You need to exercise more and lose weight — and that includes you
Written by By Leigh Dickinson, CNN You’d think that if a woman’s body craves sugar, she would drink a lot of sugar to combat the symptoms. And yet, women — and some men –…
Pendragon posts best performance in eight years as UK car demand soars
Pendragon’s second-quarter car sales were up 32% on the year – its best performance in eight years – as it shrugged off a continuing shortage of new cars in the UK. The car dealer’s…
WannaCry: global cyber attack can’t prevent Christmas shopping season
Reports say hackers stole millions of dollars from Target and Neiman Marcus before season officially opened A global malware attack which briefly shut down hundreds of electronic payments systems in the United States and…
FARC splinter group is growing, now deadly
Former FARC members and fighters disassociated from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) peace agreement and who launched new paramilitary offshoots have been sporadically launching small-scale attacks against civilians in recent months. Authorities…
BIG STORES ARE JUST AS IMPORTANT AS EVER, But It Will Take A New Era to Make Them Useful Again
One of the most interesting charts that we saw at Black Friday 2018 was that for the first time since 2006, big retailers had more online sales than in-store sales. Some context here: At…
Jussie Smollett: his case in pictures – from police interrogation to surveillance video
Courtroom records and interviews from neighbours and friends of the Empire actor show how his story began to unravel, correspondents for the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune write The 44-year-old actor Jussie…
A woman whose dreams of traveling were thwarted by travel costs finally got her dream
Laura Belfield features in today’s Glamour, and her story, “Time Wasters” — which includes the moment of contact with the Great Wall of China — is a testament to how much the chance to…
Plan Your Next Move: Metro Vancouver
Would you buy this in Columbia Heights? Even if you could? Or Hampden’s Harris Place? Metro Vancouver Four LUX building When: 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily The slick, two-tower development in Vancouver’s Rogers…
British real wages fell for eighth consecutive quarter
Prices are higher, rents are higher and household budgets are strained, warns International Monetary Fund Britain’s real wages have fallen for the eighth consecutive quarter amid accelerating inflation, highlighting the squeeze on household budgets…
Sudan’s military allegedly ‘cleansed’ Nuba Mountains of Christians
Written by Staff Writer, CNN The Prime Minister of Sudan is alleging that the country’s armed forces have waged a campaign of “sectarian cleansing” in a five-month campaign that the army has branded “an…