| Video: Burlesque fitness trend booming Just how fit is the First Lady? Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres challenged Michelle Obama to a pushup contest. The First Lady and tireless fitness campaigner was the clear winner, completing 25... | |
| Week in Sports and Upcoming Events LUNCHEON Hundreds of athletes, coaches and supporters will attend the Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table's luncheon celebrating National Women Girls in Sports on Monday at Earl Warren... |
| Guardian Sport Network | Transfer near-misses mean PSG remain a work in progress Paris St-Germain on Tuesday. Motta is a European champion and an Italy international, who cost the not insignificant sum of EUR10 million, but he was not the star signing that PSG had been hoping to... |
| Italian court rules men convicted of gang rape do not have to be jailed Mara Carfagna, the Italian former equalities minister, said the ruling on gang rape sentencing sent the wrong message. Photograph: Franco Origlia/Getty... |
| Russia and Ukraine move to protect homeless from cold snap Europe during its brutal cold snap.As the death toll from the week-long tragedy rose to at least 169 on Friday, the Russian emergencies minister, Sergei Shoigu, ordered food and medical-assistance... |
| Icy weather warning issued to older people older people and those with underlying health problems to take extra care as below-zero temperatures continue.She reminded them to wrap up warm, prepare hot drinks to help ward off the cold and keep... |
| Third Briton dies from legionnaires disease A third British holidaymaker has died from contracting Legionnaires' disease while on holiday in Spain, the Valencia regional government said... |
| Two Britons die from legionnaires disease A third British holidaymaker has died from contracting Legionnaires' disease while on holiday in Spain, the Valencia regional government said... |
| The history of sport and the British If anyone started listening to my series, Sport and the British on Radio 4, thinking sport was just about playing games, it might be around about programme six on 6 February that the reality dawns:... |
| U.S. Seizes 16 Unauthorized Sports Streaming Sites Ahead of Super Bowl A man, who made a profit of $13,000 from the sites, was arrested and charged with criminal copyright infringement as part of the crackdown on sites that showed NFL, NBA and NHL games and World... |
| Executive Suite: NBC Sports chairman Mark Lazarus spent much of his Westchester, N.Y., childhood going to Yankees and Giants games. "We still have Giants season tickets in my family," he says. Of course, the Giants have made it to the... |
| George Lucas talks Yoda swap when it re-opens on Feb. 10 will notice something new besides the fancy 3-D technology. Puppet Yoda is gone, and has been replaced by an all-new digital Yoda, like the one seen in episodes 2 and 3.... |
| Top Shelf: WaBa Grill and Sport & Health o Chantilly has the East Coast's first WaBa Grill franchise, which specializes in healthy fare and teriyaki sauce. The owner has plans for more in the area. o Sport & Health continues its... |
| Amazon launches online sports memorabilia store Follow this company is launching an online store to sell collectable baseball and hockey cards and other sports collectables and... |
| Sun, sea, sports and adventures Everywhere on the seven islands is a potential playground for sports and adventure buffs. Gaze skyward and you'll see paragliders weaving a steady trail from mountaintop to coastline.Even... |
| Sports Biz Front Page Paying for sports stadiums in tough times As theNFL kicks off a season in New Orleans, CNBC's Brian Shactman looks at how cities are choosing to construct and fund stadiums in tough financial... |
| Changing lifestyle causes cancer spurt in India Health News: New Delhi, Cancer is climbing the Indian graph due to rapid lifestyle changes, adding nearly a million new cases every year. While cancer of the breast and cervix are most common among... |
| Twitter is harder to resist than cigarettes and alcohol, study finds alcohol , according to researchers who tried to measure how well people could resist their desires.They even claim that while sleep and sex may be stronger urges, people are more likely to give in to... |
| Malaria cases around the world: how many are there? on the Datablog here .How were the figures so wrong? The assumption has always been that the majority of those who die from malaria are children. In fact, the deaths are much evenly spread than that... |
| On the freezing streets of Leeds at night, the homeless are not always alone. Part 2 We walk up Briggate towards the car park by the ring road; there is already a good turnout. One or two spot Clive, our team leader, and call out to him; the banter he gives and takes in equal... |
| BT promises 'ultra-fast' broadband Its current broadband speeds are closer to 40Mb (megabits per second), with most of the country seeing a typical speed of 7.6Mb, but it today announced it will make a much faster service available... |
| Sport and the British CLARE BALDING watches all sections of society gather on Epsom Downs to watch the Derby, the biggest day of the flat racing year. In her exploration of the way Britain has shaped sport and sport has... |
| Egypt conference seeks to boost youth sports Efforts underway to boost youth in sport in Egypt. CAIRO: A three-day conference took place in Cairo this week to discuss the successes and challenges surrounding young people and sport in Egypt.... |
| Agbonlahor struggling for fitness Aston Villa striker Gabriel Agbonlahor is again a major fitness doubt with back and hamstring spasms for Sunday's Barclays Premier League clash at Newcastle.Agbonlahor is to undergo a special... |
