Readers Digest: Take a moment to consider how old you feel. Not your actual, biological age – but your own subjective feelings. Abundant research during the past few decades have shown that this “subjective age” can be a powerful predictor of your health, including the risk of depression, diabetes and hypertension, dementia, and hospitalisation for…
BBC: Chelsea have signed Kepa Arrizabalaga from Athletic Bilbao for £71m – the highest fee ever paid for a goalkeeper, and a club record transfer. Kepa, 23, arrives at Stamford Bridge after a release clause in his contract was met, with the deal surpassing Alisson’s £66.8m move to Liverpool. He has signed a seven-year contract at…
Reuters: People who have fatty liver disease that wasn’t caused by heavy drinking may still need to avoid alcohol if they want to prevent their liver damage from getting worse, a Korean study suggests. Most people have a little bit of fat in their liver, but fatty liver disease can be diagnosed when more than…
Straits Times, Singapore: Google released the latest version of its operating system, called Android Pie, on Tuesday (Aug 7) – boasting new artificial intelligence features that promise to extend battery life. According to Google, a new operating system – named after a dessert just like its predecessors – will learn apps users use most often…
Desk Report: Thanks to apps like Tinder and Truly Madly, dating has become way more easier than what it was before. Although some of these dating apps have the reputation of being primarily for hook ups, you still keep hearing of many couples who found their soulmate through them and finally also got married. However,…
AFP: Tributes flowed for Australian golfer Jarrod Lyle Thursday after he lost his battle with cancer, dying aged 36 after halting treatment for leukaemia last week. “It breaks my heart to tell everyone that Jarrod is no longer with us,” his wife Briony said in a statement. The former US PGA Tour player, who had…
Hindustan Times, India: The blue light transmitted by smartphones and digital devices can accelerate blindness by transforming vital molecules in the eye’s retina into cell killers, a study has found. Blue lightemitted from smartphones and other digital devices can accelerate blindness by transforming vital molecules in the eye’s retina into cell killers, a study has…
Desk Report: The day that Soviet-led armies rolled into communist Czechoslovakia to put an end to a pro-democracy movement changed Milan Tesar’s life. “I saw tanks coming down this road here. I threw a stone in their direction and then I heard the bullets whizz by,” he told AFP in the small town of Hostivice…
Desk Report: Dr. Isima Sobande was in medical school when she first heard of mothers who bleached the skin of their babies.She dismissed it as an urban myth. But it wasn’t long before she saw it with her own eyes. At a health centre in Lagos, a mother brought in a two-month-old infant who was…
AFP: Ikea’s first Indian outlet opened on Thursday, with more than 200 eager shoppers queueing in the underground car park to escape the heat as a military band played a crowd-pleasing medley inside. The store in the southern city of Hyderabad is the first of 25 outlets the Swedish furniture giant hopes to open by…