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Julie Walters
Actress   Celebrity   Photos   Wikipedia: Julie Walters   Women  
 The Daily Telegraph 
Julie Walters: BBC is practically run by women
The BBC has so many female staff that it is "practically run by women", Julie Walters has claimed. | Julie Walters says women are being given more interesting roles Photo: Richard Saker/Rex Featu... (photo: AP Photo / Sang Tan)
Man - Sleep - Snoring
Cancer   People   Photos   Sleep   Wikipedia: Snoring  
 The Daily Telegraph 
Snoring and disturbed sleep may increase cancer risk
People who snore and suffer from disturbed sleep may have a heightened risk of dying from cancer, a study has shown. | People with sleep disordered breathing are almost five times as likely to die fro... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
Woman - Cigarette Smoker - Smoking  Detroit Free Press 
Women who don't smoke can still get lung cancer
| A pesky cough, that's all. | The last thing on Michaelle Gall's mind was late-stage lung cancer. | She had just turned 41. She was a physically fit mom and nonsmoker, except for the rare social occa... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
Disease   Health   Photos   Women  
Blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng arrives at Washington Square Village on the campus of New York University, Saturday, May 19, 2012, in New York.  The Times Of India 
Blind Chinese activist Chen arrives in United States
SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweet NEW YORK: Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived in the United States on Saturday and declared "equality and justice have no boundaries" after China let him leave a... (photo: AP / Henny Ray Abrams)
China   Human Rights   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Chen Guangcheng  
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Gay African refugees face abduction, violence and rape in Uganda and Kenya The Guardian
Gay African refugees face abduction, violence and rape in Uganda and Kenya
| LGBTI people fleeing persecution in home country among most vulnerable and isolated of all refugees, finds study In Uganda, 'public rhetoric demonising homosexuality ha... (photo: UN / JC McIlwaine)
Africa   Photos   Refugees   Somalia   Violence   Wikipedia: Somalia  
An Afghan villager unlocks the door of a suspected homemade explosives factory for U.S. Army Spc. Timothy Rodgers in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, May 4, 2012. Al Jazeera
The NATO Afghan summit: Reality and illusion
| Everything has been moving forward, step by step. At the beginning of May, after months of negotiation, US President Barack Obama made a triumphal appearance at the Afg... (photo: US Army / Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod)
Afghanistan   Nato   Photos   US   Wikipedia: 2012 Chicago Summit  
Pregnant woman eating junk food. The Daily Telegraph
Pregnant women should not 'eat for two'
Pregnant women who eat for two and gain too much weight are at greater risk of having complications than those who stick to a healthy diet, research has found. | Women mu... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Diet   Photos   Pregnancy   Wikipedia: Pregnancy   Women  
The burqa reminder Chicago Tribune
The burqa reminder
Since a 2009 trip to Kabul, I have kept a sky-blue burqa in my office as a reminder of the responsibility we have to the women of Afghanistan. | As world leaders gather i... (photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod)
Afghanistan   Military   Photos   Rights   Wikipedia: Afghanistan   Women  
Salty and deep fried dal as a snack food - saturated fat PhysOrg
With fat: What's good or bad for the heart, may be the same for the brain
| This study is published online by Annals of Neurology, a journal of the American Neurological Association and Child Neurology Society, on May 18, 2012. | The research t... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
Food   Health   Photos   Wikipedia: Saturated fat   Woman  
Donna Summer The Washington Times
Donna Summer will be remembered for playing the anthem to carefree summers
Jeneba Ghatt | Ask me a question. | WASHINGTON, May 17, 2012 - Hot summers in DC during the 1980s frame my earliest memory of LaDonna Adrian Gaines, stage name Donna... (photo: WN / Aruna Gilbert)
Donna Summer   Photos   Singer   Washington   Wikipedia: Donna Summer  
Paintors, they renovated the church paints, Filipino lifestyle of the poor families and children, there home and environment situation, habit and dids and work for living, philippines basic lifestyle of the squatters, Saturday, May, 2, 2009 Treehugger
5 Zero-VOC Interior Paints for a Freshly-Renovated, Healthy Home
| , cleaning products, and carpet: Start with the walls themselves. Choosing a paint that's low in volatile organic compounds (VOCs) -- or, even better, totally free of t... (photo: WN / james)
Health   Home   Life   Photos   Wikipedia: Paint  
Mladic instigated ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, UN court told France24
Mladic instigated ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, UN court told
| AFP - Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic went on trial accused of carrying out a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing and Europe's worst massacre since Worl... (photo: UN / UN)
Bosnia   Court   Crime   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: Bosnia and Herzegovina  
Chinese Vice Premier LI Keqiang, right, and LIu Yunshan, left, Director of Chinese Communist Party's Propaganda Department, clap while Zhou Yongkang, center, member of Chinese Communist Party Politburo Standing Commitee, is introduced during a conference to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of Chinese Communist Youth League at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Friday, May 4, 2012. Al Jazeera
Chinese in bold call for official's removal
| A group of Communist Party veterans has written a daring open letter calling for the removal of China's top security official, in the latest sign of disunity ahead of B... (photo: AP / Alexander F. Yuan)
China   Communism   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Zhou Yongkang  
A woman with her kid The Examiner
Women´s Health
| "It´s Your Time" is a wonderful theme for this years "National Women´s Health Week". | Now is the time, to step back, take a breath, and seize the moment. Women nowad... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
Disease   Health   Photos   Wikipedia: Women & Health   Women  
Parenting Entertainment
- Who says pregnancy has to interfere with style! Heavily preg
- Heat safety for children
- Government Budget Must Invest in the Youngest Children
- Facebook set to lift ban on children
A child drinking juice in a bottle.
High acid levels in juices damaging kid's teeth
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- Battleship sinks, Dictator drowns at box office
- Battleship sinks, Dictator drowns at box office
- Bee Gees star Robin Gibb loses cancer battle
- Kidding around: Natalie Morales and her son Luke reenact Cha
John Cleese
John Cleese: Happily ever laughter
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Health Equality
- Missing women: Bodies found
- Women in top jobs drink more
- More women are getting up and running
- New Zealand’s most unusual place to stay
Lung Cancer
Lung cancer CT scans: Just for older heavy smokers
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- Signe Wilkinson | Another milestone for women's equality
- Woman MPs float demands for equality‚ opportunity
- Gender Equality - From Fight to Drive
- 'Siddhartha Mallya is equally responsible for molesting
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Sex Education Women's Rights
- SIMMONS: Obama ‘evolving’ on abstinence-based se
- Net porn exposure linked to risky sex
- NAACP supports same-sex marriage
- New York teacher's union head 'had sex with teacher
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- Israel's fury over trade ban on West Bank produce
- Nazir Afzal: 'We tackled grooming gangs. Now we have to
- Rejig IPC to make it women-friendly: NCW
- Morocco: Jailed Islamist dies after hunger strike
The burqa reminder
The burqa reminder
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Abortion Religion
- Autocratic church betrays signs of panic and confusion
- Rocket launch aborted in last half-second (+ photos)
- Letters | Education funding, true conservatives, buy America
- Harrison: Politics 101 at District 9 debate
President Barack Obama answers a question during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010.
US election: 'When your name is Barack Hussein Obama, getting elected is difficult'
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- Secular or Islamist? Egypt chooses a president
- For gay marriage opponents, moments shape minds
- Another young life is lost to violence
- Romney's faith said to run deep, albeit quietly
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