• iStyle Mix but don’t match

  Fortunately, this summer you can increase the amount of pigeon Italian you know by peppering conversations with the word "spezzato". For the uninitiated, this sartorial turn of phrase, when translated into English, literally means "broken". Apply this visually to what you wear, and it becomes the subtle art of mis-matching your jacket with your trousers. Sounds easy, right? ...

• NHS watchdog accused of hospital scandal cover-up

  Britain's NHS regulator has been accused of covering up their failure to prevent a scandal at a hospital maternity unit where at least eight babies are thought to have died from neglect, according to a damning report to be published ...

• Lifestyle Lift changes national ads after probe

  Four years after settling similar charges in New York, the plastic surgery company Lifestyle Lift reached a settlement with the Florida attorney general that requires it to change its marketing ...

• Psychiatrists call for action over premature deaths of mentally ill

  An international group of psychiatrists today launches a drive to end the global scandal of premature deaths among people suffering from severe mental ...

• UK defies European car sales downturn

  Sales were down 5.9 per cent against a year earlier across the European Union, falling to just 1.04 million, the ACEA car makers' association said. This was the worst May since 1993, when sales dropped below 1 million. The downturn punished all major markets as the eurozone wallows in a sixth straight quarter of recession and record unemployment. Sales plummeted 9.9 per cent in Germany and ...

• Universities Sport success not as vital as it used to be

  The days of universities seeking the best athletes and sportsmen and women to boost their sporting prowess appear to be over, according to a new ...

• CO Canal Towpath Trail ‘judged’ as great recreation

  The 185-mile C&O Canal Towpath Heritage Trail is managed by the National Park Service. This peaceful scene along the trail was taken by park volunteer Nancy ...

• T Magazine Three’s a Trend | The Sailor Look Floods Resort

  Looks from the resort collections of (from left) Valentino, Marc Jacobs and Chlo. Gone are the days of referring to the pre-spring collections as ';cruise.'; Yet several resort collections this season seemed high-seas-ready. Interpretations of the United States Navy uniform were both indirect (a very casual denim ensemble ...

• How a Showtime Documentary Could Shape News Access to Sport Events

  and news organizations about access and control. Like many professional sports associations with billion-dollar TV rights deals, the USTA doesn't allow just anybody with video cameras to show up at the U.S. Open. Instead, for those who want to cover the annual tennis competition with video equipment in tow, something more is required -- an invitation. The lawsuit says that the filmmakers ...

• Monsters U. L.A. premiere notes

  columns and arches, the attendees all wore Monsters U royal blue, and a marching band and some acrobatic cheerleaders kicked off the evening with a custom Monsters U chant. Sulley and Mike Wazowski clearly made the right choice when it came to their higher education. EW was on the scene and spoke to some of the cast and crew, new and old, about the film, the new characters to look forward to, ...

• Gravestone of late Mayor Koch had birth date wrong

  A worker at the Trinity Cemetery in Manhattan noticed last week that the gravestone's inscription shaved 18 years off the mayor's life after a stonecutter transposed two digits in his birth year, a Trinity spokeswoman said on ...

• Sports KPL Second leg begins

  "Kimani has been ruled out for one month but we have adequate cover because Eric Masika is coming back and Martin Imbalambala is also available. "It is in the midfield where we are incapacitated and may be forced to recall back Patrick Ongoma to help us," he said. Ongoma has been loaned out to fellow KPL side Homeboyz. In another match to be played on Saturday, former champions ...

• Letters The complex causes of underachievement

  Underachievement in state schools 'creates moral and political danger' , 15 June) - as are the future bankers, tax avoiders, and benefit fraudsters (though he didn't mention these). He is also right that we should "address the needs of our poorest children", though he is wrong when he says: "It is an issue that can only be tackled by central government taking very ...

• Letters Lift the unjust ban on prisoners votes

  The prisoners voting bill before parliament presents an opportunity to lift the unjust and outdated ban on all sentenced prisoners taking part in our democratic process. While those who have committed crimes may be rightly deprived of their liberty, they never cease to be citizens. The current system of blanket disenfranchisement is a violation of the UK's obligations under the European ...

