Taller women are prone to cancer

Their risk of developing some of the most common forms is up to a third greater. Scientists believe being tall may increase the levels of certain hormones known to trigger tumours.

A study carried out at Oxford University found the risk of cancer increased by around 16 per cent with every four inches of height.

The scientists studied the link between height and ten of the most common forms of cancer including breast, bowel, kidney, womb, ovarian and leukaemia by looking at the medical records of one million British women.

They found those who were 5ft 9in tall were more than 33 per cent more likely to get cancer than those who were just 5ft. They believe one reason for the link is that tall girls tend to start puberty earlier and this is when their bodies begin producing large amounts of the hormone oestrogen, known to trigger the growth of tumours.

The scientists also point out taller people have more cells in their body so they have a higher chance that one will become cancerous. ”The fact the link between height and cancer risk seems to be common to many different types of cancer suggests there may be a basic common mechanism, perhaps acting early in peoples lives, when they are growing,” the Daily Mail quoted Jane Green, from the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford, as saying.

 ”Of course people cannot change their height. And being taller has been linked to a lower risk of other conditions, such as heart disease,” added Green.

Election or in-house Change Dangerous: Nawaz Sharif

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LAHORE, trendpk: PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif said the country is passing through a difficult phase and we all should take steps with wisdom.

Moreover, we are not supporting the present government but want that it should work for masses welfare during its tenure.

Nawaz said this the other day while talking to Daily Jang. He said everybody knows that government has performed poorly as people are facing inflation, power and gas loadsheddings and we are trying that the government performs better in its remaining tenure.

“We want to save the democratic system and when we follow traditions, we are accused of siding with the PPP, and media is also involved in it,” he added. Nawaz said in present time, elections or in-house change is a dangerous thing.

The government has been given 45 days deadline to implement PML-N’s 10-point agenda and we don’t follow the policy of buying time, he further added. Nawaz said he was not aware of US stance regarding the PML-N when he was put a question that it was not happy with him and his policies. He said we don’t want to come in power through the support of the US or army.

Sugar price still above Rs. 100 per kg in Faisalabad

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FAISALABAD: The price of sugar has yet not been reduced in Faisalabad and still it is being sold above Rs. 100 per kg in the shops and markets.

According to details, during last many days an artificial shortage of sugar has started in the markets of the city while local authorities’ made all sales points are usually closed within two hours after end of the daily supplied sugar.

The local people desperately circle daily, around the Utility Stores and the sales points, in a vain hope to get some sugar on the reduced rates.

The troubled and annoyed people of Faisalabad have demanded the government to take an immediate action for the removal of the artificial sugar shortage, created by the sugar hoarders, as they desperately need it to mix with the milk to feed their children. Trend Pk

Guru Nanak’s 542nd birth day being celebrated today

NEWDEHLI: The 542nd birth day or Prakash Utsav of the founder of the Sikh religion Guru Nanak Dev is being celebrated on Sunday in different parts of India and a part of Pakistan with devotion and religious fervour.

Guru Nanak Dev was born on this day in 1469 at Nankana Saheb, now in Pakistan. The devotees started visiting the tastefully illuminated Gurudwaras since early morning to listen to Shabd-Kirtan and religious discourses on the life and works of Guru Nanak Dev.

The President, the Vice President and the Prime Minister of India greeted the people on the occasion. In her message the President Mrs Pratibha Devisingh Patil called upon the people to put in practice Guru Nanak’s teachings of peace, harmony and compassion in their daily lives.

In a message, the Vice President Mohd. Hamid Ansari said that Guru Nanak Devji has been apostle of universal love,

Karzai wants US to cut back Afghan military operations

WASHINGTON: Afghan President Hamid Karzai wants the U.S. military to scale back the visibility and intensity of its operations in Afghanistan and end night raids that he said incited people to join the Taliban insurgency, The Washington Post reported on Saturday.

“The time has come to reduce military operations,” Karzai told the Post in an interview. “The time has come to reduce the presence of, you know, boots in Afghanistan to reduce the intrusiveness into the daily Afghan life.”

The Post said his comments put him at odds with U.S. General David Petraeus, who has made “capture-and-kill” missions a central part of counterinsurgency strategy.

In the past three months, such night raids of Afghan homes by U.S. Special Operations forces had killed or captured 368 insurgency leaders, the Post said.

Karzai was quoted as saying his comments were not meant

US support to India’s UNSC bid not at Pak expense: Crowley

WASHINGTON: US has briefed Pakistan on President Barack Obama’s decision to endorse India for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council and assured Islamabad that his support to the bid is not at its expense.

“We have briefed the government of Pakistan on the President’s announcement. I’m not aware that there was any particular concern expressed,” State Department spokesman P J Crowley said.

