Does driving a Porsche make a man more desirable to women?
New research by faculty at Rice University, the University of Texas-San Antonio (UTSA) and the University of Minnesota finds that men's conspicuous spending is driven by the desire to have uncommitted...
View ArticleNumber of centenarians hits new high in Japan
The number of people aged 100 or older in rapidly greying Japan has hit a record high for the 41st consecutive year, the government said Tuesday.
View ArticleChina: Bird flu death not from human-human spread
(AP) -- The strain of H5H1 bird flu that killed a Chinese man cannot spread among people, a health agency said Monday, appealing for calm after the country's first reported case of the disease in...
View ArticleWorld tallest man finally stops growing, US doctors say
Good news for Turkey's Sultan Kosen, at eight foot three (2.51 meters) the world's tallest living man: he can now say with confidence that he's finally grown up.
View ArticleTo no longer grow is a 'blessing' for world's tallest man
Turkey's Sultan Kosen, at eight foot three (2.51 meters) the world's tallest living man, says it's "a blessing" he is no longer growing thanks to radiosurgery in the United States.
View Article20 firemen to get 300-kilo French man to hospital
A 300-kilo (660-pound) Frenchman who was unable to leave his home by himself has been hospitalised in an operation requiring 20 emergency workers and a stone mason.
View ArticleFirst man who lived six months without heart mourned by Czechs
Czechs on Thursday mourned the death of Jakub Halik, a 38-year-old fireman, who became the first human ever to have survived six months without a heart on artificial life support, but succumbed to...
View ArticleSaudi man dies of MERS virus
A Saudi man has died of the coronavirus MERS, bringing the kingdom's death toll from the SARS-like virus to 42, health authorities said Wednesday, adding a new case was registered.
View ArticleWorld's tallest man gets married in Turkey
Turkey's Sultan Kosen, at 2.51 metres (eight foot three) the world's tallest man, has wed a Syrian woman he called the "love of my life", though he towers over his 1.75-metre bride.
View ArticleQatar announces third MERS death
An expatriate living in Qatar had died after he contracted MERS, bringing to three the number of deaths from the coronavirus in the Gulf state, health authorities said Tuesday.
View ArticleBird flu subtype re-emerges in Hong Kong
An elderly man has contracted a mild form of bird flu in the first case of its type for four years, Hong Kong officials said on Monday.
View ArticleHong Kong reports first H7N9 case of the year
Hong Kong health authorities on Wednesday confirmed the territory's third human case of the deadly H7N9 bird flu, the city's first of 2014.
View ArticleEducated black men remembered as 'whiter'
A new study out today in SAGE Open finds that instead of breaking stereotypes, intellectually successful Black individuals may be susceptible to being remembered as "Whiter" and therefore 'exceptions...
View ArticleCanadian traveller tests negative for Ebola (Update)
A traveller who returned to Canada from Liberia with symptoms that initially triggered fears of the spread of the deadly Ebola virus was pronounced clear of the disease Tuesday.
View ArticleMalaysia reports first Asian death from MERS virus
A Malaysian man who went on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia has become the first death in Asia from Middle East respiratory syndrome, while the Philippines has isolated a health worker who tested positive...
View ArticleChina reports first death from H5N6 bird flu strain
A Chinese man has died from the H5N6 strain of bird flu, in what is believed to be the world's first case of human infection from the virus subtype, state media and experts said.
View ArticleNetherlands reports first case of MERS virus
A first case of the dangerous Middle East Respiratory Virus (MERS) has been detected in the Netherlands, in a man who had travelled to Saudi Arabia, authorities said Wednesday.
View ArticleCDC: MERS virus spread in US, but 2nd man not sick
Health officials reported Saturday what appears to be the first time that a mysterious Middle East virus has spread from one person to another in the United States.
View ArticleNew MERS deaths take Saudi toll to 173
Saudi health authorities reported Monday new deaths from the MERS coronavirus, taking to 173 the overall number of fatalities from the disease in the world's worst-hit country.
View ArticleFlorida MERS patient released from hospital
A man from Saudi Arabia who is one of three patients diagnosed with an infection from a Middle East respiratory virus in the United States has been released from a hospital.
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