A belief that Jesus survived the crucifixion and spent his remaining years in Kashmir has led to a run-down shrine in Srinagar making it firmly onto the must-visit-in India tourist trail. more here.
ON the surface, it sounds like a nearly impossible task: assembling a rare brass-era car from scratch, using century-old parts that were tracked down one by one from all the dusty, rust-ridden corners of the collecting world. MORE HERE!
STARTING POINT Emily Anderson leaving New York City on her cross-country trip last year. More Photos »
With all due respect to the floats of our youth, ours is strictly for the 21-and-over crowd
by Lora Zarubin
Who doesn't have a childhood memory of root beer? Mine is vacationing in Napa Valley when I was a kid and always stopping at the local A&W in St. Helena for a hamburger and a frosty mug. Unlike most youngsters, I was not a fan of soda pop in general, but even then I was taken with root beer's complexity of flavors, which were more unusual and provocative than any other soft drink. MORE HERE.
Beer is not a drink of choice for retired nurse Frankie Rodriguez, who worked in a jail detox unit and "saw what it can do to some people."
But the Land Park resident joined about four dozen people who turned out Saturday for a tour of pioneer brewers' burial sites at the Sacramento Historic City Cemetery. The program, an inaugural event of Sacramento Beer Week, celebrated the heritage of a thriving local industry founded by mostly German immigrants during the Gold Rush. MORE HERE!
What's wrong with your vagina? If you answered "nothing," you're probably wrong. According to the beauty-industrial complex, it's ugly, and it smells bad. But don't worry-- there's nothing that money can't fix. More here.
By Jenny Hope
Last updated at 9:58 AM on 22nd January 2010
Modern children' s lifestyles are putting them at risk of developing rickets, doctors have warned.
The bone disease, which was the scourge of Victorian Britain, is making a comeback because poor diets and the decline in outdoor play have led to a vitamin D deficiency.
Factors such as more time spent inside playing on computers have reduced the amount of outdoor activity children get compared with previous generations. More here.
Young victims: Rickets was the scourge of Victorian Britain
After rain come mushrooms. Now is the season to explore one of the most mysterious and all too transient organisms that occur in dry gardens. More here.
Ancestors: Farmers from Iraq and Syria in 8000 BC built up communities in Britain
The invention of farming led to the first towns and paved the way for the dawn of civilisation.
The Leicester University study looked at a common genetic mutation on the Y chromosome, the DNA that is passed down from fathers to sons. More here.
By David Derbyshire
Last updated at 10:13 AM on 21st January 2010
Discovered: The remains of Alfred the Great's granddaughter, Eadgyth - a Saxon Queen and one of the oldest members of the English royal family have been unearthed in a tomb in Germany - More here.
One of the most callous reactions to the Haiti disaster thus far has come from televangelist Pat Robertson, who told viewers of his Christian Broadcasting Network on Wednesday morning that he knew the real reason for the quake: The country's long-standing pact with Satan. More Here.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. — Human ancestors that left Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago to see the rest of the world were no landlubbers. Stone hand axes unearthed on the Mediterranean island of Crete indicate that an ancient Homo species — perhaps Homo erectus — had used rafts or other seagoing vessels to cross from northern Africa to Europe via at least some of the larger islands in between, says archaeologist Thomas Strasser of Providence College in Rhode Island.
The authorities set up an anti-human sacrifice task force in 2009, to try to combat the rise in the number of ritual child killings being performed by witch doctors.
Newsnight's Tim Whewell travelled to Uganda, where he met a former witch doctor now working to convert other witch doctors from their practices.
His report contains accounts that viewers may find disturbing.
Broadcast on Thursday 7 January 2010
By Amie Newman, Managing Editor
January 6, 2010 - 12:26pm
