Speech Materals 103 Saudi Prince’s Disneyland Party Cost Almost $20 Million
Saudi Prince Fahd al-Saud booked parts of the theme park near Paris for the weekend of May 22-24, to celebrate his gradu...
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Speech Materals 102 Richard French, Ex-Air Force Lt. Colonel, ‘It Was A UFO And . . . There Were Aliens Aboard It’
French recounted how the Newfoundland incident unfolded decades ago, in the early 1950s, after two UFOs were seen by man...
Speech Materals 101 Over 78,000 people apply to leave Earth forever to live on Mars
More than 78,000 people have applied for the chance to leave Earth forever and live on Mars as part of an ambitious real...
Speech Materals 100 Oprah Winfrey tells Harvard graduates to expect failure on the road to success
The invitation from Harvard University caught Winfrey at a low point. Her new TV network was struggling, branded a flop ...
Speech Materals 099 Mumbai to ban lingerie mannequins in bid to stop forced sexual assault epidemic
Mumbai's municipal council passed a resolution barring stores from displaying scantily-clad mannequins outside city shop...
Speech Materals 098 Lonely Millionaire froze to death in sand container
A 59-year-old man who was found dead in a sand container on a train station platform on Easter Sunday was a lonely milli...
Speech Materals 097 World’s biggest tyre graveyard: Kuwaiti landfill site that is home to SEVEN MILLION wheels
In Kuwait City's Sulaibiya area every year gigantic holes are dug out out in the sandy earth and filled with old tyres -...
Speech Materals 096 Topless Kate photos lead to formal investigation
Two people involved in the publication of topless photos of Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, last year have been formally...
Speech Materals 095 Tomatoes – Tokyo’s latest fashion trend?
The coming of spring brings a coming change in fashion, which in turn prompts many to consider a slight change to their ...
Speech Materals 094 The Philippines: The world’s budget English teacher
The Philippines is fast becoming the world's low-cost English language teacher - with rapid increases in overseas studen...
Speech Materals 093 The audacious plan to end hunger with 3-D printed food
Anjan Contractor's 3D food printer might evoke visions of the "replicator" popularized in Star Trek, from which Captain ...
Speech Materals 092 The 10 Most Valuable Brands in the World
In spite of struggling stock prices and loud public uncertainty over Tim Cook's innovative capabilities, Apple is once a...
Speech Materals 091 Swiss Jeweler Unveils ‘World’s First’ All-Diamond Ring
They say diamonds are a girl's best friend. If that's the case, this ring ought to provide a lifetime of companionship. ...
Speech Materals 090 Japanese firms need more women board members, outside directors and foreigners
Britain is a global leader in the area of corporate governance and there are many lessons that its firms have learned th...
Speech Materals 089 Japan suspends some U.S. imports after genetically modified wheat found
Japan has suspended some imports of U.S. wheat after a genetically engineered version of the grain was found on a U.S. f...
Speech Materals 088 How one of the fattest towns is now also the laziest:Sandwell comes bottom in exercise survey
It's enough to make you want to lie on the sofa with a plate of biscuits... one of the fattest parts of Britain has now ...
Speech Materals 087 Female doctors put NHS under ‘tremendous burden’
Women GPs who only work part-time after having children place a 'tremendous burden' on the NHS (National Health Service)...
Speech Materals 086 Candy Crush Saga: Why Millions Can’t Stop Matching Candy on Their Phones
It all starts with a level you can beat within seconds. You slide three of the same color candy together and they burst....
Speech Materals 085 ‘Beggar’ who sat outside Natwest bank with a ‘hungry and homeless’ sign raked in ?300 A DAY while living in a ?300,000 flat
The homeless man... with a home: Simon Wright has been given an Asbo after it emerged he had been begging for years desp...
Speech Materals 084 Soda addiction as bad for your teeth as meth or crack: study
Excessive consumption of soda - even diet soda - can rot your choppers as badly as ingesting two of the most dangerous n...
Speech Materals 083 ‘Smart fork’ may help you lose weight
Now a new smart eating utensil called the HapiFork will help them count bites during meals, and maybe shame them into ea...
Speech Materals 082 Skechers To Pay Out Over Shape-Up Claims
Shoe manufacturer Skechers will have to pay $40m (?26.13m) to people who bought its Shape-Up trainers after adverts made...
Speech Materals 081 Self-help books can help overcoming depression
Self-help books can help overcoming depression A new study suggests that self-help books are more effective treatments f...
