New research has confirmed what those of us who keep emergency cookies in the freezer already know. Dark chocolate really does reduce stress, according to two new studies from Loma Linda University in California. The findings were presented this week at the Experimental Biology 2018 annual meeting in San Diego, and show that eating dark…
China has banned tourists from Mount Everest base camp ‘for an indefinite period’ amid a drive to clean up the peak. The decision will drastically reduce visitor numbers as only 300 people with climbing passes will be allowed past a monastery just below the 5,200m camp. China’s base camp, which is located in Tibet, attracts fewer…
TORONTO — The chief economist of Toronto-Dominion Bank says the gender diversity of Canada’s corporate boardrooms lags that of the U.S., with 24 per cent aggregate female diversity compared with 25 per cent south of the border. Beata Caranci says in a new report that the country’s resource sector companies and smaller firms need to…
At face value, Donald Trump did the only thing possible: he couldn’t get what he wanted from the North Korea talks, so he walked away. The sticking point is sanctions. America says it will lift sanctions on Kim Jong-un’s regime if Kim dismantles his nuclear weapons programme first. Kim says he will only begin dismantlement…
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Square Enix’s remastered version of Final Fantasy 9 is now available for Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and on PC via the Windows 10 PC store. Final Fantasy 7 also now has a Switch release date, of 26th March. There’s a lot of love for FF9 and its classic fantasy style. It’s an homage of sorts…
OTTAWA — For the first time in a decade Ontario will not receive an equalization transfer from Ottawa, prompting the province’s finance minister to join calls for the federal government to review how the program is set up. Canada’s finance ministers are in Ottawa for the second of their two yearly meetings, which started with…
2013-14 NFCA NCAA Division IIIAll-Academic Teams School Name GPA Emerson College 3.644 Iowa Wesleyan College 3.571 Illinois Wesleyan University 3.571 Pomona-Pitzer Colleges 3.563 Washington University (Mo.) 3.55 Middlebury College 3.54 Fontbonne University 3.52 Wesleyan University 3.518 Newbury College 3.513 University of Texas at Tyler 3.51 Messiah College 3.502 Otterbein University 3.497 St. Catherine University…
I’m a feminist who, at times, hates on her body (think: cellulite, a stomach that sticks out no matter what YouTube core strengtheners I do, and ingrown hairs that are, as luck would have it, the result of waxing and shaving to appear more, um, feminine and flawless). And guess what? Many of my fellow…
Yemen may finally be “on the path to peace” after nearly five years of war if the two sides follow through on agreements reached at UN-brokered talks last year, Jeremy Hunt has said. Speaking at the start of a Middle East summit in Poland, the Foreign Secretary offered an upbeat assessment of the prospect of…