2010 College Football Predictions: The First Loss For Each Top 25 Team

One loss.  That is all it can take for a team to see its national championship aspirations destroyed in one day afternoon of work.  The college football season is mind field where teams suffer the pitfall of one loss and reap all the benefits of remaining undefeated. That will be no different in 2010.  Defending national champion Alabama returns a very strong squad gunning for its second ...

Afghan women fear loss of modest gains

MAHMUD-E RAQI, Afghanistan Women's precarious rights in Afghanistan have begun seeping away. Girls' schools are closing; working women are threatened; advocates are attacked; and terrified families are increasingly confining their daughters to home.

The most profitable rookie sports debuts

It's been said that hope springs eternal and nowhere does that ring truer than in the world of professional...

US grizzly bear euthanized for killing camper

A grizzly bear that killed a man and injured two other people at a campground in Montana has been euthanized and her three yearling cubs will be sent to a zoo, officials in the northwestern US state said.

Minoxidil in hair growth items

THE Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has detected an undeclared western medicinal ingredient in two Beijing 101 Hair Consultants products. Both hair growth formula D-2653-B and hair growth tonic E-0583-D were found to contain minoxidil during HSA's regular product quality sampling programme.