Following a study by the UK Medical Research Council into effective ways to reduce weight, over 300 women feel let down.
The MRC took 770 overweight women from Germany, Austria and the UK, sent half to their GP for help and the others were sent t...
"I am very sad to tell you that I've just been fired over the phone by Yahoo's chairman of the board," said Carol Bartz in her final email to her employees as CEO of Yahoo.
A memorable moment indeed.
But what of her other memorable moments as Commander-in-Chief of the company? Here are the top 10:
1. Instituted "Chili Day" in the company cafeteria.
2. Learned how to land the corporate...
London - Preposterous New Labour apparatchick (sic) Barrenness Ashton thinks she's a general fighting some sort of holy Blairite war.
At NATO HQ in Brussels intelligence chiefs have laughed themselves silly at news of an Irish Republican Army ploy...
A crowd of more than 20 people turned up at Trouser World in South Benfleet yesterday to see 70's television celebrity Keith 'Cheggers' Chegwin receive the prestigious title of 'Trouser Wearer of The Year 2011.
A delighted Keith told us:
"It's...
TRIPOLI, LIBYA - A Tripoli military official said Wednesday that rebel forces had cornered Moammar Gadhafi in Bani Walid, a dusty city of 100,000 overlooking a dried-up desert river connecting Sirte and Sabha. But another senior official contended t...
A new development on Britain's roads is causing concern in Whitehall. A truck has gone missing 'somewhere in the Midlands' after falling down a hole in the road.
Passers by looked in shocked horror as the truck carrying a load of furniture plunge...
Rick Perry doesn't think the world is becoming warmer, it is just becoming nicer for people that enjoy wearing shorts.
"I don't believe that goofy theory of global warming. There was this really cool guy called Galileo, yeah, I read all his books...
London - Fears that his pretence to the Throne of Albion has been rumbled have resulted in Prince Charles launching yet another 'extinction' rant.
The destruction of a carefully crafted royal fiction had seen him sitting pretty on his royal compos...
A London Colney office cleaner who works at Arsenal's training ground has admitted using the Arsenal fax machine to mastermind 5 late transfer window signings.
Arsene Wenger returned this week to London Colney to find five new signings had been m...
There is more bad news for the Japanese as it has been discovered that the radiation from Fukushima's destroyed reactor is affecting the way nearby residents create cholesterol.
"At first," said Professor Ann Hetty who was leading the study, "we t...
After a series of shock accidents parliament is to impose a blanket ban on applause across England and Wales. Applause will still be allowed in Scotland whilst ministers there debate the health and safety of this dangerous activity.
"Hospital A&am...
Busy Madonna was caught out at the Venice Film festival when an Italian fan accessed the closed event and asked her to sign his copy of her iconic Like a Virgin album. In a faux pas for a celebrity who is normally so image conscious, Madonna was over...
It has been 'all go' since winning her second Mercury prize and it doesn't look as if the media merry go round shows any signs of slowing for pops diminutive, happy go lucky and playful poppet, Polly Jean Harvey.
After a whirlwind tour of breakfas...
The conurbations of England may have seen its share of troubles of late, with hoards of the great unwanted roaming the shopping arcades and retail boulevards, on the look out for a free take home treat of a flat TV or DVD, but an altogether quieter r...
The eight Scottish police forces are to merge over the next year to save administration costs.
"This will allow us to save money," said stereotypical Scot and leader of the Scottish Parliament, Michael Moore. "Something all stereotypical Scots sho...
NEW YORK CITY - Donald Trump realizing that it has really been quite a rough two years for Kate Gosselin has asked her to appear on his next edition of Celebrity Apprentice.
Trump was recently interviewed by Tilapia Frisbee of The Right Coast Illu...
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - Bernie Madoff has taken umbrage to Rick Perry's comments that Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme".
"As the architect of the largest Ponzi scheme in the world I find it extremely offensive that Perry could compare my inves...
HOLLYWOOD - Nick Cannon and Piers Morgan were both sharply dressed and looked like they had both stepped off of a wedding cake, but not a gay one insisted Morgan. Howie Mandel looked like he'd just cut his front lawn, and Sharon Osbourne looked like...
A man I know who, in an instant, threw away his marriage, wife and children for the attentions of another, younger woman, is now regretting his impulsiveness, and part of him, at least, wishes he was back with his family.
The man's name, which I cannot reveal for personal reasons, left his wife of 22 years, and two children aged 15 and 9, in April, throwing their lives into chaos, and his own i...