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GP who used spy watch to film himself abusing patients is jailed for 12 years
Dr Davinder Jeet Bains, who used a secret camera inside his James Bond-style wristwatch to record himself abusing female patients. Photograph: Wiltshire ...
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The four phases of successful in-house recruitment
Outsourcing the recruitment process is often touted as a saviour to local authorities seeking to achieve lower and lower spend. This has long been common practice in the private sector, and there's no doubt that in some cases outsourcing has been the answer for local government, too.However, it is important to remember that every organisation is different. Organisations are increasingly ...
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Pope Salvador president discuss beatification of slain archbishop
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The president of El Salvador met Pope Francis on Thursday to urge his fellow Latin American to put Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was murdered by a right-wing death squad in 1980, on the road to Roman Catholic ...
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Calorie restriction may not be good for your brain Study
While restricting calories will certainly help you lose weight, research already suggests that it also may slow aging, prolong life, and even cut the effects of certain diseases. But a new study takes it further by probing into whether or not it can delay nerve cell loss in the brain.Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), lead by Johannes Gräff, tested their ...
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Egypt to issue smart cards to fuel stations next month
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - A motorcyclist carries fuel containers after filling them up from a petrol station as he passes other motorists in queue in Toukh, El-Kalubia governorate, about 25 km (16 miles) ...
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Promiscuous minds gather for Britains Hay Festival
LONDON (Reuters) - Some of the biggest names in literature, science and politics will pitch up to a small British town over the next week for a clan gathering of the world's most "promiscuous ...
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O2 Fitness pumps up Wilmington presence
O2 Fitness will open a second club in Wilmington, this one in Hanover Center. O2, the largest privately owned independent fitness operator in the state, already has 11 locations, mostly in the Triangle. This newest club is scheduled to open in the fourth quarter this year. The club will cover 28,000 square feet of space in the Mayfaire Town Center, five miles from the other Wilmington ...
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Wrestling Olympics czar Jacques Rogge praises sports changes
International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) LONDON -- Wrestling's governing body has "reacted well" and made the necessary changes to give the sport a chance of saving its place in the Olympics, IOC President Jacques Rogge said. In an interview with the Associated Press, Rogge said FILA has dealt with the issues that led the IOC executive ...
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Micro-breweries give cheer to British beer drinkers
By Jonathan Cable BRENTWOOD, England | Thu May 23, 2013 9:28am EDT BRENTWOOD, England May 23 (Reuters) - Britain's love affair with quirkily named real ales and their demand for locally produced goods has led to a growing trend in micro-breweries that cater to the more discerning palate. More than 1,000 brewers now operate across the country compared to just over 800 in late 2011, ...
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Lifestyle Suffering of fistula patients
Fistula Centre in Eldoret. The girl, let us call her Veronica, went into labour in February and laboured for so long because she was too timid to tell her husband she was about to have a baby. "I didn't know the cause of the pain or that it was a sign that I was giving birth," Veronica says. Hours later when the pain became unbearable Veronica was taken to hospital for emergency ...
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Dont forget fitness on holiday
Delhi-based fitness expert and trainer Santosh Sharma shares a few tips to stay fit during a holiday:- Avoid visiting a restaurant empty stomach. In such cases people end up eating much more. If you're starving, eat a piece of fruit or have a glass of juice or water in the hotel itself. Later, while having lunch, fill your plate with lightly dressed salads, fish, seafood and lean meats. ...
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Kill Mittal French video game lets players attack Indian billionaire Lakshmi amid factory battle
A French video game is offering players the chance to become a virtual employee of steel manufacturer ArcelorMittal battling to keep a factory ...
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Fitness test deceased was breadwinner
Aspirant traffic cops wait to run 4km in 30 minutes to pass the fitness test which will qualify them to go into the next round for one of 90 provincial posts. File photo; ...
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Sports Business Awards have some Louisville connections
Louisville got a bit of notice last night as SportsBusiness Journal and SportsBusinessDaily, sister publications to Business First, handed out their annual honors in New York City. As Business First reports, former Churchill Downs Inc. (NYSE: CDN) President Steve Sexton, who is now president and CEO of an Austin, Texas Formula One track, had reason to smile after the 2012 Grand Prix was ...
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Sports Buzz Is Dwight Howard interested in Rockets
Houston Rockets , or is this just a negotiating ploy? Earlier this week, several media outlets reported that Howard seems torn between wanting to stay with ...
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Councils embrace social media
More than two-thirds of councils use Facebook or Twitter to deal with customers rather than issuing press releases. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty ...
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Love dont cost a ring-ring...Jennifer Lopez launches her own mobile phone store chain
If Mary Portas can't save the high street, perhaps J-Lo can? The entrepreneurial diva has announced that she is to open her own retail chain of mobile phone ...
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Weiss Bier cocktail with charred orange and bourbon
I’ve never been particularly fond of beer cocktails. Many of the beer cocktails I have had were designed by PR people trying to put a spin on a product that already exists. Sometimes, they have been the brainchild of a well-meaning bartender attempting to do an interesting thing since craft beer is trendy. The issue is that the recipe for these things typically involve three or four ...
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A Practical Guide to the Catchphrases of Arrested Development
In 2012, I watched for the first time and discovered that roughly 60 percent of the lexicon of my peer group consisted of direct references to the misadventures of the Bluth family. In the days leading up to the much-anticipated Netflix release of Season 4, experts* predict that that figure may rise as high as 80 or 90 percent. If you're one of the dozen or so people who still haven't ...
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EXCLUSIVE Sports commission develops event incubator
Rob Higgins The new Event Development Institute scheduled to launch June 1 in Tampa is a first-of-its-kind sports event incubator envisioned by the Tampa Bay Sports Commission and funded by private donations. There was no fertile ground in which these event ideas could come to fruition, said Sports Commission Executive Director Rob Higgins. His team created the EDI to give upstart sports event ...
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Lifestyle Sh51.8m gold shipment vanishes mysteriously from airport
The gold was spread among six boxes unloaded from American Airlines Flight 902, which arrived at 4:42 a.m. Tuesday morning from Guayaquil, Ecuador, according to ...
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Live discussion how can we prepare better for ageing
"woefully under-prepared" to cope with this dramatic rise.Our online discussion, which will take place on Friday 24 May from 12 till 2pm, will ask how we can prepare better for an ageing population? How can we get sectors to work closer together to provide joined-up care? How can we encourage health, housing and social care services to collaborate to meet the needs ...
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The Undateables turned me into a celebrity
The Undateables was shown, I was on the way to work and came out from the station, a person driving a car hooted and started doing a Leeds salute. Then when I was waiting to get on the bus, someone took their phone out and took my picture."Raymond Johnson hoped that taking part ...
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A rush-hour high-speed train crash how would you cope – video
High-speed rail disaster rehearsal In Lincolnshire - in pictures Emergency teams recently staged a rail crash, complete with 'victims' to test their readiness for a real disaster. The Guardian was there to capture the most striking ...
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Lifestyle 23 sets of twins in one class
grade level at the school -- meaning that roughly an astonishing 10 percent of them are twins. Only one of the 23 sets of twins are reportedly ...
Tajikistan Focus
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Tajikistan making sacrifices for the future
A massive hydroelectric dam in southern Tajikistan may be the key to the future energy independence of the country and its development, but it comes at a staggering cost and with doubts over its viability.
Tajikistan is an ancient land and one of the oldest states in human history, having been founded by the Samani dynasty in the 9th century, long before territories such as Great Britain or other European nations became unified states. Yet for all this, Tajikistan has remained impoverished and sidelined throughout much of its existence. Read more
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