A new study shows the 'strongest evidence to date' that height and weight affect how much money you make

A new study offers the “strongest evidence to date” that overweight people and short people face social and economic barriers to success because of their size.

Using genetic data from more than 119,000 British people between the ages of 37 and 73, researchers from the U.S. and the U.K. found that higher body mass index is associated with lower income and greater social deprivation, which takes into account unemployment, car and home ownership, and home overcrowding.

Shorter height is associated with a lower income, level of education, and job class. The study, published in the BMJ on Wednesday, reveals that these effects are particularly punitive for shorter men and heavier women.

Several studies have previously linked tallness and thinness to higher socio-economic status in developed countries, but the direction of the association—whether being tall and thin makes people wealthy, or whether wealthy people grow tall and maintain a slim figure because they can afford better food and health care, for instance—was a mystery.

High-flying life of Britain's most wanted £71m cocaine fugitive who was 'living like an African king'

David McDermott was arrested in Ghana but has hired lawyers to fight extradition

Britain's most wanted cocaine fugitive was living like an African king hiding out in Ghana having married into one of the country's most affluent families.

David McDermott, of Ormskirk, West Lancashire, was being hunted by the National Crime Agency and was finally arrested in an international sting operation at his home in the affluent Burma Hills area of country's capital Accra this week.

Now the Mirror Online can exclusively reveal the 42-year-old had married and had a child with the daughter of the Governor of the country's Central bank.

Suspected of being a member of an organised crime syndicate from Liverpool - he has been on the run for three-years for his connection to a smuggling plot to import£71 million worth of cocaine into the UK.

Miracle of two teen sisters found alive and well ELEVEN MONTHS after being abducted

Ky-Lea Fortner (left) and Shaeleen Fitch-Fortner were missing for almost a year

Two teenage sister have been found alive 11 months after they were kidnapped .

Ky-Lea Fortner and Shaeleen Fitch-Fortner, then aged 13 and 15, disappeared last April and were thought to have run away from home.

The pair, who were living with a foster family, were last seen waiting for a bus at their school in upstate New York.

But on Wednesday they turned up just 15 miles away in the nearby town of Vestal, reports NBC News .

A friend of the family was held following the sibling's discovery.

Police said Amanda Hellman, 29, was arrested on suspicion of second degree kidnapping.

Save The Date Formal Launch & Unveiling Of Nigerian Students & Youth Corpers Discount Card @nsycdc

Better Bargains guaranteeing a New lease of life of comfort for the very challenged demographic category of our country, those at the receiving end of pay cuts, job losses by their parents and sponsors or having to live with shrinking purchasing power of the Naira.

All You Need To Know About The Nigerian Students and Youth Corpers Discount Card @nsycdc

Thanks Hon. Bimbo Daramola for this wonderful initiative.

As part of measures to keep alive dreams and aspirations of Nigerian students as well as Youth Corp Members, the Bridge Concept Nigeria Limited has innovated The Nigerian Students and Youth Corpers Discount Card. This initiative according to the company will seamlessly make students and Corp Members to cope favourably with socio-economic challenges in the country.

According to the inventor the systemic support system is specifically designed to offer opportunity to Nigerian students and Corp members, in order to maximize their little available resources to accomplish more, which will help in promoting the well being of students who are mostly challenged financially.

The 11 Most Amazing Cars That Debuted at the Geneva Auto Show

The world’s fastest and most luxurious cars made their debuts at this year’s highly anticipated Geneva International Motor Show—which is still taking place (March 3 through 13)—where we saw significant debuts from Aston Martin, Bugatti, Bentley, Jaguar, McLaren, and more. From supercars to ultra-luxe limousines, the show floor was filled with the absolute best the automotive industry has to offer. Here are 11 of the most impressive. (salon-auto.ch)

BREAKING: Yobe Deputy Governor, Abubakar Ali, in auto crash in Kano

The deputy governor of Yobe state, Abubakar Ali, was on Monday involved in an auto accident along the Kaduna- Kano expressway.
A witness, Sunusi Abdul, told 3m360 that the incident occurred in Daka-Tsalle town, along the expressway.
“The SUV he was travelling in had a head-on collision with a Toyota Avensis vehicle,” Mr. Abdul said. Fortunately, the deputy governor’s vehicle did not somersault, but the Toyota car was badly damaged and some of its occupants injured.”
Mr. Abdul, who said the accident occurred around 9:30 am, added that he also narrowly missed hitting Mr. Ali’s car.
He said the deputy governor’s convoy later continued its trip to Kano.

