• Clinical anxiety is becoming a worry

  'I worry if I'm a good person' - psychology student Emma Campbell, who suffers extreme anxiety attacks. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the ...

• Suspected gas explosion in Nottinghamshire house injures five

  At least five people were injured in what is believed to have been a gas explosion at a house in Nottinghamshire.The house was severely damaged in the blast at around 5.10pm on Wright street, Newark, according to Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service.The five injured people are thought to have been injured in the explosion. Initial reports said that some had to be rescued ...

• Star Trek is No. 1 movie $70.6M

  $84.1 million for the four and a half days that it has been open. Though nothing to scoff at, it’s still underperforming according to initial projections which hoped for a $100 million extended weekend and $80 million on the three-day. The first Star ...

• Health fears over high fresh food price

  The price of fruit and vegetables in Perth is rising faster than for snacks and confectionery, prompting warnings of a worsening nutrition crisis.Fruit prices rose 18.8 per cent and vegetables 10.7 per cent between September 2010 and March this year, while snack foods and sweets prices rose just 4 per cent, Perth's consumer price index revealed.The figures came as experts said food could ...

• Ross River vaccine close

  A vaccine against the debilitating Ross River virus could soon be a reality as an Australian trial reaches its third and final stage.Trials in Europe and Australia had shown good protective responses from a vaccine in development, David Smith from the University of WA school of pathology and laboratory medicine said."It's a new vaccine, so we assume that protection is long-lasting, but ...

• You’ve been framed Sunglasses of the season

  Don't miss a second of any brief appearance the sun might make: Gemma Hayward and Emma Akbareian choose the sunglasses of the season and explain who should wear which and ...

• Fashion Audit Learned literature Tacky tats and new Choos

  The latest film that has us reaching for the popcorn is the new Liberace biopic, Behind The Candelabra, an adaptation of the memoir of Scott Thorson, the pianist's young lover. Michael Douglas stars as the flamboyant performer with Matt Damon as the object of his ...

• Maids to measure Forget the taffeta and ruffles bridesmaids are going down the aisle in style

  Brides are shunning traditional flounces, frills and dubious themes and turning to the high street instead to dress their bridesmaids in style, says Libby ...

• The latest mens grooming fad laser hair removal for Hobbit feet

  Dr Michael Prager, a dermatologist based near the infamous Harley Street, said the number of men visiting his clinic to have laser hair removal on their feet had doubled since last year.He told ...

• Lawyers treatment of gang grooming victims prompts call for reform

  "I want to ask you once more why you are telling lies?" demands defence barrister Tayyab Khan. He is cross-examining a witness on her evidence relating to the multiple violent rapes she suffered at the instigation of a child-grooming gang operating in the West Midlands."No," she says. "I'm not telling lies." She breaks down, but the court transcript shows the ...

• Jobseekers and benefits data release postponed by DWP

  benefits as a result of a tougher sanctions regime introduced by the coalition in October.The DWP said there were "some significant doubts about the quality of the new regime statistics", due to have been published this week, adding it was not possible to give a date when they would be in a form fit to print.Ministers have also suspended planned publication of the figures from ...

• Workfare placements must be made public tribunal rules

  The DWP has been ordered to publish the names of firms taking part in the controversial schemes. The setback follows a recent ruling that staff had been unlawfully made to work unpaid for organisations including Poundland. Photograph: Martin Argles for the ...

• Man mugged outside 24 Hour Fitness

  DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO -; A man in his 30s was beaten and robbed outside the 24 Hour Fitness at Horton Plaza on Sunday morning, the San Diego Police Department ...

• Alexander Fury ‘Issie’ Blow the pioneer who gave us style – and bags of it

  As you may or may not have heard, the life and wardrobe of the late Isabella Blow will be celebrated in an exhibition entitled Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore!, opening at London's Somerset House in ...

• Test your beer logo IQ

  The first long weekend to kickstart summer is here. Family get-togethers, BBQS and a drink or two will be on the agenda for many Canadians. To whet your appetite, we've got a beer quiz for you. How many of these logos can you ...

• Motherlode Blog Ending the Secrecy of a Child’s Addiction

  Almost two years ago my wife and I became aware that our 22-year-old son, William, was using heroin. At the time he was already seeing a psychotherapist. Over the next two years we added an addiction psychiatrist, out-patient treatment, treatment with Suboxone, in-patient detox, in-patient treatment, out-patient treatment, out-patient detox, treatment with Vivitrol, more out-patient treatment, ...

