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Jay Sean sweeps Asian Music awards

London ,March 12: British singer of Indian origin Jay Sean, who last year made history by reaching the top spot in the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States, swept the Asian Music Awards by winning four prizes. He won in every category for which he was nominated.

Tired and stressed? Try some bottled fresh air

London ,Tired of polluted city air? If you are in London, you can stop hankering for a breath of fresh air from beautiful and scenic spots. Office workers in Britain will get bottled fresh air to help them unwind and get rid of stress.
Britain’s National Trust, a conservation organisation that takes care of historical buildings and natural spots, is offering bottled fresh air to stressed-out city workers in London.

Joggers have more active sexual lives

London: Want to pep up your sex life? Then start jogging, as a new study says joggers have more active sex lives than those who don’t run. One in 10 joggers said they have sex at least once a day and three percent of joggers said they have sex twice a day. Amongst non-runners one in four (25 per cent) said they had sex once a month or less.

Karisma delivers baby boy

Mumbai: Actress Karisma Kapoor delivered a baby boy at Breach Candy hospital here on Friday noon.
This is Karisma’s second child. Her first born, daughter Samaira is five years old. The actress’ spokesperson said, “Karisma delivered a baby boy. Both the mother and the baby are doing fine.”

Jehangir portrait is biggest Mughal art

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London ,INDIAN PORTRAITS, which acquired a distinct Indian personality under the Mughals, have not only been about religion and kings. Courtesans, transvestites, commoners like musicians, miniaturists, soldiers, holy men and nautch girls are all there captured for posterity.

‘Not sure how long marriage will last’

London: Adding fuel to speculation about their extra-marital affairs, French First Lady Carla Bruni has claimed that she isn’t sure how long her marriage to President Nicolas Sarkozy would last.
In an interview to Britain’s Sky News, the former Italian supermodel-turned-singer described her relationship to Sarkozy as a “fairy tale” but gave a half-hearted response when asked about whether her marriage “was forever”.

GenY wants all without hard work

London: Generation Y — those born in and after late 80s — take employment simply as a means for paying bills and value their leisure time far more than people of older generations, a survey has found.
The study of 16,507 Americans spanning three decades concluded that those born in the late 1980s — the so-called Generation Y — expect to ‘have their cake and eat it’.

‘Don’t trust men with wider faces’

London: Is he dependable? Well, ladies, check out the breadth of his cheekbones, for a new study says that men with wider faces are less trustworthy than others.

Women are better at finances

London ,WOMEN ARE better at handling family finances than men, a survey in Britain has revealed.
An average man in the UK has £2,176 of debt on credit card whereas an average British woman has only £1,987 debt on her credit card. British men seem to be more liable to take loans compared to women:

Stressed men prefer dissimilar mates?

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Paris: If you thought the mating business was already a jungle, where the pitfalls are looks, social rank, purchasing power, verbal skills and even subconscious smells, get ready to be dismayed for it is even more complex than thought.
Scientists in Germany have discovered that men who are stressed make an unconventional choice in sexual preference, says a report on Wednesday in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, published by Britain’s Academy of Sciences.

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