Leicester stars denied entry to London nightclub; forced to stand aside as Tottenham players walks in

Table-topping Leicester City stars were turned away from a top London nightclub – and were even forced to stand aside to let some Tottenham players inside the venue. Danny Drinkwater , Andy King , Matty James and Ben Hamer were not allowed into Mayfair club Drama on Saturday night as they tried to celebrate Drinkwater’s 26th birthday. It happened just hours after the Foxes had beaten Watford 1-0 to extend their lead at the top of the Premier League to five points with just nine games to play. But their position at the top of the table didn’t help them gain access to one of London’s top nightspots. As the four of them tried to talk security around to allow the celebrations to continue, they actually had to step aside to allow Tottenham players Hugo Lloris ,Eric Dier and Nacer Chadli inside.

Scuba Diver Miraculously Survives Horror Ride Through Nuclear Plant Intake Pipe

A South Florida scuba diver was taken on a terrifying ride through a nuclear power plant's intake pipe that he feared would end in his watery death.

What started as a scuba and lobster-diving trip with family and friends became what felt like a ride to hell for Christopher Le Cun last summer when the 30-year-old swam up to what he says was an improperly marked intake pipe to a nuclear plant in Port St. Lucie.

For some five minutes back in July, Le Cun was pulled along at seven feet per second through a pitch black, barnacle-encrusted pipe with no idea what lay at the other end.

They were five minutes Le Cun said will forever be imprinted on his mind.

"We were looking for lobster when we came across a big structure," Le Cun, a Navy veteran who's been diving since age 12, told InsideEdition.com.

Chinese Woman Dies in Elevator With Power Improperly Cut Off

The discovery of a woman's corpse in an elevator in the Chinese city of Xi'an has led to the detention of an elevator maintenance crew who improperly cut off power to the elevator a month ago without checking if anyone was inside

In a statement posted Saturday, the Gaoling district government said two maintenance workers turned off the power source on Jan. 30 to the elevator in a residential building after they were called to check on a glitch.

When a crew returned a month later, on March 1, for repairs, they found a female corpse there, the government said.

Hijackers? Aliens? Theories over Flight 370’s fate abound

SYDNEY – From a hijacking to an alien abduction, countless theories have arisen about the fate of the Malaysian airliner that disappeared nearly two years ago.

With search crews just months away from finishing their thus-far fruitless sweep of a remote stretch of seabed where Flight 370 is believed to have crashed, officials appear no closer to solving one of the most mind-boggling mysteries of modern times. That stubborn lack of resolution has only increased speculation about what might have happened to the Boeing 777 after it vanished with 239 people on board on March 8, 2014. Some believe officials are simply looking in the wrong part of the Indian Ocean, while social media sites are peppered with comments suggesting they are looking on the wrong planet: “MH370 was abducted by aliens,” reads a typical tweet.

Consultant is suspended by hospital after confronting surgeon who planned to operate in her hijab despite it being against safety regulations

A hospital has suspended a consultant after he claimed that a Muslim surgeon walked out of an operation because she was asked to remove her religious headscarf.
Dr Vladislav Rogozov, 46, claimed in an online blog that he confronted her before the surgery when he realised she planned to wear the Islamic hijab which was against safety regulations.
But the unnamed surgeon refused, walking out of the operation and forcing staff at Sheffield's Royal Hallamshire Hospital to find a replacement.
She later accused Czech-born Dr Rogozov, who has worked in Britain for ten years, of racial discrimination.
After a hospital investigation supported the consultant in his enforcement of the dress code, the Muslim surgeon left the hospital.
Religious headscarfs are 'excluded in areas such as theatre, where they could present a health and cross-infection hazard', according to the strict dress code.
At the time, the incident was not made public.
But Dr Rogozov, a consultant anaesthetist, was suspended last month for revealing details of the incident, which happened in 2013, as well as other surgeons' more recent behaviour in an interview with an Internet blog.

Company director, 41, and the heavily pregnant lover he is accused of trying to stab to death in the street

Smiling side by side, this is the company director and the lover he is accused of trying to stab to death while she was heavily pregnant.
Babur Karamat Raja, 41, will face Birmingham magistrates this morning charged with two counts of attempting to murder Natalie Queiroz.
The sports-car driving businessman also faces allegations of assault, attempted child destruction and possession of a knife.

Smiling side by side, this is the company director and the lover he is accused of trying to stab to death while she was heavily pregnant.

