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Holiday shoppers picking cash over credit, according to survey...

I mean, who's that great that they've started doing holiday shopping already??? I'd like to know..

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Britons are 'condemning' children

A recent YouGov poll reports that Britons hold alarmingly vitriolic attitudes towards young people today. More than half of... more

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Google tracks flu

Google's philanthropic arm Google.org has released a new site that tracks the incidence of flu in the US based on terms used... more

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New map reveals Britain's 20 worst postcodes for burglaries

A new crime map has been released to show families which areas have the highest rate of burglaries. It names Bristol and... more

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Rich and poor gap 'narrows' in UK

The gap between rich and poor in the UK has decreased since 2000, an international survey has concluded. The Organisation for... more

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Many women unaware of links between drinking and breast cancer

A survey says women do not know that drinking too much leads to an increased chance of breast cancer. Fewer than one in five... more

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Top 25 reasons to cheat on your partner

If you're in a loving, monogamous relationship where trust is the top priority, congratulations - your relationship is a... more

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War on terror failed, says the world

Most people across the world believe the US-led "war on terror" has failed to weaken Al-Qaeda and many think the group has actually grown stronger, a BBC World Service poll revealed.

Seven years after the United States launched its campaign following the September 11 attacks, even Americans appear unsure about its success.

On average only 22 per cent of people polled across 23 countries thought US action had weakened Osama bin Laden's network, while 29 per cent thought it had no effect and 30 per cent believed it had actually made Al-Qaeda stronger.

Just 34 per cent of Americans questioned believed Al-Qaeda had been weakened, while 26 per cent thought the 'war on terror' had no effect, and 33 per cent said they thought the campaign had made the group stronger.

"Despite its overwhelming military power, America's war against Al-Qaeda is widely seen as having achieved nothing better than a stalemate and many believe that it has even strengthened Al-Qaeda," said Steven Kull, director of the US-based Program on International Policy and Attitudes.

The survey of 24,000 people, carried out between July 8 and September 12, also revealed that the predominant view in 15 nations polled is that neither the United States nor Al-Qaeda is winning the conflict.

On average just ten per cent of respondents thought Al Qaeda was winning, 22 per cent thought the United States was winning and 47 per cent said neither.

Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria and Turkey were most positive about the impact of the 'war on terror' and US success, while one fifth of Pakistanis questioned believed Al-Qaeda was winning - although 24 per cent believed neither was.

A majority of those polled had a negative opinion of Al-Qaeda, except in two countries seen as on the frontline of the conflict - Egypt and Pakistan. One fifth of Egyptians said they had a favourable view of Al-Qaeda, 40 per cent were neutral and 35 per cent had a negative view. In Pakistan, 19 per cent were positive, 22 per cent were neutral and 19 per cent were negative.

"The fact that so many people in Egypt and Pakistan have mixed or even positive views of Al-Qaeda is yet another indicator that the US war on terror is not winning hearts and minds," said Doug Miller, chairman of international polling firm GlobeScan. Most people across the world believe the US-led "war on terror" has failed to weaken Al-Qaeda and many think the group... more

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1 month ago

Rich nations' greenhouse gases fell in 2006: survey

OSLO (Reuters) - Rich nations' greenhouse gas emissions dipped for the first time in five years in 2006, easing 0.1 percent... more

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1 month ago

The coolest British accents?

The Birmingham accent has been voted the least cool accent in Britain while The Queen's English carried the most cachet,... more

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1 month ago

Sports fanatics are better lovers when their team is winning

Men who love sports and have favorite teams perform better under the sheets when their team is winning, revealed a poll. The... more

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1 month ago

Student Survey Shows Students Study?

This year's National Student Survey is out and it appears students have swapped hard drink for hard study. Maybe it's... more

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2 months ago

How Video Games Effect Social Ties

A new national survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project illustrates just how ingrained games have become in youth... more

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2 months ago

Would you ask a friend to be the father of your child?

A new survey has revealed that more than half of women would think about asking a friend to have children with them if the right... more

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2 months ago

Polls show Livni winning race to replace Olmert as Israel PM

Polls show Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni winning next week's party primary and positioning herself to become Israel's first female prime minister since Golda Meir.

