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PARIS: Drink lots of milk to strengthen your bones and boost your health, doctors say. But a study in The BMJ medical journal Wednesday said Swedes with a high intake of cow’s milk died younger — and women suffered more fractures. The findings may warrant questions about recommendations for milk consumption, although further research is needed, its authors said, as ... Read More »

DUBAI: A Dubai court jailed a Pakistani for 15 years for smuggling heroin in bags containing copies of the Qur'an, prayer mats and other religious paraphernalia, a report said Wednesday. The 30-year-old man, identified only by his initials M.T., was convicted of possessing 24 kg of heroin that was stashed in five bags with hidden compartments, the report said.   ... Read More »

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: A mudslide triggered by monsoon rains buried scores of workers’ houses at a tea plantation in central Sri Lanka on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people and leaving more than 250 missing, an official said. The military mobilized troops to help with the rescue operation being undertaken as rain still fell in the island nation’s central hills. ... Read More »

DHAKA: A special Bangladesh court on Wednesday sentenced to death the leader of the country’s largest Islamist party for war crimes, in a long-awaited verdict that triggered sporadic protests and violence. The war crimes tribunal found Motiur Rahman Nizami, head of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, guilty of mass murder, rape and looting during Bangladesh’s war of independence against Pakistan in 1971. ... Read More »

You’ve tried everything, counted sheep, drunk herbal teas and even taken sleeping pills but nothing has helped you with your insomnia. Doctors and specialists say most insomnia cases are caused by stress and excessive use of caffeine.  “Sleep is essential for both mental and physical health. Researches are constantly looking for new and developed ways to help people sleep the ... Read More »

IRBIL, Iraq: Dozens of Kurdish peshmerga fighters left a base in northern Iraq on Tuesday headed for the battleground Syrian town of Kobani, an AFP journalist reported. The town on the Turkish border has become a crucial front in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) group, which overran large parts of Iraq in June and also holds significant territory ... Read More »

An 11-year-old Bangladeshi boy has been reported missing by his parents. Furqhan Abdul failed to return home from Masjid Al-Jauhara in Aziziah district in Jeddah last Sunday. His parents are requesting anyone who has seen him or know his whereabouts to call them on 0545280258 or 0538419495. Read More »

A citizen has sold a rare saker falcon, also known as falco cherrug, for a whopping SR210,000 to an enthusiast. Abdullah bin Faraj Al-Qahtani, 40, said he had caught the falcon after spending a night and day at the site where it was spotted. “This falcon has many qualities that distinguish it from others. It is 17.5 inches wide, which ... Read More »

DHAKA — Left-arm spinner Shakib Al Hasan took six for 59 as Bangladesh dismissed Zimbabwe for 240 on the opening day of the first Test here Saturday. Shakib, who made his Test comeback after serving a three-month ban for poor discipline, led a three-pronged spin attack that strangled Zimbabwe on the slow wicket at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium. Debutant leg-spinner Jubair Hossain ... Read More »

NEW DELHI — When a Hindu woman tearfully claimed to national media recently she had been kidnapped, raped and forcibly converted to Islam, India’s religious hard-liners seized the chance to hike their “love jihad” fears. Hard-line Hindu activists, encouraged by the media attention, claimed scores of Muslim boys were attempting to abduct, seduce and elope with Hindu girls across the country ... Read More »

SURUC, Turkey — Sultan Muslim, a Syrian Kurd, had no doubt what to name her seventh child when he was born, safely in Turkey, after a harrowing month-long flight from her home in Kobane: Obama. Desperate to flee the flashpoint Syrian border town, the heavily pregnant mother, her husband and six other children made it across the frontier just in time ... Read More »

SYDNEY: Australian surgeons said they have used hearts which had stopped beating in successful transplants, in what they said was a world first that could change the way organs are donated. Until now, doctors have relied on using the still-beating hearts of donors who have been declared brain dead, often placing the recovered organs on ice and rushing them to ... Read More »

MADRID: Cristiano Ronaldo scored to spark Real Madrid’s 3-1 comeback win over Barcelona in a thrilling “clasico” match Saturday in the Spanish league that handed the visitors their first loss of the season. The result spoiled a strong Barcelona debut by Luis Suarez, who played well in his first game since a four-month biting ban and set up Neymar to ... Read More »

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama says the US must be guided by science — not fear — as it responds to Ebola. In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama says he was proud to give Texas nurse Nina Pham a hug in the Oval Office after she was cured of Ebola. He says the other nurse who contracted Ebola is ... Read More »

CAIRO: A state of emergency came into force Saturday across much of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula after 30 soldiers were killed in a suicide car bombing by suspected jihadists. It was the deadliest attack on the country’s security forces since the army deposed Islamist president Muhammad Mursi last year, to the fury of his supporters.   Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, center, ... Read More »