London, July 28 : A majority of British citizens believe that the Conservative Party leader David Cameron is ready to govern the country after next election, an opinion poll has pointed.
According to ComRes poll, a majority of people (53 per cent) think that the Tories are ready to govern after the next election, while 37 per cent disagree.
Almost one in four Labour voters (23 per cent) agrees. The findings increase the pressure on Prime Minister Gordon Brown as he tries to head off moves by his own party to force him to stand down, The Independent reported.
London, July 28 : The major milestone in Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s campaign after his Berlin moment in front of 200,000 Germans, will be the selection of a vice presidential candidate.
The selection of a vice-presidential candidate is “the one last remaining wild card in any campaign for the presidency,” said Obama’s spokesman Robert Gibbs after the Illinois Senator wrapped up his 16,000-mile tour in London.
“It will cause a pretty big ripple,” The Independent quoted Gibbs, as saying.
London, July 28 : When it comes to seducing a woman, nothing, as it turns out, works better than a man with a self-deprecating sense of humour.
What''''s more is that this finding is based on a two-year scientific research which found that men who can poke fun at themselves are most the ones that are sexual magnets for women.
As a part of the study lead author Gil Greengross, of the University of New Mexico in the US and her colleagues asked female students to listen to tape recordings of men talking about themselves.
The women were then asked to score the men on sexual attractiveness.
London, July 28 : A new study, led by researchers from King''s College London, has shown that cases of dementia in the developing world are far more prevalent than previously thought, suggesting that the previous research had substantially underestimated the problem.
Recent estimates have shown that over 24 million people live with dementia worldwide, with 4.6 million new cases every year.
However, a number of studies have suggested that the prevalence of dementia in the developing world is between a quarter and a fifth of that typically recorded in developed countries.
Now, the new study has cast a doubt on these results.
London, July 27 : Forget polishing resume to find a suitable job, for your looks are more than enough to do the trick, suggests a new study, which has found that a majority of jobseekers are not hired because of their "bad dress sense" and "poor appearance".
Experts have called for style makeovers to get the long-term unemployed into work.
The Scottish Centre for Employment Research believes that image problems are a very real barrier to interview success.
Their conclusions are based on a survey of 500 high-street retailers in which they found that the vast majority had not hired staff because of the way they looked.