Brave bride loses cancer battle just ten days after marrying partner of 10 years

Brave bride and New Day columnist Mo Akhtar has died from cancer just 10 days after marrying her partner of 10 years.

Mo, 32, from Bow, East London wed Farbaz, 40, in St Joseph’s Hospice in Hackney on 19 March.

She started an emotional diary for publication in The New Day to chart her first days as a newly-wed, and some of the last days of her life.

Her hope was to raise awareness of lung cancer in young people and her words struck a chord with thousands.

Tragically, she passed away at home on the same day her first entry was published, last Monday.

Farbaz said: “She wanted for her thoughts and words to be read in the paper and keeping them going has been a tribute to her.”

Iranian billionaire Babak Zanjani sentenced to death over $2.8 billion fraud

Following a long trial in which he was accused of fraudulently pocketing $2.8 billion, Iran's billionaire tycoon Babak Zanjani has been sentenced to death, a judicial official said today March 6. The 41-year-old who is worth $13.5 billion and holds a Danish citizenship was convicted of fraud and economic crimes. 

Judiciary spokesman Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejeie said at the press conference that apart from the death sentence, Zanjani must repay money to the state.

Zanjani became notorious during the era of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, finding ways to channel hard currency from oil sales to Tehran despite financial sanctions imposed on the Islamic republic's banks as punishment for its nuclear programme.

Radicalised French girls cause police manhunt in Paris

There is a manhunt for two radicalised French teenage girls suspected of leaving for Syria by the French Police. Over the police had tweeted a photo of the girls, Louisa and Israe, who they said were “likely using false identities and will attempt by any means possible to leave the country”.

“Her parents alerted national police that she came home around 4pm” investigators in Annecy in charge of tracking down the runaways told AFP.

The girls were last seen around 1pm on Friday, March 4th when they left their school, Carillons de Seynod High School, according to public prosecutors.

Sun Ladies - former sex slaves waging war on ISIS beasts who tortured and raped them

They are the Force of the Sun Ladies – many of them former ISIS sex slaves who have escaped their jihadi tormentors.

They have suffered the worst atrocities imaginable, rape and torture – with some having lost everything, reports the New Day.

One woman describes giving birth while being held as a sex slave then being forbidden to feed her newborn son.

When her baby cried out in hunger, the woman’s captor beheaded him.

The grief endured by these women is unimaginable.

Having escaped their captors, were they to have abandoned all hope and turned their faces to the wall, the world would have understood their despair.

Adolf Hitler's disgusting sex fetish exposed by top secret dossier that claims Fuhrer had 'poo sex' passion

Adolf Hitler had a revolting sexual fetish according to a top secret spy dossier.

Wartime studies by a US intelligence agency found the evil Furher had a passion for "poo sex".

The Nazi leader reportedly loved women performing the act while standing over him.

This disgusting revelation comes after it emerged Hitler 'had a micro penis as well as   just having one testicle'.

The computer legend who invented email has died

Internet Hall of Famer Ray Tomlinson has died.

Tomlinson was the man who basically invented email as we know it today, including making the choice to use the "@" sign in an email address. He was 74.

Tomlinson invented email, a system where a user on one network could send a message to someone on another network, in 1971.

He proceeded to win many awards over his lifetime for email. But he couldn't say what the first email ever sent actually said.

When asked about it in an interview with The New York Times in 2009, Tomlinson explained, "I sent a number of test messages to myself from one machine to the other. The test messages were entirely forgettable and I have, therefore, forgotten them."

On Saturday, the man widely recognized as the grandfather of the internet, Vint Cerf, tweeted the news that Tomlinson had passed away.

BREAKING NEWS: Nancy Reagan has died at 94

Nancy Reagan has died at the age of 94.

The former First Lady, wife of President Ronald Reagan, passed away in Bel Air on Sunday after suffering congestive heart failure.

Starting as an actress in the 1940s and 1950s, she married Ronald Reagan - then president of the Screen Actors Guild - in 1952.

Mrs Reagan was an influential First Lady during her husband's presidency from 1981 to 1989. 

Notably she spearheaded the 'Just Say No' to campaign against drugs, speaking at schools and appearing on TV shows such as Dynasty and Diff'rent Strokes to promote the cause.

'Drugs take away the dream from every child’s heart and replace it with a nightmare, and it’s time we in America stand up and replace those dreams,' she said in a speech which led to 12,000 Just Say No clubs being set up across the country and a Just Say No Week implemented by Congress.