• Gangs of Cairo Egyptian minister fights culture war

  View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Anti-Mursi protesters, made up of intellectuals and artists, demonstrate in front of the Ministry of Culture against what they claimed are increasing influence of the Muslim Brotherhood ...

• Brazil disgust as sport spotlights squeezed services

  Brazil’s middle class are demanding that public services be given a higher priority than football. The country is gearing up to host a global event for that next year; the sport is one step short of worship for millions of Brazilians; but while hospital and school budgets go hungry, many are furious that 11 billion euros is being spent preparing for the Confederation Cup. What lit the ...

• Kanye... or Lucille Bluth Quiz

  ';I Am a God'; — subtle, ‘Ye — you’ll realize that West’s true kindred spirit is none other than Lucille Bluth. Think about it. If Arrested ...

• John Mayer song about Taylor Swift

  Image Credit: Kevin Mazur/WireImage It’s been a while since we’ve heard John Mayer’s voice, thanks to the barrage of health problems that drove him to announce ...

• Safe sleep rule a must for all

  Concern has been raised over the number of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome fatalities occurring when a baby is being cared for by a secondary carer such as a grandparent, friend or babysitter.SIDS and Kids WA neonatal nurse and education officer Monnia Volpi-Wise estimated that a quarter of SIDS deaths in Australia happened when parents left someone else in charge.She questioned whether protective ...

• Top cop blasts booze industry

  Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan is expected to launch an extraordinary attack today on the liquor industry and politicians who baulk at a stand against WA's culture of youth alcohol abuse.Mr O'Callaghan is a keynote speaker at a National Alliance for Action on Alcohol forum in Canberra that is expected to attract the major political parties.Yesterday, he said he simply wants ...

• Australia Moves to Rein in Gambling Ads in Sports

  Tune into virtually any major sport in Australia, from rugby to cricket to tennis, and you’re likely to be bombarded by commercials touting the latest odds on the game. Legal sports gambling is a multi-billion-dollar industry in Australia, where betting websites sponsor major teams and buy up stadium naming rights. Imagine a ';Bet365″ logo plastered across the back of a Los ...

• Lifestyle Parents association opposes computer project terms it white elephant in the offing

  The project is intended to benefit about 1.4 million pupils set to join Standard One next year. Kenya National Association of Parents secretary general Musau Ndunda said the project is not a priority and expressed fear that it will turn out to be another white elephant. He noted that there is a lot of wastage in the education sector because the Government does not carry out assessment of ...

• Lifestyle Why free laptops will not soothe this school

  The rickety desk creaks as Sudhow Abdi, 13, a Standard Seven pupil at Bura Primary School in Fafi Constituency, Garissa County, adjusts her sitting ...

• Lifestyle Your child cant grasp maths It is not in the genes says study

  research ers at Institute of of University of London and Buckingham University indicate genetic make-up contribute very little towards children's reading skills and overall academic performance. According to Dr John Jerrim and his colleagues at Institute of , the effects of genes that are believed to be significant for reading ability are very small. "Even if those genes influence ...

• Lifestyle Zetech gets Cisco academy certification

  This increases the number of local institutions that have been certified to be academies under the African Advanced Level Telecommunications Institute (Afralti) to offer Cisco courses. According to the ...

• Lifestyle Crisis looms as KNH workers threaten strike

  KNH grounds yesterday, chanting slogans vowing to stay away from work beginning today until the hospital management pay them 46 per cent salary increase for two years effective July 1, 2011. The workers also want a house allowance of 23 per cent and leave allowance of between Sh1,500 and ...

• Lifestyle Students walk for 106km to bring peace in Baragoi

  students from schools in Maralal, Samburu and Pokot areas joined Ibrahim and other peace ambassadors for a peace march that covered 106km. The walk from Maralal ...

• Independence looks to expand fitness options after closing of the YMCA

  Independence parks officials this fall hope to expand programming and upgrade facilities to fill the void left by the closing of the Independence YMCA earlier this ...

• Five essentials for the pampered surfer girl

  This kit comes with everything a seasoned surfer could need for a day on the water: energy shots, a sunblock stick, and cooling gel, with one per cent of the profits going to the SurfRider foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to keeping our oceans clean ...