“This (Obama’s support) is a reflection of the growing importance of the region to the rest of the world, and Pakistan should not see this as something that comes at their expense. It does not,” he said at his daily press briefing.

“I think Pakistan understands what we told them, and beyond that, I’ll leave it to the government of Pakistan to describe its own reaction,” Crowley said on the statements from the Pakistan leadership expressing concern about US endorsement of

British press slams "brainless" student protestors

LONDON: British papers were Thursday mostly scornful of students who broke into Prime Minister David Cameron’s party headquarters during a turbulent protest against a threefold hike in tuition fees.

The activists who stormed 30 Millbank, home of the Conservative party, scored an own-goal by shifting debate from the coalition government’s plans to the limits of protest, according to the majority of the nation’s newspapers.

Around 50,000 demonstrators took to London’s streets on Wednesday with a small group breaching a surprised and undermanned police line to break into the six-storey tower block.

The Times ran with the headline “thuggish and disgraceful,” quoting Metropolitan Police chief Paul Stephenson, while the Sun splashed “brainless” across its front page, a jibe at the so-called “yobs” and unprepared police.

The right-leaning Daily Mail led with

100 designers who shaped fashion

NEW YORK: From Adolfo to Yohji Yamamoto, Women”s Wear Daily has recorded the A to Z of fashion over the last 100 years. There are the suffragettes, flappers, career women in pantsuits and, later, miniskirts.

Fashion is an industry that”s always on the hunt for the next big thing. Yet, in researching a new book about a century of style, “WWD 100 Years, 100 Designers,” executive editor Bridget Foley found some constants.

“So many designers, when they talk about their work talk about women first,” Foley says. “There”s an ongoing idea and a belief among the very best designers that you have to push forward, but also that you also always have to consider what women will wear.”

For all the declarations of trends, including hemlines, silhouettes and embellishments, Foley finds that most garments – be they skinny jeans or pencil skirts – are consistently available year after year, even when they”re not winning headlines.

And, she adds, however modern and urban we like to think black is, women have been wearing it – regularly – since the 1920s.

The power of buzz has been around even longer.

Some of the designers included in the book were chosen because they literally changed the shape of fashion: Paul Poiret, Claire McCardell and Christian Dior, among them. But someone such as Gabrielle Chanel (known, of course, as Coco) really created an entire culture around a brand.

A 1965 WWD quote about Chanel: “Chanel is more than a look – it”s an institution – it”s a belief and a way of life – which this clever and very crafty artiste has done. She knows that her ever hungry Fashion Barbies are women and girls who eat and drink and dance – and love.”

Winnowing down this list of most influential designers to 100 was harder than it sounds, especially balancing new talent like Jason Wu against Dior and Oscar de la Renta, Foley says.

“Is this all good fashion?” she wonders. “I’m not sure it’s all good fashion, but it”s all representative fashion, and much of it is really good.”

Others who made the cut: Giorgio Armani, Cristobal Balenciaga, Andre Courreges, Francisco Costa, Calvin Klein, Charles James, Norma Kamali, Laura and Kate Mulleavy of Rodarte, Donna Karan, Madeline Vionnet, and both Gianni and Donatella Versace.

Aussies ‘hapless, woeful’ against Sri Lanka: press

SYDNEY: Australian newspapers accused Ricky Ponting’s men of embarrassing, hapless and woeful play against Sri Lanka after the visitors scored their first-ever series success Down Under.

Just weeks out from the start of the keenly-awaited Ashes series against England and without a win in any format since July, the Australians lost the second of three one day matches against Sri Lanka on Friday night.

“Just embarrassing,” read the headline in Sydney’s Daily Telegraph in an article which described the Australians as “woeful”.

“Everything that could go wrong did go wrong in a comprehensive 29-run defeat,” it said in its coverage of the shortened, rain-marred game at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

“Australia’s bowlers were dismantled by Sri Lanka with frightening ease and now injured pace bowler Doug Bollinger is in doubt for a key Ashes warm-up as his

Aussies ‘hapless, woeful’ against Sri Lanka: press

SYDNEY: Australian newspapers accused Ricky Ponting’s men of embarrassing, hapless and woeful play against Sri Lanka after the visitors scored their first-ever series success Down Under.

Just weeks out from the start of the keenly-awaited Ashes series against England and without a win in any format since July, the Australians lost the second of three one day matches against Sri Lanka on Friday night.

“Just embarrassing,” read the headline in Sydney’s Daily Telegraph in an article which described the Australians as “woeful”.

“Everything that could go wrong did go wrong in a comprehensive 29-run defeat,” it said in its coverage of the shortened, rain-marred game at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

“Australia’s bowlers were dismantled by Sri Lanka with frightening ease and now injured pace bowler Doug Bollinger is in doubt for a key Ashes warm-up as his

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