Speech Materals 168 Indian village bans mobile phone use by women
A village council in the eastern Indian state of Bihar has banned the use of mobile phones by women, saying the phones w...
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Speech Materals 167 Gov’t to spend Y47 bil on Fukushima water crisis, including ice wall
The Japanese government on Tuesday (Sept. 3, 2013) pledged 47 billion yen to contain leaks and decontaminate radioactive...
Speech Materals 166 EU says China guilty of giving illegal aid to solar industry
European companies accuse Chinese rivals of benefiting from unfair state aid allowing them to dump about 21 billion euro...
Speech Materals 165 Why falling in love makes you FAT: Two-thirds of couples put on two stone after getting into a relationship
More than 60 per cent of people put on weight when they are in a comfortable relationship and 72 per cent also think the...
Speech Materals 164 US needs European friends right now’: Swedish Politcal Scientist said
Sweden's support of the EU-US free-trade agreement could be one reason for President Barack Obama's decision to visit Sw...
Speech Materals 163 5 Tech Products That Will Be Dead in 5 Years
With the speed of innovation in the tech industry, we can't know every piece of technology that will fill our everyday l...
Speech Materals 162 Dunkin’ Donuts to take on Krispy Kreme in a bid to crack UK market 20 years after pulling out of Britain
Dunkin' Donuts is to square up to Krispy Kreme in what promises to be an epic clash of the fried dough treat. The US cha...
Speech Materals 161 Countries without McDonald’s
McDonald's Corp. is the world's largest restaurant chain, with 34,480 restaurants in 119 countries. The burger chain has...
Speech Materals 160 Climate strongly affects human conflict and violence worldwide, says study
Shifts in climate are strongly linked to human violence around the world, with even relatively minor departures from nor...
Speech Materals 159 China ’employs 2 million to police internet’
China has around two million people policing public opinion online, according to a state media report that sheds light o...
Speech Materals 158 China Couple Speak Of ‘Forced Abortion’
A couple from Shandong Province tell Sky News how authorities terminated a pregnancy to enforce the country's one-child ...
Speech Materals 157 Religion could disappear by 2041 because people will have replaced God with possessions, claims leading psychologist
Religious people in many developed countries will be a minority by 2041, according to one Irish biopsychologist. This tr...
Speech Materals 156 Oprah Winfrey racism row over Switzerland shop incident
Billionaire U.S. media mogul Oprah Winfrey says she was the victim of racism on a recent trip to Switzerland when a shop...
Speech Materals 155 Russia steps up military expansion
Vladimir Putin announced ambitious plans to revive Russia's military power and restore its role as the world's leading p...
Speech Materals 154 Lithuanian capital to install public ‘happiness barometer’
The mayor of Vilnius plans to install a huge screen on the town hall to broadcast a real-time "happiness barometer" that...
Speech Materals 153 Jobless face benefit cut unless they learn English:UK
Around 100,000 immigrants on jobseeker's allowance and related benefits have worse English than the average nine-year-ol...
Speech Materals 152 BBC reveals 2,500-hour World War I season
The BBC has revealed how it plans to mark the centenary of World War I. Programming and events will span four years, acr...
Speech Materals 151 First taste of test-tube burger declared ‘close to meat’
The world's first laboratory-grown beef burger was flipped out of a petri dish. with food tasters declaring it tasted "c...
Speech Materals 150 Dubai offers gold to fight obesity epidemic
Dubai's government will pay residents in gold for losing those extra pounds as part of a government campaign to fight gr...
Speech Materals 149 China halts import of New Zealand milk powder because of botulism bacteria
China halts imports of milk powders produced by a New Zealand company. The import ban comes after a botulism-causing bac...
Speech Materals 148 Would you trust a doctor in a T-shirt?
A senior British doctor has complained that junior members of her profession are getting too scruffy. But since doctors ...
Speech Materals 147 World’s most depressing ‘city’: Syrian camp which is home to 160,000 refugees is now Jordan’s fifth largest city
There are about depressing home of 160,000 refugees who have escaped the brutal Syrian civil war. Incredibly, 6,000 peop...
Speech Materals 146 McDouble Called The ‘Cheapest, Most Nutritious And Bountiful Food’ In Human History: How The $1 McDonald’s Hamburger Earns The Title
Long touted as the pinnacle of the American dream, then later renounced for its dangerous health risks, McDonald's has n...
Speech Materals 145 Leftover Food-Trading Apps
Sometimes leftover food just loses its appeal on the second day it sits in the fridge, which can be quite wasteful. 'Lef...
Speech Materals 144 Is it OK to take your shoes off at work?
