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Your soap could be responsible for your obesity

NEW YORK: Beware of "chemical calories" which are found in containers and bottles. These are found to lurking in everyday beauty products such as shampoo, body lotions and soap as well. 

Daily Mail has learnt from doctors at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York that phthalates, chemical ingredients in 70 per cent of cosmetics as well as many household cleaning products, have been shown to throw the body's natural weight control system, a delicate balance of hormones, off kilter after absorption through skin.

Doctors also suggest that exposure to phthalates through daily use may be linked to childhood obesity and weight problems in adults.

'Military MIstress' married 14 armymen

ALABAMA: A woman made a career out of marrying armymen. She has been dubbed 'Military Mistress' for allegedly marrying at least 14 men and stealing thousands from them. The woman who was sentenced to jail claims that she was just unlucky in love.

Bobbi Ann Finley has been accused of stalking, conning and stealing up to 100,000 dollars each from American soldiers for almost two decades, said Daily Mail.

Finley, who had nine children with as many men, admitted that she might have destroyed lives, but claims she is a victim who has had a hard upbringing.

"I wasn't running a con. I wanted protection, the protection that I should have had growing up... I married these guys I couldn't love," the Daily Mail quoted her as telling ABC News.

"I was looking for love. I was looking for understanding, I was looking for someone to say, 'You know, it is going to be OK'.

"In many of the cases, you look and you started out and you get married and you're thinking, 'Oh, I'm going to live happily ever after.' And then you realise as soon it's done... it was a mistake," she said.

For nearly 20 years, Finley allegedly preyed on military bases where she lied to servicemen claiming to be a wealthy heiress, the daughter of a general or an injured veteran about to get a large pay-out.

Woman fired for refusing to colour gray hair

US: A 52-year-old woman claimed she was fired from her job over her refusal to colour her silver strands.

Sandra Rawline, who was an escrow officer and branch manager at Capital Title of Texas, told the Guardian that in August 2009 her boss approached her and told her to explore a more "upscale image" to go with her real estate firm's move to a new headquarters in Galleria, Texas.

When she refused, she was fired within a week and replaced by a woman 10 years her junior, reported the paper.

The lady has sued the firm for discrimination. Capital Title, which acts as a clearing house for property deals, however dismissed her allegations of age and hair discrimination as "completely baseless and preposterous", the paper said.

"I''d hire a 150-year-old individual if they were worthy," the company''s chief executive, Bill Shaddock, was quoted as saying by the paper.

Girl, 11, sets up 'I hate my teacher' Facebook group

An 11-year-old student's parents learnt that their daughter had set up a Facebook group to criticise her headmistress when police officials visited them.

The page, Daily Mail learnt, was apparently set up by Leah, in protest at what she believed was headmistress' failure to deal with a five-year-old boy who had threatened her younger sister, Libby, six.

The group, called Hate Mrs Frost, attracted 16 members before it was taken down by her parents, the paper reported.

The parents admit Leah was wrong to set up the page, but said it would never have been posted if the school had properly dealt with the boy who they claim threatened to stab Libby.

US ran fake vaccine project in hunt for bin Laden

LONDON: US intelligence launched a fake vaccination drive in the Pakistan town where it believed Osama bin Laden was hiding in an effort to gather DNA from members of his family, the Guardian reported on Tuesday.

CIA officials recruited a senior local doctor to organise the campaign after it tracked down a bin Laden courier to what turned out to be the al-Qaida fugitive's compound in the town of Abbottabad, the British newspaper said.

Before launching the high-risk operation against bin Laden, US officials wanted to test DNA samples from people living at the compound with a sample that they had from his sister.

Doctor Shakil Afridi, who has since been arrested by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, launched the programme in Abbottabad's poorest area to make it appear more credible.

The project then moved swiftly to the Bilal Town suburb, where bin Laden was residing.

"The whole thing was totally irregular," a Pakistani official told the newspaper. "Bilal Town is a well-to-do area. Why would you choose that place to give free vaccines?"

A nurse managed to gain access to the compound but Pakistani sources claim she failed to obtain any DNA samples, the Guardian reported.

Bin Laden was killed on May 2 in a raid that soured US-Pakistan relations.

The Pakistani military on Monday insisted it was capable of fighting Islamic militants without US assistance, hitting back after Washington said it would suspend $800 million worth of security aid.
 

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