The US soft drinks industry says it has dramatically cut the number of high-calorie soft drinks sold in US schools as part of a drive to tackle obesity.
The American Beverage Association said shipments of full-calorie drinks to schools were down 95%.
Nearly one in three children and teenagers in the US are overweight or obese and health experts say sugary drinks are part of the problem.
Homebuyers who have never owned a home or who've not owned one in the last three years -- with qualifying income levels -- can claim a First-Time Homebuyer Credit of up to $8,000. Legislative changes in November 2009 expanded and extended this credit, making it easier to claim, but there are stringent documentation requirements for claiming this credit. Warning:
Travelers From Haiti Bringing Malaria to U.S., Health experts watching for signs of a malaria outbreak have noticed several cases of the mosquito-borne disease among people traveling back from Haiti, where an earthquake in January killed as many as 300,000 people.
It's a normal Thursday morning in South Kensington, but 24-year-old English tutor Will Orr-Ewing is giving a most unusual lesson. For while he is in London, his pupil is in Geneva.
Welcome to the brave new world of online tutoring, where the teacher isn't a man in leather elbow patches who comes around to your house every Tuesday teatime, but a ma
Yoga has been one of the most brilliant ways for a person to connect to his soul. It’s one of the most effective means to exercise the body without exhausting it. Yoga has been around here since ages and so its benefits are some of the most verified types of exercise known to man. Yoga has the power to unite the body with the mind. It instigates the human mind to explore the mind and come out a b
The powerful earthquake that killed hundreds of people in Chile on Saturday probably shifted the Earth's axis and made days slightly shorter, a Nasa scientist has said.
Richard Gross, a research scientist at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, calculated how much the axis may have changed in position following the the disaster.
Scores of volunteers searched a California lake on Sunday for signs of a missing teenager in what San Diego authorities called an unprecendeted response to a missing persons case.
Chelsea King, a 17-year-old honor student at Poway High School in Poway, Calif., about 25 miles north of San Diego, disappeared Thursday while on an after-school run through Rancho Bernardo Community Park, Fox5SanDie
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The "Person Finder: Chile Earthquake" from the California-based Internet giant is located at Chilepersonfinder.appspot.com and offers users the choice of using it in English and Spanish.
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A man who created a website trading in stolen financial information linked to tens of millions of pounds in losses has been jailed for nearly five years.
Renukanth Subramaniam, 33, founded Darkmarket, a "Facebook for fraudsters" where criminals could buy and sell credit card details and bank log-ins.
The site was shut down in 2008 after an FBI agent infiltrated it, leading to more than 60