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Your Afternoon Soda Could Be Making You Age Faster A soda a day could be making your skin look older, new research finds. If the threat of heart disease, diabetes, or obesity wasn’t enough to make you put down your afternoon cola, this might: A new study published in the American Journal of Public Health reports that drinking one sugary soda...

100 Years of Healthy Habits: Secrets of Chinese Centenarians At 115, Boxin Huang is the oldest resident of China’s Bapan Village, also called Longevity Village. But he's not extraordinary there, where many live long past 100 years. Cardiologist John Day, MD, of Intermountain Healthcare in Murray, Utah, visited Bapan and the Chinese centenarians and learned fascinating lessons about healthy living and...

Canada's Harper pledges tougher security laws after attack (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper pledged more surveillance and detention powers for security forces in Canada on Thursday after a gunman killed a soldier and raced through parliament before being shot dead. Addressing the House of Commons just meters from the spot where the gunman, a reported convert to Islam, was...

Lebanese soldiers arrested an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) recruiter suspected of beheading a captured soldier, in a raid on Thursday that caught more suspects and killed three gunmen, the army said. In a statement, the military said “terrorist” Ahmad Salim Miqati was arrested in the Dinniyeh neighborhood of north Lebanon during an early morning raid on his...

Israeli policemen stand guard at the scene after a car rammed a group of pedestrians at the Ammunition Hill tram stop, which lies on the seamline between west and occupied east Jerusalem, injuring nine on Oct. 22, 2014. (AFP) Any future attacks on Jerusalem will be met with the “harshest response,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday after a...

Bader al-Darwish and Mark Saunders cut a ribbon to open the Bosch showroom as Saoud al-Darwish looks on. Darwish Technology and the German home appliance giant Bosch have launched a premium flagship showroom of Bosch in Doha. Darwish Holding chairman and managing director Bader Abdullah al-Darwish and BSH Middle East CEO Mark Saunders cut a ribbon. Darwish Holding vice chairman Saoud...

Women’s Hospital to start clinical information system The Clinical Information System (CIS), under which all patient records are stored and accessed electronically to ensure the safest and most effective care, will become operational at the Women’s Hospital of Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) from tomorrow. But officials have advised patients to bear with them if teething problems emerge during the transitional phase,...

The kingdom is the world’s only country where women are not allowed to operate cars. Female drivers in Saudi Arabia will be dealt with “strictly”, authorities said on Thursday before a right-to-drive campaign culminates at the weekend. The kingdom is the world’s only country where women are not allowed to operate cars. Activists said in early October they were revving up their...

DOHA: Lekhwiya leapt to the top of the standings with a scratchy 2-0 win over Al Wakrah in the Qatar Stars League yesterday. Wladimir Weiss and Ali Hassan Afeef found the target in the second half to give the defending champions their seventh win in eight matches that took their tally to 21. Al Sadd stumbled to a 1-1 draw with...

DOHA: Qatar Football Association (QFA) President Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Thani will attend next month’s Gulf Cup matches and meet with regional football body chiefs.     Read the full text news resource site Source News: qfa.com.qa

HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani with President Rafael Correa of Ecuador at the Emir Diwan yesterday. They held a round of official talks, attended by a number of Qatari ministers and members of the delegation accompanying President Correa. Bilateral relations and ways to bolster them in different spheres were discussed.     Read the full text...

Cabinet for full freedom to human rights body Dr. Ali bin Smaikh al- Marri: Qatar’s membership of the Human Rights Council reflects the UN’s confidence in efforts made by Qatar on human rights. The Cabinet yesterday approved a draft law that gave the National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) “full independence” in exercising its mandate. HE the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of...

'Canada will never be intimidated,' Harper says after shootings in Ottawa Two “despicable attacks” on Canadian soldiers this week will not weaken the country’s resolve to fight terrorism at home and abroad, a sombre Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Wednesday. Harper addressed the nation hours after a young soldier was gunned down at the National War Memorial in Ottawa and dozens...

Sid Neigum creations kick off Toronto Fashion Week A model takes to the runway while showing a creation by Sid Neigum, the winner of the Mercedes-Benz Start Up show, during Toronto Fashion Week in Toronto on Monday.        Read the full text news resource site Source News: ctvnews.ca