When it comes to getting fit, new research has shown that it is never too late to start. Indeed, a recent study from Oslo University Hospital found that getting fit in middle age halves the risk of stroke. “If you’re 50 and not fit, over the next years you can […]
Daily Archives: September 4, 2017
Pyongyang boasted it had tested a hydrogen bomb, a device 10 times more powerful than an atomic bomb, in an underground bunker in the north of the country. North Korea claimed its sixth nuclear test was a “perfect success”, hours after seismologists detected an earth tremor in the area, which […]
Fears have been raised that shifting winds could spark burning embers to spread the fire through the rugged northern edge of LA. Flames have ripped through 2,400 hectares in the La Tuna canyon area in the San Fernando Valley after breaking out on Friday destroying three homes and damaging another […]
Merkel was bounced into beefing up her rhetoric on Turkey during the debate after her main challenger, Social Democrat Martin Schulz, vowed to stop Ankara’s bid to join the EU if he was elected chancellor. Mrs Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert, told a regular government news conference in Berlin: “The chancellor’s […]
North Korea on Sunday conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test, which it said was of an advanced hydrogen bomb for a long-range missile, prompting the threat of a “massive” military response from the United States if it or its allies were threatened. But Chinese equity markets, which have […]
The military training involved long-range air-to-surface missiles and ballistic missiles, South Korea’s joint chiefs of staff said in a statement. And more drills are being prepared with the US forces, the statement continued. The news comes after US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis warned the US would respond to any attack […]
Ant Financial, the maker of the “Smile to Pay” facial recognition payment platform, shows in a demo video how even disguises and multiple people in the background won’t trip up the system. Screenshot by CNET/Ant Financial As part of an effort to lure a younger generation of consumers, a health-focused […]