• SNL A Lovely Day ends an era

  career during his last show 10 years ago.) I’d say that mark was met — and possibly exceeded — by the closing sketch of tonight’s show, in which Fred Armisen (as punk rocker Ian Rubbish, first introduced when Vince Vaughn hosted a few weeks ago) sang a sweet original tune filled with simple, evocative lyrics like, ';It’s been all right, I’ve had a lovely ...

• Rock Hall of Fame Blah blah BLAH

  Image Credit: Kevin Kane/HBO It’s always been a great irony of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame that induction ceremonies might be the least rock ‘n’ roll thing ever. But Public Enemy, Rush, Heart, Donna Summer, Quincy Jones, Lou Adler, Albert King, and Randy Newman took their spots in the canon last night — the actual ceremony happened at L.A.’s Nokia Theater in ...

• Three killed in Vegas highway crash wrong-way driver blamed

  Three people were killed and four others were critically injured Sunday in a collision involving an apparent wrong-way driver in Las Vegas, police said. The Nevada Highway Patrol said an Acura was traveling north in the southbound lanes of Interstate 15 and plowed into an oncoming sport utility vehicle. Both drivers and a passenger in the SUV were killed. Four others were taken to hospitals in ...

• Lifestyle Facebook blocks social suicide app

  Social Roulette mimicked the lethal game of Russian Roulette, in which players spin the cylinder of a revolver hoping to avoid the one loaded ...

• Law Minister Kapil Sibal speaks to Sports Minister Jitendra Singh proposes anti-fixing law

  New Delhi : In the wake of controversy over spot-fixing in IPL matches, the Sports Ministry has started holding consultations with the Law Ministry to draft a new law to deal with betting in sports."Yes, I talked to (Sports Minister) Jitendra Singh.We will soon draft a new law to deal with the malice of betting," Law Minister Kapil Sibal told PTI in New Delhi today.He said the ...

• Government mulling a new law to deal with betting in sports

  Yes, I talked to (Sports Minister) Jitendra Singh.We will soon draft a new law to deal with the malice of betting," Law Minister Kapil Sibal ...

• Sports Roman Abramovich to pay over £30m for Wayne Rooney

  Chelsea claim Roman Abramovich would be prepared to splash out over 30million for Rooney and match his 250,000-a-week United salary. It is believed Abramovich is determined not to be outbid by Paris Saint-Germain for Rooney and will blow any interest from Arsenal out of the ...

• Sports CHELSEA are set to sell Fernando Torres

  And that is why Chelsea hope today's match against Everton will be his final one. Overall, Torres has 34 goals in 130 appearances since signing from Liverpool in January 2011. That equals more than 2m a goal when you add his 22m pay to the 50m transfer fee. Incoming boss Jose Mourinho wants a new-look attack and hopes to splash 70m on Napoli star Edinson Cavani and Bayer Leverkusen's ...

• Germans blame euro zone crisis for Eurovision debacle

  BERLIN (Reuters) - Germans lamented their unexpectedly poor showing at the Eurovision Song Contest, blaming Chancellor Angela Merkel's tough stance in the euro zone crisis for their failure to win any points from 34 of the 39 countries voting. Denmark's Emmelie de Forest won the event, watched by around 125 million people across Europe, with 281 points while German act Cascada was 21st ...

• Pope warns Church against closing in on itself

  VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis warned the Catholic Church to not close in on itself at a Mass to mark Pentecost Sunday attended by more than 200,000 people, urging the faithful to be open and present in a new and changing ...

• Hundreds of students athletes get free sports physicals

  BILOXI, MS (WLOX) - Local physicians helped hundreds of South Mississippi high school students wanting to throw, kick or dribble a ball get the medical all clear to play. Bienville Orthopaedic Specialists and Encore Rehabilitation gave free sports physicals to 1,400 students on Saturday for the 2014 - 2015 school year. The students attend 14 high schools in Harrison and Jackson counties. ...

• Sports Ferdinand to sign new Man Utd deal

  The deal - approved by incoming manager David Moyes - ends any doubts over the future of the 34-year-old, who would have been out of contract next ...

• Sport picture of the day David Beckham bows out in Paris

  At the point where David Beckham sees his number is up during the second half of PSG's Ligue 1 match against Brest, the former England midfielder becomes emotional, applauding the crowd as he is ...

• Grace and Mary by Melvyn Bragg – review

  Melvyn Bragg 's latest novel, the 71-year-old John coaxes his 92-year-old mother into a chorus of the Hokey Cokey. "Their voices rose and the nurse who had stopped outside beckoned a fellow nurse and her patient in a wheelchair to listen." Slowly the song builds momentum: "The audience and the chorus swelled along the corridors of the nursing home as they all sang." ...