• Border goes in to bat to protect skin

  Former Australian cricket captain Allan Border was renowned for his skilful cut shot but it is a different kind of cut he is concentrating on now.Border was in Parliament House, Canberra, yesterday in his role as an ambassador for the Know Your Own Skin campaign promoting the importance of regularly checking your skin. The one-time holder of the record for most Test runs met a range of ...

• Apps A poke in the eye for social-network friends

  Most social networks are designed to help you connect with your friends (or online admirers) but Hell is Other People promises to keep you as far away from your pesky online friends (and genuine ones) as possible. To keep you off-grid, the app takes your friends' check-in data from your Foursquare account and then works out "optimally-distanced locations" to make sure you ...

• Nike Air Max trainers The return of Nineties sole hits

  Not long ago, the only people in a pair of Nike Air Max trainers were sneaker geeks and those rave babies who couldn't quite get over the fact that acid house was dead and the Nineties were, like, totally over, ...

• There’s an air of David Hockney but Burberry fails to make a bigger splash

  And with a relentless, even daunting focus on youth behind the scenes and inside the clothes on the catwalk, fashion feels more than vaguely akin to a society where all over 30 are vaporized in the name of "renewal".For big fashion brands, however, most of that is null and void. It's still about growth: fiscal growth. More shops. More clothes - many, many more clothes.But for ...

• Girl Guides promise to serve Queen but no longer God and country

  Guides were trumpeted from the very first days of the organisation's existence in 1910. But now, following a consultation with members, God and country are out - leaving just the Queen.In one of the biggest overhauls undergone by guiding in the UK, girls will now instead promise to "be true to myself and develop my beliefs". They will also pledge "to serve my queen and ...

• Why Students And Taxpayers Are Subsidizing College Sports — And How We Might Fix It

  America’s colleges and universities used more than $2 billion in student fees — an average of more than $500 per student — to subsidize rapidly growing university athletic budgets, as Ohio University professor Richard ...

• Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan accused of choosing sex of baby

  Health officials in Mumbai are investigating reports that the Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan and his wife know the sex of a baby they are having through a surrogate ...

• Man of Steel A Superman debate

  already made a superhuman amount of money . It has also inspired a whole host of serious and extreme reactions, with some praising the grittier take on the Superman myth while others complain about the raw brutality and skyscraper-collapsing imagery in the film’s action-heavy second ...

• College Sport MAGS does demolition job in final

  National champions Mt Albert Grammar sent out an early warning that they will again be the team to beat after demolishing Tu Toa by 21 points in the televised college netball final. Obviously pleased with her team's 45-24 win, co-coach Paula Smith said they used the game as a team-building exercise and the chance to show their ability to push on throughout the match. Led by outstanding defender, ...

• Lifestyle Players raise concerns over laptop deal with Microsoft

  NAIROBI, KENYA: Players in the telecommunications service industry are raising concerns over the manner in which the Kenyan government is going about its school laptop ...

• Hackett London at London Collections Men

  Accompanied by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Hackett presented a collection that harked back to bygone days spent idling on a river bank, with nautical stripes, straw boaters and lightweight summer ...

• Food banks need to feed peoples hope and purpose not just their hunger | Nick Saul

  Too many food banks serve up little more than poor-quality food and shame when they could offer those on low-incomes a chance to take control of their lives and what they ...

• Sport picture of the day duck diving under the Hawaiian waves

  Underwater photography is normally associated with diving or competitive swimming, not surfing. But here Sarah Lee goes leftfield with a breathtaking picture of Allie Brown duck diving beneath the Hawaiian ...

• Australian sports firm refutes charges of financial irregularities

  Australian sports management firm Sports Marketing and Management (SMAM), which finds itself in the midst of controversy regarding the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, has refuted allegations of any financial ...

• How to get Game of Thrones-style braided hair

  MAC Cosmetics makeup artist Romero Jennings shows you how to get an authentic "Game of Thrones" beauty look, before Bumble and Bumble hairstylist Britney Williams sets to recreating a braided hair look from the ...

• Motherlode Blog Bullies’ May Prey on the Food Allergic

  ';In a recent survey of 251 sets of parents and children with food allergies, published in Pediatrics in January, roughly a third of the children reported being bullied for their allergies. … Surprisingly, classmates may prey on their vulnerability, plotting to switch a child's lunch to see if she gets sick, for example, or spitting milk at a child's face and causing a ...

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