Don’t be surprised if your doctor asks you to sit on the floor at your next checkup. A new study says testing a person’s ability to sit down and then rise from the floor could provide useful insight into their overall health and longevity. Brazilian researchers discovered an interesting link between a person’s ability to.. 
Russia clashes over energy with Belarus, Ukraine, EU
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Simple test may predict life expectancy
Don’t be surprised if your doctor asks you to sit on the floor at your next checkup. A new study says testing a person’s ability to sit down and then rise from the floor could provide useful insight into their overall health and longevity. [more]
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South Korea produce missiles that can Bomb All of North Korea
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Pregnant wife of 21 murdered by family to rid her of evil spirits: Jailed for 58 years
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A Roman trading ship from the time of the Caesars has been discovered off the coast of Italy, reportedly in such good condition that some of the food may still be preserved inside the storage jars. Following up on a tip from local fishermen, police divers used a remotely operated vehicle to locate the ship,.. 
Commercial suborbital space flights should bring in between $600 million and $1.6 billion in revenue in their first decade of operations, according to a study commissioned by the US. Tourism drives about 80 per cent of the demand for suborbital flights, which reach about 63 miles above the planet’s surface before plunging back through the.. 
A trio of planets orbiting a sun-like star has the most similar layout to our solar system yet seen. The discovery supports the idea that planets emerge from relatively flat discs of material encircling stars and, at first, orbit neatly in the same plane, just as our eight planets circle the sun. This long-held notion.. 
Photos of a bloated, hairless animal washed up on by a New York river have sparked debate over what the creature could be and whether it is related to the "Montauk Monster". The creature was spotted under the Brooklyn Bridge by Denise Ginley, who sent photos of it to New York-based news website Gothamist on.. 
A freak double failure in its data centers took Twitter down for around an hour on Thursday, leaving millions without updates from friends, celebrities and news providers a day ahead of the Olympics. "We are sorry," said Mazen Rawashdeh, Twitter’s vice president of engineering, in a message on the company’s support blog. "Many of you.. 
Soldiers Discover Abandoned Baby on Side of Road in southern AfghanistanSoldiers Discover Abandoned Baby on Side of Road in Afghanistan A newborn baby girl left abandoned on the side of the road in southern Afghanistan has been..
Simple test may predict life expectancyDon’t be surprised if your doctor asks you to sit on the floor at your next checkup. A new study says testing a person’s ability to sit..
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