Brussels - European women should be given longer and better-paid maternity leave and be allowed to ask for flexible working hours when they return to work, the European Union's executive body said Friday.

"Only 65.5 per cent of women with dependent children are in work, compared with 91.7 per cent of men. Our proposals to improve maternity leave will help women to combine work and family life," EU equal-opportunities commissioner Vladimir Spidla said.

Paris, Jan. 31: President Nicolas Sarkozy has been accused of ruling France like a ''monarch from another age''.

According to The Telegraph, the criticism followed his alleged role in the removal of the top state representative and a police chief from a region after protesters slightly disrupted his visit.

Studies from time to time have proved various health benefits offered by the red wine. Red wine can help in keeping the heart healthy. It is also offer protection against radiation.

Recent research has added one more point in long list of health benefits of red wine.

Researchers have found that red wine contains resveratrol, a natural antioxidant, that may help in preventing cancer and protects people heart and brain from getting damage.

This study was led by Lindsay Brown, an associate professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences at The University of Queensland.

London, Mar. 23: England and Portsmouth mid-fielder Peter Crouch has had worse days, but hours after netting a brace in Portsmouth’s win over Everton, he made it a hat-trick by taking gorgeous Abbey Clancy out for dinner.

The pair scored some posh nosh at the Zuma restaurant in London, reports The Sun.

Things, it seems, are going well both on and off the pitch for the former Liverpool shooter.

London, Sept 10 : The British Government is reportedly planning to lift the ban on liquids being carried by passengers in their hand bags by early next year, as over the past two years (since the ban was imposed in August 2006), the country had been incurring heavy costs to the tune of “tens of millions” of pounds in paying for the nearly 
3000 extra staff posted at different airports for frisking passengers for liquids in hand bags.

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Termez, Uzbekistan  - German Chancellor Angela Merkel left Afghanistan Tuesday, after bad weather forced her to cut short a surprise visit to German troops in the region.

The chancellor, who had to cancel a planned excursion to the German military base in Feyzabad due to bad flying conditions, departed Tuesday morning from the Termez military base in neighbouring Uzbekistan.

Merkel's two-day visit came shortly after NATO set a new strategy for Afghanistan, placing a greater emphasis on reconstruction, alongside its military fight against the Taliban.

New Delhi, Mar 29 : The Election Commission has issued notice to the Samajwadi Party (SP) chief and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, for allegedly misbehaving with a senior officer in Uttar Pradesh.

Addressing media persons, the Election Commissioner S. Y. Qureshi said the commission has given special directions to its officials to monitor the media so that suo moto action could be taken against candidates who are creating nuisance.

Two men working as domestic help were arrested on Monday by the Gamdevi police for allegedly stealing jewels and cash worth Rs 40 lakh a day before Diwali.

Sanjay Diwadkar, senior police inspector at Gamdevi police station, said that on Diwali night, diamond merchant Manikchand Kothari was getting ready for Lakhmi pooja when he found jewellery and cash worth Rs 40 lakh missing from his cupboard.

Living on the 13th floor of Shreepati Arcade at Nana Chowk, he had six men working as domestic help for his family of three. Of the six, Chandu Yadav (30) and Prakash Pratiyar (17) were prime suspects.

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Mustardseed yesterday traded with the negative node and settled -0.04% down at 2807 on profit booking. Rain is urgently needed by rapeseed in the European Union's main producing countries, and there are increasing signs the crop in top producer Germany has suffered significant drought damage. In the Sriganganagar spot market in Rajasthan the price edged down by -1.25 rupee to 2668.75 rupees per 20 kgs. In yesterday's trading session Mustardseed has touched the low of 2796 after opening at 2804, and finally settled at 2807.

Madrid - Spain's biggest airline, Iberia, cancelled 185 flights on Wednesday as cabin crew staged their fourth one-day work stoppage over pay, sources of the carrier said.

The cancelled flights included 120 national and 65 international ones, affecting some 20,000 passengers. A similar number of flights was called off on Tuesday.

Madrid airport was reported to be functioning normally except for the complaints of some passengers at Iberia counters. The airline has offered affected passengers the possibility of changing their tickets or getting their money back.

Washington, Jan 4: A new report has claimed that the warming of the North Atlantic Ocean’s surface waters is more attributable to natural variability, than global warming.

The report suggests that though human-caused global warming may be affecting recent ocean heating trends, the data collected by researchers can’t support that view for the North Atlantic.

“It is premature to conclusively attribute these regional patterns of heat gain to greenhouse warming,” said the researchers.

Peshawar, Mar. 7: The Pakistan Government has classified the Taliban into three categories black, gray and white.

The police investigation manual sees black and gray categories of Taliban prisoners as a serious threat to national security, while the ‘white category’ Talibanis are not considered very harmful.

On Friday, NWEF Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti announced that the only ‘white category Taliban prisoners’ would be released as part of the peace deal in Swat.

“I have directed the home secretary to look into the cases of those prisoners who are in the white category. We will not free prisoners in black and gray categories,” the Daily Times quoted Hoti, as saying.

Washington, Jan 27 : People might refuse to buy a carton of "expired" milk from a store, but when it comes to pouring the same milk into cup of coffee at breakfast, they won't blink an eye. Now, a group of scientists has delved into individuals' psyche to know why they have different freshness standards at home.

The new study has detailed the reasons behind why consumers tend to consume products that are past their expiration dates if they are in their refrigerators than if they are in a store.

For the study, the authors Sankar Sen and Lauren G. Block (both Baruch College/CUNY) explored a phenomenon termed the "endowment effect," meaning that owning a product increases a consumer''s valuation of it.