Two decades ago the idea of getting dressed up in ghoulish costumes, decorating your home with jack-o-lanterns and going door-to-door asking for candy was thought of as a bizzare western custom in Japan. Not anymore.
This weekend, the streets of Tokyo were packed with people in costume and shopfronts were adorned with witches and pumpkins […]
Adoption is certainly not the easiest process there is, but for someone with a celebrity status as mega as Madonna, expect even more problems, and in this case, a media frenzy, unnecessary as it may be.
Throughout the past month, Madonna, a mother-of-two, has been in the spotlight, fighting the legal accusations of Malawian groups that […]
Since the Finnish have been in the spotlight due to their taking the reigns in the European Union’s presidency, a startling passion of the Finns has been revealed to the world - a penchant for Latin.
Latin is far from dead in Finland apparently, where even Elvis songs have been translated into the language and gets […]
People love to dress up. Its a fact. And its not just kids. Come Halloween, grown-ups and kids alike take to the streets in decked out from the simple to the outrageous, delighting in every moment of day where you can actually get away with dressing up crazy and not being thought of […]
Hot on the heels of the iPod’s makers being slammed with class-action suits because of claims that the wildly popular device can cause hearing damage comes the latest lawsuits to claim the same - this time for Bluetooth headsets.
Bluetooth’s shortwave innovation was conceived in the 1990’s and has been licensed to several products, from cars […]
The French have found another reason to grumble with a new high court ruling that the 35 hour working week is to be implemented in the hospitality industry, including restaurants, cafes, bars and hotels.
This could mean even lower pay for the junior staff of such establishments as well as even lower incomes for owners. […]
With so much of the news one hears of today mostly either bad (like Iraq and global warming) or inane (Hollywood), I thought it would be nice to inject a little humour in today’s post , which was certainly news to me!
The health Q & A below was meant to have been answered by a […]
Its not exactly the most appealing of ideas, but by next March, Smintair or Smokers International Airways is planned to take to the skies.
The novel idea of smoker’s airline is the brainchild of former stockbroker Alexander Schoppmann (obviously a pack-a-dayer himself), who plans to offer flights from his hometown of Dusseldorf to Tokyo, another […]
Al Gore recently won the prestigious Quill Literary Award for his acclaimed book on the startling state of the environment, “An Inconvenient Truth”.
The ex-vice president and former electoral Bush opponent has been applauded lately for his staunch efforts on promoting environmental awareness, mostly through his book, which has been also made into a film. The […]
As we all know, Hollywood celebs have now made it de rigeur to adopt children from the developing world, with Africa being a firm favourite.
Well, returning with husband Guy Ritchie from a goodwill trip to Africa, Madonna was faced with some pretty big problems in sorting out legal papers for their newly adopted 1-year-old child, […]