Speech Materals 080 Retirement ‘harmful to health’, study says
Retirement has a detrimental impact on mental and physical health, a new study has found. The study, published by the In...
Speech Materals 079 78,000 People Apply for One-Way Trip to Mars
An ambitious project to establish a human colony on Mars has attracted applications from tens of thousands of would-be a...
Speech Materals 078 Panasonic develops solar lantern for people living without electricity
Panasonic Corp said Monday that it has developed a solar lantern that doubles as a charger for people living without ele...
Speech Materals 077 New Yorkers furious over photos taken through windows
In one photo, a woman is on all fours, presumably picking something up, her posterior pressed against a glass window. An...
Speech Materals 076 Mexican Drug War’s Next Victims: Tarahumara Indian Runners
Tarahumara Indian tribe, renowned for their agility and bare foot running endurance, most of the kids grew up up competi...
Speech Materals 075 Measles surges in UK years after vaccine scare
More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least a million children because of a vaccin...
Speech Materals 074 Lack of sleep blights pupils’ education
Sleep deprivation is a significant hidden factor in lowering the achievement of school pupils, according to researchers ...
Speech Materals 073 Intuitive Surgical’s Robot Surgeons Encounter Human Lawyers
The robot "forever changed my life for the worse," says Zarick, who in December filed a product liability suit against I...
Speech Materals 072 In Google We Trust
Google Inc. is trusted as much as religious institutions by U.K. consumers, but neither are trusted as much as supermark...
Speech Materals 071 Honeybees May Help Search For Landmines
Dogs are well-known for being able to sniff out deadly explosives but they could have a rival in the future - honeybees....
Speech Materals 070 High potassium, low salt can keep stroke risk down
British researchers have demonstrated that those people who consume higher potassium in their diets and cut down salt ar...
Speech Materals 069 Global Retailers Join Safety Plan for Bangladesh
Under mounting pressure to improve working conditions in Bangladesh's garment factories, several of the world's largest ...
Speech Materals 068 Ferrari Driven By Boy, 9: Father Charged
A millionaire businessman has been charged with endangering the life of a child after allowing his nine-year-old son to ...
Speech Materals 067 Early bilingualism develops sharper brain: Study
A new research has demonstrated that adults who have been bilingual since childhood are granted with sharper brains and ...
Speech Materals 066 Dollar-Less Iranians Discover Virtual Currency
Under sanctions imposed by the U.S. and its allies, dollars are hard to come by in Iran. The value of the rial has erode...
Speech Materals 065 Angelina Jolie has double mastectomy due to cancer gene
Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has undergone a double mastectomy to reduce her chances of getting breast cancer. The 3...
Speech Materals 064 Spanish royal family’s popularity at record low
A Spanish government agency poll shows the popularity of the Spanish monarchy has plunged to an unprecedentedly low leve...
Speech Materals 063 Philippine mayor in deadly ambush
Gunmen have killed at least 10 people in an ambush on a local mayor in the southern Philippines, police say. The attack ...
Speech Materals 062 Mexico’s controversial memorial for drug war victims
A controversial memorial has been unveiled in Mexico to commemorate the tens of thousands of people killed during the br...
Speech Materals 061 Man kicked off plane for ‘being too fat’
A man claims he was asked to disembark a Southwest Airlines aircraft for being overweight. Matthew Harper, who weighs ab...
Speech Materals 060 Latin America ‘threatened by rising cancer cases’
Cancer is threatening to overwhelm Latin American countries, experts writing in Lancet Oncology warn. There are far fewe...
Speech Materals 059 Facebook to charge for messages sent to non-friends
FACEBOOK users are to be charged up to ?10 a time to message people who are not in their network of friends. The site wi...
Speech Materals 058 Baby sold on Facebook for drug money
A man in India has been arrested for allegedly trying to sell his new-born grandson on Facebook for drug money, reports ...
Speech Materals 057 Wrinkle Fillers ‘A Crisis Waiting To Happen’
Injectable anti-wrinkle treatments are a "crisis waiting to happen", government health advisers have warned. A review of...
Speech Materals 056 The Length of the Average Cough
If you're like most Americans, you head to the doctor for antibiotics when a hacking cough persists more than a week. Bu...
Speech Materals 055 Stop Killer Robots
WEIRD WORLD: A new global campaign warns of the dangers of "autonomous weapons" - aka killer robot drones - which could ...
Speech Materals 054 Samsung Unveils ‘World’s Biggest Smartphone’
Samsung has unveiled the largest smartphone so far - a 6.3in device called the Galaxy Mega. The size of the phone fits i...