you more than you think.