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Penis lengths charted to answer the 'am I normal?' question
Doctors searched through 17 published studies studies on more than 15,000 men who had their penis size measured by a health professional and graphed the averages in Tuesday's issue of BJU International, formerly the British Journal of Urology. The graphs will help doctors reassure the large majority of men that their penis size is in the normal range, said study author Dr. David Veale, of King's College London. The researchers say measuring penis size is important in assessing men who complain of a small penis and to investigate the relationship between condom failure and penile dimensions. Study volunteers may also have been more confident in their penis size than the general male population.
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Brent crude up $1 to over $60.50 as global markets firm
By Henning Gloystein SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Brent crude oil prices rose more than a dollar to above $60.50 a barrel on Tuesday, tracking firmer Asian markets, but analysts warned the market remained oversupplied. Most Asian stock markets edged up on Tuesday, bolstered by a record day on Wall Street, while a resurgent yen helped knock the U.S. dollar index off an 11-year high, making commodities priced in the greenback slightly cheaper for holders of other currencies. A drop in U.S. rig counts is also boosting oil prices, analysts said. "Brent crude prices (are) attempting to rally on rapid week-on-week reduction in U.S. ... rig count," Morgan Stanley said on in a note on Tuesday.
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Demi Lovato Doesn't Have a Thigh Gap, But Still Loves Her Body: See Her Motivational Bikini Pic
Demi Lovato shared several photos of her body, saying she doesn't have to have a thigh gap to be beautiful -- see the bikini shots!
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Police ID Southern California teacher found dead in classroom as well-liked photo instructor
A Southern California teacher who committed suicide by hanging herself in her classroom was a well-liked 31-year-old photography instructor, authorities said Monday. Students arriving at El Dorado High School found Jillian Jacobson's classroom door locked, Placentia police Lt. Eric Point said. Two school staff members got Jacobson down and called 911, Point said. Students were dismissed for the day at 11 a.m. and crisis counsellors were made available on campus, said Assistant Superintendent Kevin Lee, of the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School Districts.
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Mom who blogged about son's constant health woes is convicted of his salt-poisoning death
A jury in the New York suburbs found Lacey Spears, of Scottsville, Kentucky, guilty of second-degree murder in the death last year of 5-year-old Garnett-Paul Spears. The defence portrayed Spears as a caring mother and her son as sickly, but the prosecution argued Spears reveled in the attention his illness brought her. Video showed Spears twice taking him into a hospital bathroom with a connector tube and him suffering afterward. "The motive is bizarre, the motive is scary, but it exists," Assistant District Attorney Patricia Murphy said in closing arguments Thursday.
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Farewell message on Frosted Flakes also a fitting epitaph for branch plants
High school teacher Stephane Gaudette got a surprise when he opened a box of Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes on Monday morning. The wax paper package inside contained this message:
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Ronda Rousey's latest movie project revealed amid criticism from rival
If fans were wondering what’s next for UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey after her UFC 184 win, they needn’t wonder any longer.
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Ryan Phillippe Says He Suffers From Depression, Is "Innately" Sad
Ryan Phillippe admitted to Elle.com that he suffers from depression -- read his honest quotes about being an "innately sad person" here
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Former rap mogul taken to hospital after court hearing, tells judge he's going blind
Knight told Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James Brandlin that he had fired attorneys handling his murder case and was receiving inadequate medical treatment while in custody. The Death Row Records co-founder said he was blind in one eye and had only about 15 per cent vision in his other eye during a brief court appearance on Monday. Brandlin transferred Knight's case to another judge, and he was taken for medical care before his case could be called in Judge Ronald Coen's courtroom. Coen said before calling the case that Knight had been taken to a hospital, but he did not elaborate.
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Calgary real estate market seeing drop in house sales, increase in inventory
Calgary real estate is continuing on a trend the city has not seen in years: a dramatic drop in house sales. The drop in sales has led to a growing inventory in Calgary's housing market.
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About 1,200 B.C. health-care workers to be laid off in coming months: union
The union representing health-care workers in British Columbia says hundreds of its members in the Vancouver area will be getting pink slips in the coming months. The Health Employees' Union says the Ahmon Group has informed more than 240 care aides, nurses, cleaners and dietary workers that it will contract out services at a facility in Surrey, B.C., starting June 1. The union also says a U.S.-company known as Aramark has lost its contract with Vancouver Coastal Health hospitals and extended care facilities and will lay off 935 staff between Aug. 9 and Sept. 22.
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Warren Buffett criticizes Keystone XL delay, says U.S. 'thumbing nose' at Canada
The Keystone XL pipeline got an emphatic endorsement Monday from a powerful backer of President Barack Obama who questioned the handling of the file. To billionaire investor Warren Buffett, the delay is a thumbing of the nose at Canada. "I would have passed Keystone," Buffett said in an interview with CNBC. "I think that we have an enormous interest in working with Canada, as they have in working with us.
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Child 'M' beating, starvation death leaves judge asking why
A judge halted the sentencing hearing Monday of a mother who beat and starved her daughter to death to ask the Crown prosecutor why it happened. Justice Eric Macklin stopped lawyer Shelley Bykewich's sentencing arguments to ask what led to the dysfunctional relationship between the mother and her daughters, when there was no evidence the woman had any psychological problems.
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Kelly Clarkson "I Don't Care" If My Daughter River Is Gay: "I Just Hope She Finds Love"
Kelly Clarkson talked about her gay fan base and how she would react if her daughter River came out to her -- see what she had to say!
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Artist: Former President Bill Clinton's museum portrait has nod to Lewinsky's blue dress
A Philadelphia artist has disclosed that his museum portrait of former President Bill Clinton contains a shadow reference to Monica Lewinsky's infamous blue dress. Nelson Shanks told the Philadelphia Daily News that a shadow beside Clinton is a literal reference to the dress and a symbolic nod to the shadow the affair cast on his presidency. "If you look at the left-hand side of it there's a mantle in the Oval Office and I put a shadow coming into the painting," Shanks told the newspaper. "They want it removed from the National Portrait Gallery.
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2015 NHL trade deadline: Top 10 teams with all the right moves
2015 NHL trade deadline: Yahoo NHL writer Nick Cotsonika ranks the top 10 teams that helped themselves the most in the days, hours and minutes before the trade deadline.
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Adelaide men perform emergency C-section on dead wombat, save baby
Dmrenzo Kotze, 21, and Chris Dimasi, 20, spotted a dead wombat on a dirt road. When they went to move the roadkill out of the way, they noticed tiny movements inside the marsupial. “We could kind of see something moving inside,” Kotze told The Advertiser. “We thought we could see what we could do because (we thought) it could be a baby.”
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How Chris Hadfield's flight suit landed in thrift store by mistake
Chris Hadfield has. Now the astronaut's son, Evan Hadfield, has answered the vexing question about how his father's flight suit ended up in a Toronto thrift store. For 26 years, Chris Hadfield, a Sarnia, Ont., native, was living outside of Canada — in Russia and the U.S. — building a career operating the Canadarm in orbit, becoming the first Canadian to walk in space and rising to fame aboard the International Space Station.
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Michael Jordan still makes $100 million a year off his sneaker deal
Michael Jordan is worth $1 billion, according...
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CBS and 'Judge Judy' extend her contract for 3 years, to keep court in session into 2020
Daytime television's most popular personality, "Judge Judy" Sheindlin, has extended her contract for three years and plans to keep her court in session into 2020. CBS Television Distribution didn't discuss terms of the deal Monday. Sheindlin is 72. "Judge Judy" is now in its 19th season, and has been the top daytime TV show for the past five years.
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