| Sports legends confirm for 2012 Laureus World Sports Awards The Laureus World Sports Awards, which recognise sporting achievement, are the premier honours on the international sporting calendar. The winners, as voted by the Laureus World Sports Academy, the... |
| Sports of The Times: Giants Are Endearing Because They Suffer to Succeed INDIANAPOLIS
Tom Coughlin would like to assure everyone and especially himself that the Giants "are still the underdogs and still have a lot to prove" going into Super Bowl XLVI, and who can... |
| Sport in Brief: Stoner flies Sydeny FC is seeking a new coach, Egypt's PM sacks the leadership of the country's football association, Casey Stoner has broken the Sepang circuit MotoGP lap record, and tributes flow for... |
| 'King of the farm': Sheep-herding rabbit gains fame By msnbc.com staff A rabbit that rounds up sheep on a small farm in northern Sweden is rapidly gaining a following on the Internet, with more than 650,00 views in the past week on YouTube.Even the... |
| Off the Bench: Chick-fil-A sways Auburn recruit? Well, who can really blame Woodlawn (Birmingham, Ala.) linebacker Cassanova McKinzy for turning down Clemson? Their fast food situation is untenable! Auburn just had better eats. The nation’s... |
| UPI Sports Calendar for Friday, Feb. 3 © 2012 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's... |
| Feds seize illegal sports-streaming sites Just a few days short of Super Bowl Sunday, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced today it had seized 307 Web sites that either live-streamed sports or sold fake NFL... |
| Modern Love: Embracing Marriage, Flaws and All - Modern Love But part of me wanted to flee. I was 42, married 12 years and camping with my in-laws. And not car camping, either. Backcountry camping, meaning that relieving oneself required digging a hole in the... |
| Motherlode Blog: Choosing a Legal Guardian for Your Child in the Event of Your Death Here is the commentariat’s most prevailing thought on choosing your child’s guardian when there’s no obvious solution: blood is thicker than, well, anything else.Jennifer and her... |
| A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 3 Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to... |
| Committee To Be Set Up To Practise Healthy Lifestyle Kuala Belait - The newly-built Lamunin Health Centre will be utilised as a place to form a committee for the 'Promotion and Practise of Healthy Lifestyle'. According to Pehin Orang Kaya... |
| Eating for weight loss The two most popular new-year resolutions are to lose weight and to increase exercise levels.As holidays end and everyone resumes their usual lifestyle patterns, there are no more excuses for... |
| Massage may be as effective as pain-killers A soothing massage may be as effective in treating sore muscles as pain-killers.Research published in the journal Science Translational Medicine found that massage can reduce inflammation at the... |
| THE BAKING PAPER: Peach Cake 2 fresh peachesPreheat oven to 165C and line cake tin with baking paper and set aside. In a clean bowl using electric beaters, beat together butter and sugars until pale and fluffy, about 4 to 6... |
| Making yoga part of your life Interested in yoga, but not sure which class to go for? Sample a few different styles of yoga this year to find one you love.Twisting Peacock Yoga owner and teacher Rom Hope said there were great... |
| Ask the expert: 'How long before I'm exempt from paying capital gains tax on my second home?' Q. I own two homes but am selling the main one. Can you advise how long I have to wait before selling the second one without having to pay capital gains tax on... |
| Taste la difference! The Cordon Bleu culinary school has a lavish new London flagship Early on in Julia Child's autobiography, My Life in France, the California-born chef recalls a significant encounter in 1950, one that would change her life - and American cooking - for ever.... |
| My Life In Food: Simon Hopkinson Simon Hopkinson has been, variously, an Egon Ronay inspector, the chef-proprietor of Bibendum restaurant, a food columnist for The Independent and an award-winning cookery writer. His latest book is... |
| On The Menu: Fernandez & Wells; Beigel Bake; Armand de Brignac; Spicentice; Harvey Nichols' posh candy floss; Housebites This week I'd planned to eat a sandwich quite different from the one you see above. I'd set off from The Independent''s office at 6.15pm on a Tuesday with the intention of having... |
| Window shopping: Classic luggage and transport themes can send any room on a journey It can be about reappropriating vintage travel-related objects. Think vintage leather suitcases turned into drawers (done particularly beautifully, though expensively, as they are made to order by... |
| Can a ready-made cocktail ever eclipse the real deal? The connoisseur of expensively blended drinks knows there are several ways to serve cocktails (frozen, frapp, floating, straight up, on the rocks), several kinds of glass to serve them in (shot,... |
| Should we be fortifying foods with nutrients? Scientists say fortifying foods with nutrients could help save lives, while critics say it's mass medication and unethical. Meg Carter hears the... |
| Is it really so easy to rent out your house at medal-winning prices during the Olympics? It's now less than six months to go until the Olympics and the burning question on many Londoner's lips is: have you rented your property out yet? And if not, why not? According to some... |
| Dairy Crest sales up but milk price hits profits The cheese-maker Dairy Crest's like-for-like sales rose 2 per cent in the first three quarters of the year, despite a "challenging business environment". But the company warned that... |
