Cairo  - The US military attache to Egypt visited Wednesday the Rafah border crossing point to inspect the security situation along the 14-kilometre Egyptian border with the Gaza Strip, witnesses s

Prague  -  Czech and US officials are likely to wrap up talks on the second missile defence treaty next week, Czech Defence Ministry said Wednesday.

New York  -  US banking group JP Morgan Chase reported Wednesday that its net income fell some 50 per cent to 2.37 billion dollars in the first quarter of 2008, reflecting the ongoing turmoil in US

New York  -  US soft drinks giant Coca Cola reported Wednesday that its first-quarter net income reached 1.5 billion dollars, surging 19 per cent from 1.26 billion dollars in the same 2007 period.

Washington, Apr 16 : Any plans of completing a century in one lifetime? Well, a leading explorer and book author who has studied elderly Costa Ricans has found several basic threads that connect the longest-lived.

According to Dan Buettner, some of the several ways are: a plant-based diet; regular, low-intensity activity; an investment in family; a sense of faith; and purpose.

"We know that people who make it to a hundred tend to be nice," National Geographic quoted him, as saying.

"They … drink from the fountain of life by being likeable and drawing people to them,” he added.

Buettner has explored and studied the world's centenarian hot spots—which he calls blue zones—over the past several years.

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