In the news

I was reading last Thursday's (29 Apr) papers and here are some of the articles ...

An 83 year old yogi has suvived with no food or water in 70 years.  He said that since leaving his family at the age of seven to wander through jungles in western India, he's had no desire to eat, drink or go to the toilet.  His brain also resembled that of a 25 year old person.  He will be undergoing a series of tests in the hope ofreplicating his survival abilities to benefit mankind.

Malaysia has launched a pink women-only train carriages to prevent sexual harassment and to give Muslim women the option of travelling separately from men.

An Ohio woman who thought she had found a rat in her can of pasta instead turned out to be a really big, thick, hairy chunk of mould.

Brazil's Minister of Health has suggested his country's citizens have sex five times a week as a solution to chronic diseases such as diabetes.

Scientists have found that eating chillies can make you lose weight by speeding up your metabolism and burninng fat.  Researchers claim that heat generated by the spicy food oxidises layers of fat as well as increasing metabolism.