Temperature is rising. Feet are getting hot... so hot that Nick Clegg (Uk's Deputy Prime Minister) removed his shoes in ...
Speech Materals 143 Harvard scientists say coffee ‘could halve risk of suicide’
In a study published by the Word Journal of Biological Pyschiatry, researchers analysed the caffeine consumption of more...
Speech Materals 142 Escalator etiquette: The dos and don’ts
Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York, has said he always walks on escalators. Good exercise, yes, but some cities discou...
Speech Materals 141 U.S. businessman held hostage by his workers in China
Chip Starnes, co-founder and president of Specialty Medical Supplies China, has been trapped in the company's suburban B...
Speech Materals 140 The slimy secret of eternal youth: letting live SNAILS crawl across your face, Japan introduced
A revolutionary new facial that involves allowing live snails to slither across the complexion has been hailed the next ...
Speech Materals 139 Saudi Arabia warns pilgrims over coronavirus
Health officials in Saudi Arabia have asked pilgrims visiting its holy sites to wear masks in crowded places to stop the...
Speech Materals 138 Want to be richer, more successful and live longer? PALM SURGERY is on the rise in Japan
Palmistry is hugely popular in Japan where palm readers charge optimistic customers upwards of ? 50 a session to tell th...
Speech Materals 137 Indonesian province bans female secretaries
The governor of an Indonesian province on Saturday said he had ordered his top staff to replace their female secretaries...
Speech Materals 136 Governments lose trust as corruption soars
Have you recently paid a bribe to a local politician, judge or police officer? If so, you're not alone. More than one in...
Speech Materals 135 Global population to soar to 11 billion by 2100 as African population quadruples
The world's population will reach almost eleven billion by the end of the century because of soaring birth rates in Afri...
Speech Materals 134 Exercising your face with a pair of RUBBER LIPS will make you look ‘youthful and vibrant’, say Japanese designers
The lengths people are willing to go to own a pair of plumped cheeks and a line-free complexion are well-documented, but...
Speech Materals 133 Can you be electrocuted by your smartphone?
Could your smartphone really give you a lethal electric shock? That question was on the minds of many Monday (July 15) a...
Speech Materals 132 Toxic Derbyshire ‘Blue Lagoon’ dyed black
A pool at a disused Derbyshire quarry, known locally as the Blue Lagoon, has been dyed black in a bid to deter people fr...
Speech Materals 131 U.S. has stolen millions of text messages from Chinese phones
The U.S. is stealing Chinese cell phone data, according to whistle-blower Edward Snowden(a former CIA agent) U.S. had sn...
Speech Materals 130 Qatar gets its first World Heritage site
Qatar's youthful new ruler, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, has acquired another jewel in his burgeoning crown. The arc...
Speech Materals 129 New pollution high as haze chokes Singapore
Pollution levels reached a new record high for a third day in a row in Singapore, as smoky haze from fires in Indonesia ...
Speech Materals 128 Michael Jackson went 60 days without real sleep
Michael Jackson died while preparing to set a world record for the most successful concert run, but he unknowingly set a...
Speech Materals 127 Venezuela and Nicaragua offer NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden asylum
Presidents Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua and Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela said Friday they were willing to grant asylum to N...
Speech Materals 126 Stop Staring at Your Facebook Profile: It Could Be Making You Stupid
People used to log onto Facebook to spy on old flames and check out new crushes. Now it seems like they are more interes...
Speech Materals 125 Digital distraction’ causes 20 million UK passengers to miss their bus or train stop every year
An estimated 20 million passengers miss bus or train stops each year because of 'digital distraction' from their smartph...
Speech Materals 124 Chinese beachgoers frolic in a thick green algae that keeps returning despite 20,000 tonnes being removed in last few days
Beachgoers frolicking in swathes of green algae on the beach in Qingdao in the eastern Shandong province. Around 20,000 ...
Speech Materals 123 Can we make ourselves happier?
Can we make ourselves happier? According to studies from all over the globe collated by the World Happiness Database in ...
Speech Materals 122 British man survives 15th floor fall in New Zealand
A British man has survived a fall from the 15th floor of a building in New Zealand, local media report. Tom Stilwell fel...
Speech Materals 121 Brazil protests expand to over one million people
More than a million Brazilians poured into the streets of at least 80 cities Thursday in this week's largest anti-govern...
Speech Materals 120 Brain power! Helicopter becomes the first to be flown using the power of thought
A remote controlled helicopter has been flown through a series of hoops using the power of the human mind. This it the f...
Speech Materals 119 19 firefighters killed in Arizona forest fire
A sudden windstorm turned an Arizona forest fire into an out-of-control inferno that trapped and killed 19 firefighters,...