Around 900,000 people die of tobacco-related illnesses in India each year
Health campaigners have welcomed India’s plans to raise the age for tobacco purchases to 25 and ban unpackaged cigarettes.
The plans have been welcomed as a major step towards stopping nearly one million tobacco-related deaths a year.
Some people spend a lifetime trying to amass a fortune through hard work and guile. For one British man, it took only 20 minutes in a field with a metal detector — the first 20 minutes he had ever used such a machine.
According to the St. Albans & Harpenden Review, Wesley Carrington took his newly bought metal detector out into a field near St. Albans in Hertfordshire, England, last October. After finding a spoon and then a half penny, Carrington’s machine beeped a third time, and he dug seven inches down to uncover a coin that was gold in color with a Roman figure on it.
A Rutgers student who was killed by a bear while hiking in New Jersey snapped photos of the 300-pound beast before it chased him, mauled him — and even gouged the phone the victim used to take his last pics.
Darsh Patel was walking with four friends through the Apshawa Preserve in West Milford in September when the black bear attacked.
A Buffalo police officer has been charged with taking $130 from a woman’s pocketbook while on duty this summer outside an Elmwood Avenue cafe.
Northwest District Officer Michael R. Missana, 42, was arraigned Thursday before acting State Supreme Court Justice M. William Boller on a sealed indictment charging him with petit larceny and official misconduct, Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III said.
Al-Anbar (IraqiNews.com) On Wednesday, the president of al-Baghdadi Council Malollah al-Abidi announced, that the ISIS military leader of Heet district and 22 of his key aides have been killed in an air strike yesterday.
The actor talks about returning to the ‘X-Men’ franchise, his Professor X origin story and the films’ metaphorical resonance
“I was not a comic book reader,” Patrick Stewart says, with a distinct note of apology. “Not those kind, anyway. I read storybook comics, and when I was much younger I read children’s cartoons. But I never read, nor indeed had any interest in, any of the Marvel-superhero type of comics.” There was a time when an eminent 73-year-old actor wouldn’t feel obliged to apologize for that lapse in four-color literacy, but that was before superhero movies ate Hollywood. And it’s partially his own fault: It wouldn’t have happened without the success of 2000’s X-Men, the first real Marvel superhero movie (1998’s Blade doesn’t quite count). With Stewart reprising his role as Professor X in X-Men: Days of Future Past, he took a few minutes to reminisce from his Brooklyn home about his pivotal part in X-history.
Construction worker and home remodeler David Gonzalez was in the middle of fixing up a home that he bought in Elbow Lake, Minnesota when, out of the blue, he found an issue of Action Comics #1 in a random wall. The specific comic that he found features the very first appearance of Superman. He bought the home for $10,100 and the comic is worth well over $100,000. In fact, after finding the comic, David put it up for auction on ComicConnect, a New York City-based online auction house. With 37 bids, it is currently up to $137,000 with a little over a day left to bid. It would have been worth a lot more, but a heated argument between David and his Aunt in-law left the comic with a nice little tear on the back cover (as seen below). It took the comic from a 3.0 quality rating down to a 1.5. “That was a $75,000 tear,” said co-owner of ComicConnect, Stephen Fishler.
Brain Cage 