A nice smile is the first thing women look for in a man – while all blokes want is a girl with a good figure. Top 20 things men and women find irresistible A study of 4,000 adults revealed most women found a flirtatious grin irresistible, along with lingering eye contact and a man’s strong arms. Blokes who answered the survey were slightly less cultured in their views – hailing ‘a great body’ as the number one turn-on, followed by a stunning cleavage. Women also said generosity, intelligence and an affectionate side were important as was a good body, passion … Continue reading Are you irresistible?

Deepest Part of the Ocean The Mariana Trench is located in the Pacific Ocean, just east of the 14 Mariana Islands (11″21′ North latitude and 142″ 12′ East longitude ) near Japan.   As you probably already know, it is the deepest part of the earth’s oceans, and the deepest location of the earth itself.  It was created by ocean-to-ocean subduction, a phenomena in which a plate topped by oceanic crust is subducted beneath another plate topped by oceanic crust. Fact-The Mariana Trench is 11,033 meters (36,201 feet), (6033.5) fathoms deep. The Pressure at the deepest part of the Mariana Trench … Continue reading Deepest Part of the Ocean

As a part of the aviation industry’s desperate attempts to cut costs and reduce missions, there have been designers envisioning a clean future where transportation will rely heavily on alternative sources of fuel. When cost-efficient transport is the need, airships mostly win over aircraft and other conventional means. Designers over the world are today envisioning bright prospects that might just change urban transportation and even surveillance forever. Here is a list of 20 such striking airship designs that could well make our planet a much better place to live in:

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Iqbal’s Heidelberg; Heidelberg’s Iqbal For a few years now I have worked for a European company headquartered near Heidelberg in Germany so I have had an opportunity to visit this lovely, historic city several times. Heidelberg is a beautiful town located on the banks of the river Neckar which originates in the Black Forest and flows into the river Rhine only 12 miles northwest of the city. But before I had ever been to Heidelberg, the city was associated in my mind with the great poet-philosopher Dr. Muhammad Iqbal. And so, my recent trips to Heidelberg have turned into opportunities … Continue reading Heidelberg’s Iqbal

THE ROVING EYE The BRIC post-Washington consensus By Pepe Escobar The BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) got together in the Brazilian capital, Brasilia, on Thursday with a bang. After meeting Chinese President Hu Jintao, and once again condemning an “asymmetric, dysfunctional globalization”, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was at his ebullient best: “A new global economic geography has been born.” Well, not quite. Not yet. Anyone across the world fed up with Somali pirates in Zegna suits disrupting global trade is interested in what the BRICs are (potentially) up to. The world’s largest developing countries, bound … Continue reading BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) got together in the Brazilian capital

US backtracks on Kandahar shuras By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON – The United States military has now officially backtracked from its earlier suggestion that it would seek the consent of local shuras, or consultative conferences with those elders, to carry out the military occupation of Kandahar city and nearby districts – contradicting a pledge by Afghan President Hamid Karzai not to carry out the operation without such consent. Lieutenant Colonel Tadd Sholtis, a spokesman for General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of US and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) troops in Afghanistan, told Inter Press Service on Tuesday that local tribal elders … Continue reading Kandahar shuras?

Syria smarts over Israeli accusations By Sami Moubayed DAMASCUS – On April 12, the United States celebrated the 65th anniversary of the passing of its war-time president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Memorable quotes of the leader were published in mainstream media, reminding the world of a man who tried – at all costs – to shake off the Great Depression and prevent his country from venturing into World War II. At the same time, talk of war began to surface in the Middle East when Israeli President Shimon Peres accused Syria of supplying missiles to Hezbollah in Lebanon. The Syrian Embassy … Continue reading Syria smarts over Israeli accusations

The flying Sikh and the peacenik By M K Bhadrakumar Senior Indian officials in their private briefing insist there was “almost a Zen-like spiritual quality” to the meeting between Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and United States President Barack Obama in Washington last Sunday. However, the question being posed by the Indian strategic community is still: “Does Obama care about India?” At the bottom of such poignantly contrasting characterizations of statecraft lie two factors. First, the residual feudal mindset of the Indian invariably attributes what are in reality flaws in policies to personal vagaries in the thinking of the leader. … Continue reading India feel jilted!

China earthquake: Tibetan vulture sky burials abandoned as bodies pile up Tibetan monks are forced to cremate bodies as the death toll from Wednesday’s earthquake continues to climb. Malcolm Moore reports from Jiegu. By Malcolm Moore in Jiegu telegraph.co.uk A Tibetan Buddhist monk waters down the deceased at the Jiegu Monastery Photo: AFP / GETTY Tibetan monks look for survivors amidst the rubble in Jiegu Town Photo: EPA The corpses are piled three-deep at Jiegu’s Tibetan Buddhist monastery, perched on the mountain above the earthquake-ravaged town. “More than a thousand bodies were brought here,” said Ge Laidanzeng, a 20-year-old Tibetan … Continue reading Tibetan vulture sky burials abandoned as bodies pile up

Nuclear manoeuvres By Cyril Almeida dawn.com It’s unclear to what extent the credit for the nuclear programme goes to Kayani, but it is noticeable that on his watch the army has become more forthright. –Photo by AP Occasionally, very occasionally, the military mind here hits upon a good idea. The offer to supply nuclear fuel cycle services under IAEA safeguards may be one of those ideas. Let’s begin with the science bit in this maze of scientific jargon and high-stakes international politics. What Pakistan has offered is analogous to an oil-refining facility. If you have a generator and barrels of … Continue reading Nuclear manoeuvres in Pakistan