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...
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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,...
Speech Materals 118 The four-day work week
What would you do with your time if you only had to work four, three, or even two days a week? Decades ago, experts pred...
Speech Materals 117 Surprising new research reveals that being HAPPY makes you FAT
A study published last month found that if you are the kind of person who lets your mood affect your eating - that's abo...
Speech Materals 116 Supermarket got Colombian cocaine instead of bananas
Drug traffickers back in Colombia must be going bananas over how their shipment ended up at Danish supermarkets and not ...
Speech Materals 115 Students invent award-winning soap to tackle malaria
Your head is pounding, burning with raging fever, your aching bones feeling like they weigh a ton. Covered in profuse sw...
Speech Materals 114 SoftBank chief aims to create world’s No.1 company
The flamboyant founder of SoftBank, which is close to a $21.6 billion takeover of U.S. firm Sprint Nextel, on Friday add...
Speech Materals 113 Skipping breakfast costs the British economy ?300million
Over half of UK workers give breakfast a miss on a working day. Those who miss out on the morning meal lose 82 minutes o...
Speech Materals 112 Self-Disciplined People Are Happier (and Not as Deprived as You Think)
It's easy to think of the highly self-disciplined as being miserable misers or uptight Puritans, but it turns out that e...
Speech Materals 111 Sweden male train drivers wear skirts after shorts row
A dozen male train drivers in Sweden have circumvented a ban on shorts by wearing skirts to work in hot weather. The wor...
Speech Materals 110 Wolf urine, lion’s roar keep deer from Japan transport
Transport operators in northern Japan are sprinkling wolf urine near roads and broadcasting the roar of lions near train...
Speech Materals 109 Soy Sauce Overdose Sends Teen Into Coma
A 19-year-old survived a dangerous sodium overdose after drinking more than a quart of soy sauce on a dare, according to...
Speech Materals 108 Secret court order forces Verizon to turn over telephone records of millions
The U.S. government has obtained a top secret court order that requires Verizon to turn over the telephone records of mi...
Speech Materals 107 Philippines dog Kabang returns home after face surgery
A dog that lost half her face saving two girls from an oncoming motorcycle has returned to the Philippines after eight m...
Speech Materals 106 Japan’s abandoned bicycles find new homes in developing countries
In Japan, countless numbers of bicycles are abandoned outside stations and on roadsides each year. While many will be tu...
Speech Materals 105 We eat a whole tub of ice cream when we’re sad
A new study suggests that our emotions can make us perceive the taste of food differently - and most significantly, less...
Speech Materals 104 The disturbing new trend for ‘cleansing reduction’ which involves bathing just once a week
Daily showers could become a thing of the past, if a new beauty trend called 'cleansing reduction' takes off. Instead of...
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...
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...