Damon reveals to Elena that his younger brother is still consuming human blood and it eventually brings Elena closer to Damon. As Stefan struggles to control his hunger for human blood, Damon slips deeper into Elena’s life. The possible romance of Damon-Elena is explored in the next episode of “The Vampire Diaries” since the Salvatore brother who turns up to escort Elena is Damon. At the Founder’s Day Gala, Elena and Caroline compete for the title of “Miss Mystic Falls” against other girls from town, including Tina Fell (guest star Autumn Dial) and Amber Br ... Jump to full article >>

The fast-food industry has long been under fire for selling high-fat, high-calorie meals that have been linked to weight gain and diabetes, but the financial health of the industry continues to attract investors—including some of the leading insurance companies in the U.S., a new study reports. According to Harvard Medical School researchers, 11 large companies that offer life, disability, or health insurance owned about $1.9 billion in stock in the five largest fast-food companies as of June 2009. The fast-food companies included McDonald’s, Burger King, and Yum! Brands (the parent compa ... Jump to full article >>

To be truly effective, first lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign should target pregnant women, infants and pre-schoolers, U.S. researchers say. Janet Wojcicki of the University of California, San Francisco, and Dr. Melvin Heyman of the UCSF Children’s Hospital say the program targets school-age children, many of whom are already are overweight or obese, and therefore it is not a comprehensive obesity intervention. Obama says the program involves updating nutritional labeling, improving school lunch nutritional standards, increasing physical activity and im ... Jump to full article >>

Struggling Valladolid have appointed Spanish football’s Red Adair for what will now, inevitably, be a wild fight for survival. Javier Clemente is nails. Real Valladolid’s new coach, known as the ‘Blonde of Barrakaldo’, is the foul-mouthed, feisty chain-smoking football manager who knows no fear, laughs in the face of danger, and thinks nothing of checking himself out of hospital against doctors’ advice and driving from Bilbao to Belgrade with four broken ribs, a fractured collarbone and a punctured lung. The man who could start a fight in an empty house but would ... Jump to full article >>

The second largest cigarette-maker in the world, British American Tobacco, held a forecast conference last week, where its chairman, Richard Burrows, predicted that the worldwide cigarette consumption will be stable, approximately at 6 trillion sticks annually, with 30 percent of them consumed by Chinese smokers. The tobacco giant, which sells such popular brands as Pall Mall, Lucky Strike, Rothmans, Viceroy, Dunhill and Kent, intends to assure its stable position to satisfy the requirements of cigarette-lovers, no matter if they are opting for low-end products during the recession, or premiu ... Jump to full article >>

The lead actress was accompanied by her husband Marc Anthony at the April 14 event, while her co-star Alex O’Loughlin was not pictured hitting the red carpet. Jennifer Lopez has made an early promotional effort for her upcoming “The Back-Up Plan”. On Wednesday, April 14 or nine days prior to its U.S. release date, the singer/actress appeared at the premiere of the movie which took place at Regal South Beach in Miami, Florida. Coming hand-in-hand with J-Lo was her musician husband Marc Anthony. The 40-year-old beauty wore an animal-skin printed dress and let loose her wavy ha ... Jump to full article >>

The link between depression and smoking, long observed by health-care experts, is real and strong, a new government report shows. People aged 20 and older with depression are twice as likely as others to be cigarette smokers, the researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found. And as the severity of depression increased, so did the number of smokers. The magnitude of the link was surprising, said researcher Laura Pratt, an epidemiologist at the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, which published the findings April 14. “The relationship between depressio ... Jump to full article >>

It was a memorable evening. The occasion: the first ever of its kind – the inaugural gathering of what is going to be known as the Islamabad Cigar Club. The founder being an extremely pleasing person called Dominique Simon, Head of the Economic Department at the French Embassy in Islamabad. A get-together of about 35 representatives of Islamabad’s civil and business communities — friends of course – at his residence on a fine April evening, turned out to be a refined meeting point of cigar smokers from France, Argentina and Pakistan including notable personalities like Naveed Qamar, th ... Jump to full article >>

New measures to protect children and young people from the harm caused by smoking have been unveiled by the Welsh Assembly Government. The proposals include a ban on the display of tobacco products in shops and to ban the sale of tobacco products through vending machines. Under the proposed regulations, specialist tobacconists will still be able to display tobacco products within their shop, provided that displays cannot be seen from outside the shop . Restrictions will also be placed on the size of price lists for tobacco products in shops. The move aims to protect children and young people f ... Jump to full article >>

White Star Line’s 1911 brochure features sketches of Titanic’s grand staircase, dining rooms and a half-open porthole The most poignant view in the 1911 brochure boasting of the splendour of the Titanic is not the sketch of the bronze, balustraded grand staircase, the verandah cafe with its colonial rattan armchairs, the smoking room, the swimming pool or the opulent dining rooms. The rare postcard-sized booklet, soon to be auctioned and expected to fetch up to £15,000, includes a tiny sketch of a half-open porthole, showing the kind of view passengers could expect if they were fo ... Jump to full article >>