Curvy women may be a clever bet

HEADLINE: Curvy women may be a clever bet
SOURCE LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7090300.stm
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Women with curvy figures are likely to be brighter than waif-like counterparts and may well produce more intelligent offspring, a US study suggests.
Researchers studied 16,000 women and girls and found the more voluptuous performed better on cognitive tests - as did their children.
The bigger the difference between a woman's waist and hips the better

HEADLINE: Foreign cabbies 'all look the same' - MP
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26334258-421,00.html
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An Opposition MP has criticised overseas-born taxi drivers and questioned whether some illegally share the same licence because they "all look the same".

Speaking in Queensland Parliament, LNP MP Vaughan Johnson lashed out at taxi drivers who did not know their way around Brisbane.

"I have got to also touch on some of our brothers from overseas that are driving these taxis, and haven't I had a hell of a drive with some of them lately," Mr Johnson said before detailing his bad experiences including paying $75 for a cab between the airport and city that went via outer Indooroopilly.

HEADLINE: MP calls for politician to be shot
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26330337-23109,00.html
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A KIWI MP has leapt from the frying pan into the fire by following an expletive-ridden email to a constituent with calls for the country's opposition leader to be shot.
Hone Harawira, a Maori Party politician, was supposed to be apologising for an abusive written tirade accusing "white motherf...ers" of ripping off indigenous people when he went on New Zealand radio today.

Instead, he came out with even more swear words, calling the country's Labour Party leader a "bastard" who should be "lined up against the wall and shot".

The string of offensive outbursts has deeply embarrassed the Maori Party, the government's coalition partner, and has Prime Minister John Key making excuses for the outspoken politician.

Mr Key has tried to take the heat out of the furore by calling Mr Harawira "a shock-jock kind of MP" and giving assurances that others in the party do not share his views.

HEADLINE: Thousands Watch Woman Give Birth Live on Web
SOURCE LINK: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AheadoftheCurve/thousands-watch-woman-give-birth-live-internet/story?id=9033495
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When a 23-year-old Minnesota teacher gave birth this weekend, it wasn't just her husband, mother and midwife who supported her every step of the way
Thousands of people from across the country and around the world signed in to watch a live Internet broadcast of her more than seven-hour delivery.

For the past few months, Lynsee (who asked to keep her last name private) has been sharing daily details about her pregnancy on the social network MomsLikeMe.

When she was admitted to the hospital about 5 p.m. Friday evening, the social network sent an e-mail broadcast to about 8,000 members, in addition to messages sent via Twitter and Facebook.

HEADLINE: Student suspended for cancer head shave
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26328989-2,00.html
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A 15-YEAR-old Brisbane schoolgirl was suspended for shaving her head to raise money for vital cancer research.

HEADLINE: Everyone for himself in the city of unity
SOURCE LINK: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6909004.ece
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After listening to the song We Are One marking the finale of tonight’s Berlin Wall celebrations, European leaders will head for dinner to fight over the top jobs in the European Union of 27 nations made possible by the events of 1989.

The back-room politicking over the EU’s first president and foreign minister, far removed from voters, may seem an unsavoury contrast with the lofty hopes for a democratic and unified Europe unleashed 20 years ago on the same spot.

But it was EU leaders who gave themselves the power to choose their own president in the Lisbon treaty, an agreement driven by the need to streamline EU business after the accession of the former Iron Curtain countries. The discussions are being led by Fredrik Reinfeldt, the Swedish Prime Minister, whose country holds the EU rotating presidency. He is thought to be testing the scenario of a president from a small country — most likely the Belgian Prime Minister, Herman Van Rompuy, but also possibly Jan Peter Balkenende of the Netherlands — and a High Representative (EU foreign minister) from a large country, with David Miliband the front-runner, ahead of Massimo D’Alema of Italy.