30 Simple Health Tips to Try Each Day of March

Celebrate National Nutrition Month by making small changes that will lead to big improvements.  Why wait until dinner to get your daily allotment of vegetables? Try adding a serving to breakfast instead. Unlike "National Pancake Month" or "National Whipped Cream...

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Farhad and Mike’s Week in Tech: The Unstoppable Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Facebook, announced a new stock structure for the company this week. Each Saturday, Farhad Manjoo and Mike Isaac, technology reporters at The New York Times, review the week’s news, offering analysis and maybe a joke or two about...

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Portable Device Can Test If Your Food Is Gluten-Free

This portable gluten tester from 6SensorLabs can detect if a food has 20 parts per million or more of gluten. For people with gluten allergies or celiac disease, the idea of eating out in restaurants can be terrifying. It typically involves scrutinizing menus and food labels,...

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Worsening depression 'may predict dementia risk'

A link between depression and dementia has been known for some time Symptoms of depression that steadily increase over time in older age could indicate early signs of dementia, scientists have said. Other patterns of symptoms, such as chronic depression, appear not to...

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Iraqi Shia protesters storm Baghdad parliament

Protesters have entered the Iraqi parliament building Hundreds of Shia Muslim activists have stormed Iraq's parliament in protest against ongoing deadlock in approving a new cabinet. Supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr broke through barricades of the protected Green...

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Iran elections: Hardliners lose parliament to Rouhani allies

Iranians went to the polls again on Friday Run-off elections have given moderates and reformists a working majority in the Iranian parliament for the first time in more than a decade. Supporters of President Hassan Rouhani won 42% of the total seats - short of an outright...

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Elephant summit: Kenya sets fire to huge ivory stockpile

This fire will keep burning for a number of days, reports Anne Soy in Nairobi Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has set fire to a huge stockpile of ivory in an effort to show his country's commitment to saving Africa's elephants. More than 100 tonnes of ivory was stacked...

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