WASHINGTON (AP) ― Paula Broadwell, whose extramarital affair with CIA chief David Petraeus led to his resignation, is telling friends she is devastated by the fallout. A person close to Broadwell said Sunday she deeply regrets the damage that’s been done to her family and everyone else’s, and she is trying to repair that and move forward. The friend spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. A group of friends and neighbors welcomed Broadwell, her husband, S

Many parents in Malaysia marry off children to curb promiscuity and ease financial burden

If tea is the fuel that India runs on then coffee is fast becoming the new cup that cheers.India drinks eight times more tea than coffee in a year. It is the beverage of the rich and poor alike, drunk at home and fancy tea parlors as well as on-the-go from roadside stalls and pushcarts.Still, its 1,950 branded coffee shops are mostly bustling with young Indians. Last week, Starbucks opened its first store to a rockstar reception in Mumbai, reinforcing the country’s growing love affair with the b

It often takes upward of 6 to 8 hours before stomachs start to rumble to signal hunger, so most hunger is from the mind, a U.S. medical expert suggests. Dr. Joseph Skelton, pediatrician and director of Brenner FIT at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, said most hunger comes from thinking about food, smelling food, seeing food or being reminded to eat. This sets the mind on food and people convince themselves they are hungry and it‘s time to eat, Skelton said. “This is why we can often overeat d

The ever-widening scandal that took down David Petraeus as the head of the CIA started simply enough when Paula Broadwell, with whom he was having an affair, clicked the “send” button on her email program.The resulting catastrophic upheaval, or tempest in a teapot (depending on how you see it, which is not relevant to the discussion here), has had many Americans re-examining something they may have taken for granted: their use of email and just how secure and private their messages are -- or are

A volcano in the center of New Zealand‘s North Island is showing signs of a possible imminent eruption, vulcanologists in the country are warning.The Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences said the temperature beneath Ruapehu’s Crater Lake was 1,400 degrees Fahrenheit but the lake itself was only 68 degrees F., suggesting a volcanic vent may be partly blocked.A resulting pressure build-up beneath the Crater Lake would mean a heightened likelihood of eruptions in the near future, experts sa

U.S. President Barack Obama urged Myanmar Monday to step up its reform drive on a historic visit during which he was cheered by huge crowds and welcomed by Aung San Suu Kyi at the home where she was locked up for years.The trip, the first to Myanmar by a serving U.S. president, came as the regime freed dozens more political prisoners to burnish its reform credentials. In once unthinkable scenes, Obama's motorcade passed tens of thousands of flag-waving supporters -- some chanting "America" -- li

TOKYO (AFP) ― Two of Japan’s most outspoken and headstrong politicians announced Saturday they would join forces to fight next month’s election, media reported.Acerbic former Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara and the feisty mayor of Osaka, Toru Hashimoto, agreed to combine their parties in a bid to forge a “third force” at polls on Dec. 16.Ishihara, 80, will helm the coupling of his own Party of the Sun and the Japan Restoration Party, with Hashimoto serving as number two, Kyodo News reported fro

ASSIUT, Egypt (AP) ― A speeding train that crashed into a bus carrying Egyptian children to their kindergarten on Saturday killed 51 and prompted a wave of anger against a government under mounting pressure to rectify the former regime’s legacy of neglect. The crash, which killed children between four and six years old and three adults, led to local protests and accusations from outraged Egyptians that President Mohammed Morsi is failing to deliver on the demands of last year’s uprising for basi