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  • Airlines grounds overweight staff: paper

    2010-08-10 08:47

    Turkish Airlines has grounded 28 flight attendants for being overweight and given them six months to slim down or face reassignment, a newspaper said on Saturday.

  • Attractive women overlooked for certain jobs?

    2010-08-10 08:47

    Too hot to be an engineer or prison guard?

  • Who are the real prudes?

    2010-08-10 09:22

    Call me a prude if you will, but there is something odd and unnerving about contraception pills being sold over the counter.

  • Sky-high prices push foreigners to suburbs

    2010-08-10 09:21

    A small community of expatriates has emerged in Beijing's growing northern suburbs attracted by low rents and spacious apartments.

  • Trying to stay afloat in a pool of clinging spandex

    2010-08-10 09:19

    There is no doubt that swimming can cause its fair share of thrills and dangers, but I never thought that I would say that of a swimsuit.

  • Advice to U.S. job seekers: drop the Merlot

    2010-08-10 08:55

    Job applicants who drink alcohol are perceived as less intelligent and less hireable by American bosses, a bias dubbed the "imbibing idiot bias" in a study published on Monday.

  • Japanese lovebirds flock to marry in Swiss Alps

    2010-08-10 08:55

    Facing an Alpine cow with a bell round its neck , Arisa Chi gripped her bouquet a little tighter, adjusted the cream-colored ruffles of her dress and smiled for the camera.

  • Oxford dictionary shuns not so "faboosh" words

    2010-08-10 08:54

    Are you a tanorexic partial to a bit of flashpacking, but hate your cankles?

  • Woman faked cancer for cash, Disney trip?

    2010-08-10 08:46

    A woman in the Toronto area has admitted to faking cancer, running a bogus charity and collecting thousands of dollars from people who thought she was dying, a Toronto newspaper reported.

  • 3-D phones, without the glasses

    2010-08-09 10:36

    Smartphones are getting smarter. Now some new models even offer games or television broadcasts in three dimensions - and you don't need special glasses to see the show.

  • Tom Carter's candid camera

    2010-08-09 10:19

    There is no single image that can adequately represent the diversity that is China.

  • China eyes the dream factories

    2010-08-09 10:03

    The film industry in China has grown in epic proportions in recent years. As studio owners get hungry for a bigger slice of the pie, they are casting their nets further afield. Next stop? Hollywood.

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