Apple's iOS 4.2 with AirPlay and AirPrint

Apple has announced that iOS 4.2 is now available as a free download for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. While iPhone and iPod touch users have enjoyed many of the features found in the latest version in iOS 4.0 and 4.1, it brings multitasking, fast app switching, folders, Game Center and a unified mail inbox to the iPad for the first time. The update also adds AirPrint and AirPlay to all compatible devices.

Ssolar Charging Clothes for Your Gadgets

Portable solar chargers like the U-Powered solar charger from Kiwi Choice are a handy way to keep mobile devices like smartphones, cameras and media players topped up with electricity while on the go. But if you’re looking for a more convenient way to carry a solar charger with you then the GO Solar Power Collection line of clothing from Silvr Lining could prove a good fit.

Snacks Satisfy Immediate Hunger Without Wrecking Your Diet

Do you ignore those mid-mornings and -afternoon hunger pangs for fear that eating will add unnecessary calories to your diet? Do you then find an extra helping at your next meal impossible to resist? Research shows that strategically snacking on small portions of healthy foods between meals can keep your calorie consumption under control and stop the urge to overeat.

Berlusconi buys 37 rings for female MPs

FOR some five gold rings are enough for Christmas but the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, requires 37 - one for each of his female MPs.
The 74-year-old ordered the specially made £1,193 rings from a designer jeweller and they were given to female politicians as part of his annual Christmas gift.
In all 24 women MPs from the lower house and 13 senators from the upper house were given the Italian “tricolour” rings which were made of three bands of white, yellow and pink gold studded with tiny diamonds.

Drinking tea curbs weight gain

DRINKING tea may prevent weight gain caused by a junk food diet. Researchers found regular consumption of tea also suppressed damaging changes in the blood linked to fatty foods that can lead to type 2 diabetes.
They said the research on mice could signal another set of health benefits from tea drinking if they are confirmed in trials on humans.
In the study some mice were given a high fat diet and others a normal diet.

Scientists grow world’s first hair follicles using stem cells

IT is an embarrassing condition that has plagued middle-aged men for centuries but now scientists think they are close to creating a cure for baldness following a stem cell breakthrough.
Scientists at the Berlin Technical University in Germany, have grown the world’s first artificial hair follicles from stem cells. The follicles were created from animal cells and were somewhat thinner than normal, but the team were optimistic they could grow human hairs from stem cells within a year.

How Bollywood fell in love with Katrina Kaif - Report

A British actor brought up in London is set to become the most sought after superstar in the Bollywood film industry after her role in a blockbuster movie that opens in cinemas throughout the world this week.
Katrina Kaif, daughter of a British charity worker and a Kashmiri father, watched her first Indian film on television in her home in Finchley when she was a teenager. Now her film, Tees Maar Khan, is predicted to be one of the biggest Bollywood hits of the year. The 26-year-old will fly back to London for the UK premiere on Wednesday.