A survey in Israel's Yediot Ahronot daily on Friday showed Livni with a 15 per cent lead over her main rival, Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz, in the ruling Kadima Party's Sept. 17 primary.

The poll included 850 Kadima members and had a margin of error of 4.5 points.

Kadima is choosing a new leader to replace Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who is stepping down because of a series of corruption investigations. Elected in 2006, Olmert was supposed to serve until 2010.

A poll in the Maariv daily gave Livni an 18.8 per cent lead over Mofaz, a former military chief of staff and defense minister. The poll included 400 Kadima members and the margin of error was 4.9 points.

In the race, Mofaz has played up his defense credentials and cultivated a tough image. Livni owes her popularity mainly to her reputation for honesty, which resonates with Israelis fed up with a string of corruption charges against public figures.

A fifty-year-old former lawyer who served a brief stint in the Mossad spy agency, Livni has served in a number of Cabinet posts and is currently Israel's lead negotiator in peace talks with the Palestinians.

She spent much of her career as a member of the hawkish Likud Party, and she is the daughter of a famous fighter of the early militant Zionist group Irgun.

However, she has carved a niche for herself as a leading moderate since leaving Likud along with former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon when he set up the centrist Kadima Party in 2005.

Whoever wins next week's primary would have to cobble together a new coalition in order to become prime minister. If not, the country will hold national elections and Olmert will remain as a caretaker leader in the meantime.

Polls show that if elections were held now the winner would be Benjamin Netanyahu and his hardline Likud Party. That would cast doubt on the continuation of the peace talks Olmert and Livni have been holding with the Palestinians.

If she does become prime minister, Livni would become only the second woman to lead Israel. The first was Meir, a member of Israel's founding generation who governed from 1969 to 1974. Polls show Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni winning next week's party primary and positioning herself to become Israel's... more

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2 months ago

More and more Scots drink themselves into brain damage

More and more Scots are literally drinking themselves senseless, according to new figures: a total of 540 Scots were discharged... more

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2 months ago

Cheesiest chat-up lines ever?

A new survey of more than 400 people in the UK has revealed the cheesiest chat-up lines. Participants were also asked to give the... more

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3 months ago

Survey: Obama Poodle Best Dog For Presidential Hopeful

The American public selected the Poodle as its choice for his family's dog. Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier as the top dog for... more

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3 months ago

Against all the odds, the world is becoming a happier place

Over the past 25 years, economic growth in developing countries has translated into big increases in happiness, but people in... more

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3 months ago

Survey: Women Leaders Smarter, More Honest

In a finding that will be bittersweet for Hillary Clinton supporters, a new Pew survey finds that when it comes to honesty, intelligence and a handful of other key traits valued in leaders, the public rates women as superior to men.

Still, a mere 6 percent say that, overall, women make better political leaders than men. The vast majority of respondents, 69 percent, ranked men and women as equally good leaders. That's according to a nationwide Pew Research Center Social and Demographic Trends survey of 2,250 American adults conducted from June 16 to July 16, 2008.

In an era apparently reaping the benefits of Title IX (a federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in educational institutions), and exulted as one in which women can nearly as easily climb to once male-only rungs of corporate and academic ladders, relatively few women actually have journeyed to the highest levels of political or corporate leadership, according to Pew analysts. (Women are just 2 percent of the CEOs of the nation's Fortune 500 companies.)

Survey respondents cited gender discrimination, resistance to change, and a self-serving "old boys club" as reasons for the relative scarcity of women at the top.

"What the public does not say is that women inherently lack what it takes to be leaders," Pew analysts stated. "To the contrary, on seven of eight leadership traits measured in this survey, the public rates women either better than or equal to men."

For example, the most important leadership trait according to the respondents is honesty. And half of all adults surveyed said women are more honest than men, while just one-in-five indicated men are more honest.

Women also ranked higher than men on leadership qualities such as decisiveness, compassion, outgoing nature and creativeness.

On the policy front, more than 50 percent of respondents said women are better than men at dealing with social issues such as health care and education, while 42 percent said men have an edge over women in the way they deal with crime and public safety. More than 50 percent said men are better than women at dealing with defense and national security issues. In a finding that will be bittersweet for Hillary Clinton supporters, a new Pew survey finds that when it comes to honesty,... more