• Top beers for outdoor adventures this summer

  Being outdoors beer in hand – it's the definition of what long weekends ought to be about. As much fun as it can be to let it all hang out for a few days, it’s important to remember that there are some activities that don’t mesh well with drinking beer. Any activity that involves an outboard motor is the kind that you should not mix alcohol with. Same goes for fireworks. ...

• Mutko Lauds Rebirth of Sports Units in Russian Army

  MOSCOW, May 19 (R-Sport) - Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has hailed the arrival of the first all-athlete military units since Soviet times. Thirty-six athletes who could represent Russia at the Sochi Olympics took their military oath Sunday at Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Moscow. "Sports units are the right decision from the point of view of the economy and the strategy for ...

• I dont want children but worry my husband is getting broody

  A young woman loves her lifestyle too much to want children, but worries that her husband feels differently. Mariella Frostrup says suffragettes did not fight for such shallow ...

• Lifestyle Why better sound is big business

  Tinie Tempah's Pass Out , some Jessie J and One Direction. I downloaded the tracks I didn't have and at the party, after an hour's football, followed by snacks and one of those mass pile-ons that small boys love (why?), I put my phone into the dock and pressed ...

• European Union finds time to tell restaurants how to serve olive oil

  Brussels: Critics ridiculed European Union bureaucrats on Saturday for taking time off fighting the euro zone's debt crisis to impose strict new rules on how restaurants serve olive oil.From January 1, 2014, eateries will be banned from serving oil to diners in small glass jugs or dipping bowls, and forced instead to use pre-sealed, non-refillable bottles that must be disposed of when ...

• Sports David Beckhams emotional farewell

  As he left the pitch, an emotional Beckham clapped his supporters. He later lifted the Ligue 1 trophy. Speaking after the match, Beckham said, "The emotion started kicking in, it was hard to run, let alone kick a ball." "I still feel good, but I know it's the right time [to ...

• South Africa IFP Wants R65 Million Sports Awards Budget Readjusted

  "Our nation's sportsmen and women must be celebrated for their achievements and rewarded accordingly. However, spending R65 million on an event is beyond excessive and the department needs to cut down the amount of money used for the Sports Awards", said the IFP spokesperson on Sports and Recreation, Mr. Mkhuleko Hlengwa MP. The IFP's main concern revolves around the fact ...

• Saudi woman scales Everest summit as country warms to women in sports

  Saudi woman Raha Moharrak reached the summit of Nepal's Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, in a first for the conservative Muslim kingdom where women's sports are severely restricted, tourism officials said on ...

• Sports Briefing | Track and Field Jamaicans Capture Sprint Races at Diamond League Meet

  Jamaica dominated the sprint races at the Diamond League meet in Shanghai, with Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce winning the ...

• Sports Briefing | Basketball Mike Krzyzewski Could Coach United States Team

  Mike Krzyzewski is no longer ruling out a return as coach of the United States Olympic ...

• Sports on the air

  Web.com Tour, BMW Charity Pro-Am 2 p.m. LPGA Tour, Mobile Bay Classic 9:30 p.m.* Auto racing 9 a.m. IRL IndyCar Indy 500 Bump Day 11 a.m. ARCA Toledo 200 SPEED 1 p.m. Australian V8 Supercars Austin 400 SPEED p.m.* NHRA Kansas Nationals Motorsports a.m. MotoGP World Championship French Grand Prix SPEED 9 a.m.* MotoGP Moto2 French Grand Prix SPEED Extreme sports a.m. X Games Barcelona Cycling Tour ...

• Greying China taps rural elderly to care for those even older

  An elderly couple feed their great-grandson with a piece of cake as they sit under the sun in winter in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, January 9, ...

• UPI Sports Calendar for Sunday May 19

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• Lifestyle block-living still the Kiwi dream

  Figures released by the Real Estate Institute show lifestyle block-living is still the New Zealand dream. 16 per cent more lifestyle blocks were sold during the year ended in March, compared with the previous year. Auckland had the largest increase, with about 150 more sales recorded during this time. A spokesman from the institute Brian Peacocke says the lifestyle market ...

• Sports Briefing | Soccer Paris St.-Germain Victory in Last Home Game for David Beckham

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic stole some of the spotlight from David Beckham, scoring two goals to lead the French champion Paris St.-Germain to a 3-1 home win against Brest. Beckham, who announced Thursday that he would retire at the end of the season, was given a standing ovation as he left the field in the 81st ...

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