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Rare ‘corpse flower’ blooms in Australia

A 2m-tall flower, known for its pungent odour which has been likened to rotting flesh, has bloomed in Australia. South Australia’s Mount Lofty Botanic Garden has been growing the Amorphophallus Titanium, more commonly called the Corpse Flower, for 10 years, reports BBC. About two weeks ago the plant’s famously pungent flower began to grow, before finally opening on Monday. Matt ...

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What do you look for in your would-be partner?

While evaluating potential mates for a romantic relationship, women pay more heed to men’s negative qualities than positive ones, reserachers found in a study. The study said even if a man has many positive qualities, one or two negative qualities are sufficient for a woman to avoid a romantic relationship with him. The study, published in the journal Personality and ...

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Keep your skin, hair safe from summer wrath

Cleansing is of great importance for the working woman who leaves home to get to work, battling traffic and exposing herself to the grime and pollutants in the air. Always cleanse the skin at night, before going to bed, so that you can remove make-up, stale sweat and oil deposits, as well as dirt and pollutants. A tulsi neem face ...

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Women living around natural vegetation live longer

Women who live close to natural vegetation live longer, compared to women with the lowest levels of greenery near their houses, a study has found. According to researchers, women with the highest levels of vegetation around their houses had a 12 percent lower death rate. The findings showed 41 percent lower death rate for kidney disease, 34 percent lower death ...

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Ecuador earthquake: Desperate search for survivors as deaths rise

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has warned that the death toll from a powerful earthquake which has killed 272 people is likely to rise. There were desperate scenes as rescuers and family members searched for survivors, often with bare hands. Mr Correa said there was evidence that people were still alive under the rubble of collapsed buildings. More than 2,000 were ...

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George Osborne: UK would be ‘permanently poorer’ outside EU

The UK would be “permanently poorer” outside the European Union, Chancellor George Osborne has warned ahead of the in-out vote on membership on 23 June. A Treasury analysis suggests an EU exit could see the UK economy 6% smaller than it would otherwise be by 2030. Mr Osborne said the smaller size of the economy projected in the report was ...

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Theresa May to get enhanced role in EU referendum to win over wavering Tories

17 APRIL 2016 Theresa May is the In campaign’s secret weapon to win over eurosceptics and will be given an enhanced role in the final two months of the referendum, leading pro-EU strategists have said. Senior figures in the Remain campaign believe the Home Secretary’s record in tackling crime and terrorism gives her an unparalleled position to deliver warnings over Britain’s ...

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Bengali surgeon performs world’s first live-streamed surgery

Ansar Ahmed Ullah : On Thursday 14 April the world witnessed the first medical operation streamed live in 360-degree video, allowing medical students and trainee surgeons across the world, including Bangladesh, to view the procedure in real time via website. A surgeon at the Royal London Hospital Whitechapel, Dr Shafi Ahmed said before the operation that he believed the approach, ...

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Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain to make Queen’s birthday cake

The Great British Bake Off champion Nadiya Hussain has revealed that she is to bake the Queen’s 90th birthday cake. The winner of the popular BBC show said she would be serving an orange drizzle cake with orange curd and orange buttercream. Revealing the news on ITV’s Loose Women, Hussain said the cake would be “very citrusy”. She had considered ...

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Five held by anti-terror police in Birmingham and Gatwick

Five people have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences as part of an investigation launched after the recent attacks in Paris and Brussels, West Midlands Police say. Three men, aged 26, 40 and 59, and a 29-year-old woman, were arrested in Birmingham on Thursday night. A fourth man, 26, was arrested at Gatwick Airport in the early hours of ...

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