Her efforts are credited with driving cocaine use down to a 10-year low.

Ronald Reagan died on June 5, 2004, after a 10-year battle with Alzheimer's disease. 

In recent years, Nancy struggled with her health after falling at home and breaking three ribs in 2012, not long after breaking her pelvis at home in 2008. 

Despite her own health setbacks, however, Mrs Reagan remained active in politics, particularly in relation to stem-cell research.

15 ways to stay focused all day, according to scientists

What was I doing again?

We've all had days where we can't seem to focus, asking that question too many times to count. For some of us, those days are more common than we'd like.

Whether it's fatigue, distractions, lack of motivation, or something else entirely, our inability to focus digs a hole in our productivity and, therefore, can jeopardize our chances of success.

But you don't have to go to extremes, like the main character in "The Wolf of Wall Street" does, to get focused. There are better ways.

Here are 15 tips that scientists have found that enhance focus.

Minimize multitasking.

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Multitaskers might seem superhuman, but they pay a big price, according to a 2009 Stanford study. In a sample of 100 Stanford students, about half identified themselves as media multitaskers. The other half did not.

The test examined attention spans, memory capacity, and ability to switch from one task to the next — and the multitaskers performed more poorly on each test.

"They're suckers for irrelevancy. Everything distracts them," Clifford Nass, who was a researcher for the study, said in a Stanford press release.

Man accidentally kills himself while taking a selfie with a gun

Selfies are usually harmless, but occasionally, they can be deadly. That was the case for one Washington man who decided to snap a photo of himself with a firearm in hand.

Police in Concrete, Washington, have ruled the man's death an accident after he shot and killed himself while attempting to pose for a selfie. The man's girlfriend told investigators that the couple had snapped several photos with the weapon throughout the day but that a bullet had accidentally been left in it during the incident.

As strange as this tragedy may seem, it's just one of several selfie-related deaths and injuries reported so far in 2016. The causes range from Bison attacks to drowning, but all of the incidents occurred while the victims were trying to capture a particularly striking self-portrait.

It's also not the first gun death to involve a selfie. In 2013, a teenage girl in Arizona accidentally killed her brother while the two posed for photos that they planned to post on Facebook

Take a Deep Dive in This Two-Passenger Personal Sub

Billed by its Florida-based manufacturer as the world’s deepest-diving submersible with a transparent acrylic hull, the Triton Submarines Triton 6600/2 (tritonsubs.com) is designed to take its pilot and passenger 6,600 feet below the surface of the ocean. The passenger compartment remains at surface pressure regardless of the depth of the dive.

The orb-shaped hull enclosing the compartment provides an unobstructed view of the surroundings, and six standard-equipment 20,000-lumen lights illuminate the view. The sub travels at 3 knots, so it takes about an hour to reach its maximum depth, but the lithium-battery bank powering the propulsion system is good for a 10-hour dive. The sub’s starting price is $5.5 million.

$100 Million Beverly Hills Home on Billionaire’s Row Hits the Market [EXCLUSIVE]

Designer and developer Michael Palumbo has created a profusion of jaw-dropping residences, but he says his latest project—a $100 million estate that will be built in Beverly Hills, Calif.—is his greatest work yet. “I’ve been doing this for 33 years and this is probably the biggest labor of love and the best project I’ve been involved with,” says Palumbo. “It’s the pinnacle of my career.”

Inspired by a floating estate in Singapore, Palumbo envisioned a compound-style home that revolves around water. Under his guidance, plans for the grandiose residence were designed by award-winning architects Shubin + Donaldson. Blueprints for the 24,500-square-foot estate feature seven bedrooms (including a 3,100-square-foot master suite with private access to a rooftop garden); 14 bathrooms; a great room with a hidden bar; and an 18-seat dining room—all wreathed in eye-catching water features.

Bobby Brown outraged over release of daughter's autopsy report

Bobby Brown released a statement yesterday after news outlets sued to have his daughter Bobbi Kristina's autopsy report unsealed and a judge granted that wish, revealing that his daughter died from a combination of drugs, drinking and drowning, same way Whitney Houston died..

“First and foremost, 23 years ago today, Bobbi Kristina was born. Krissy will always live in my heart and soul. I love my baby girl. For news affiliates to seek and obtain my daughter’s autopsy report, before anyone has been brought to justice for her death is mind blowing to me. Please pray for my family.” Bobby Brown said...