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Monday, 13 May, 2013
Scientists now know the additional ways the components of walnuts and their extracts lower risks of heart diseases.
Consumption of whole walnuts or their extracted oil can reduce cardiovascular risk through a mechanism other than simply lowering cholesterol, according to a team of Penn State, Tuft
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Monday, 13 May, 2013
I want to raise safety and cleanliness related issues at some of the beaches in the country. Most of the people visit beaches either on their holidays or on weekend days and stay there for long hours and enjoy with family and friends. Their enjoyment, however, gets a rude shock when it comes to rel
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Monday, 13 May, 2013
Oman Air, the national carrier of the Sultanate of Oman, has hailed the success of its participation at Arabian Travel Market (ATM) 2013, the key travel and tourism event held at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre from May 6 to 9.
Chief Executive Officer Wayne Pearce, besides
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Monday, 13 May, 2013
Being an active partner of various community activities, McDonald’s Oman has gone out of its way, delightfully reaching out to the less fortunate children in the local community in Barka in the celebration of ‘Orphan’s Day’. McDonald’s has painted smiles on the faces of orphans by giving away fre
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Monday, 13 May, 2013
Hunting bags made from velvet, precious bags for holding prayer books and Marlene Dietrich's party handbags are among the items at a fashion-history exhibition in Munich that reveals the past in the purse.
Along the way, the exhibition, running until August 25, overturns a widely accepted misconcep
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Monday, 13 May, 2013
In a parking lot near the East River in Manhattan, Adriana Alltari gathers her courage, lifts her feet off the ground and wobbles away on New York's latest mode of public transport: a bicycle.
Alltari, a 32-year-old engineer, was taking part in free bike riding classes as the Big Apple makes final
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Monday, 13 May, 2013
Using a simple smartphone application to photograph one's meals is a useful slimming aid for the overweight, according to an experiment reported yesterday.
The app, designed by British doctors, aims at promoting "food memory" so that people recall what they have eaten and are encouraged not to snac
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Monday, 13 May, 2013
As the Cannes film festival prepares to join in the celebrations for Indian cinema's 100th birthday, one of the biggest names in modern-day Bollywood says the industry is enjoying a new golden age.
Vidya Balan, the star of Bollywood hits such The Dirty Picture, will be among the jurors deciding thi
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Sunday, 12 May, 2013
By Maurice Gent — There was never going to be any doubt that this would be a packed house. This was the first time Richard Wagner’s ‘’The Flying Dutchman” had been performed at the Royal Opera House Muscat, and there was not a spare seat in the House. The adjective, Wagnerian, is often used to sugge
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Sunday, 12 May, 2013
The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has broken above 400 parts per million for the first time in human history, US monitors announced on Friday, indicating a record level for greenhouse gases. Climate scientists say that the symbolic threshold should serve as a call for action to begin re
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