A British woman oblivious of her pregnancy gave birth to a child when she visited a hospital for back pain, local media reported Monday.Kayleigh Renwick, a 24-year-old nurse from County Durham, was just hoping to relieve her backache when she visited a hospital in May this year. She had initially suspected a kidney infection as the source of her pain.Instead she found out -- for the very first time -- that she was carrying a child. Shocked, Renwick visited the University Hospital of North Durha

The more social circles or Facebook friends a person has, the more likely social media can become a source of stress, Scottish researchers say.The more groups of people in someone‘s Facebook friends, researchers at the University of Edinburgh Business School reported, the greater the potential to cause offense, particularly if employers or parents are included.Stress rises when users present a version of themselves on Facebook that is unacceptable to some of their online “friends,” the researche

Open discussion and panel key to contemporary history museum’s independence, says museum council head

NEW YORK (AFP) ― Men’s magazine GQ has named blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng its rebel of the year, seven months after his escape from house arrest and flight to the U.S. embassy sparked a diplomatic row.Chen, who left China for the United States after fleeing his home in eastern Shandong province, was named alongside figures including sprinter Usain Bolt and actor Philip Seymour Hoffman as the magazine’s men of the year.In an article accompanying his profile in the publication, Chen wrot

Korea is often lauded for its rags to riches story but, even to this day, the country struggles with tuberculosis, a disease associated with poverty and the developing world.As recently as August, an outbreak of tuberculosis was reported at a cram school in Yangcheon-gu, western Seoul, infecting more than 40 students and teachers with the highly contagious disease. Some 120 more carried the latent form of TB, according to local health officials at the time. That outbreak was no aberration. In fa

Luo Yang, who headed China’s fighter-jet building program as chairman and president of Shenyang Aircraft Corp., died yesterday during landing tests for the nation’s first aircraft carrier.Luo, 51, had a heart attack while helping oversee the tests, Shenyang Aircraft’s parent, state-controlled Aviation Industry Corp. of China, said today in an e-mailed statement.A J-15 fighter, built by Shenyang Aircraft, successfully landed on the carrier Liaoning over the weekend, the first time a Chinese aircr

An autopsy report suggests former Turkish president Turgut Ozal died of poisoning in 1993, sources told Today's Zaman.The Turkish newspaper said strychnine appears to be the cause of Ozal's death, and that the pesticide DDT was also found in his system.The Council on Forensic Medicine (ATK) exhumed Ozal's body based on suspicions about his death among family members and current president Abdullah Gul. The report has not been officially released, but sources told Today's Zaman the ATK had changed

Some predict smartphones, computers and video games may replace TV, but Canadian researchers say families watching television together is a unifying force. “Young Canadians today live in a different world than that experienced by previous generations. In this context, many well-placed observers have predicted the impending death of television,” Dr. Andre H. Caron of the Universite de Montreal and director of the Center for Youth and Media Studies, said in a statement. “We wanted to test the vera

Many students will be pulling all-nighters to prepare for final exams, but U.S. researchers say a good night‘s sleep may be a better idea. Dr. Philip Alapat, medical director of the Harris Health Sleep Disorders Center and assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine, recommends students study throughout the semester, set up study sessions in the evening because it is the optimal time of alertness and concentration and get at least 8 hours of sleep the night before exams.“Memory recall and

NEW DELHI (AP) ― Shammo Khan walks into a dusty courtyard that reeks of garbage, searching for the fingerprint of a man exhausted by HIV, drug withdrawal and the tuberculosis lesions hijacking his lungs. She opens her laptop on his rope bed, prods the emaciated man to log in on a fingerprint reader and watches him slowly and painfully swallow a handful of TB drugs in an experimental program harnessing new technology to combat an ancient killer still ravaging India. Private companies, aid groups

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― J.R. Ewing was a business cheat, faithless husband and bottomless well of corruption. Yet with his sparkling grin, Larry Hagman masterfully created the charmingly loathsome oil baron ― and coaxed forth a Texas-size gusher of ratings ― on television’s long-running and hugely successful nighttime soap, “Dallas.” Although he first gained fame as nice guy Air Force Major Tony Nelson on the fluffy 1965-70 NBC comedy “I Dream of Jeannie,” Hagman earned his greatest stardom with J.R.

Film actor Ahn Sung-ki will be honored with a museum dedicated to his illustrious 50-plus years in the movie industry.The Ahn Sung-ki Movie Museum is expected to open sometime in 2014 in Gangwon Province and will display various film memorabilia, props, costumes, trophies and awards from the former child actor, who has since appeared in nearly 100 movies. Ahn, 60, the son of a producer, made his debut in the entertainment industry at the young age of 5 in the film “Twilight Train” in 1957. As a

A cyber museum chronicling the life of Chung Ju-yung, late founder of Hyundai Group, opened Sunday.The website, www.asan-chungjuyung.com, launched by Hyundai Motor Group, looks back at his entrepreneurship and challenges. It consists mainly of three sections: Chung Ju-yung talks; Acquaintances talk; and a memorial hall containing various records.The first part where Chung tells his story takes the form of a movie, in which he delivers messages of challenge, creativity and hope to the current gen