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Tips for Sparkling Eyes

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Eyes are the most prominent feature of your face. It needs some special care for getting sparkling and beautiful eyes. Take a chilled mixture of cucumber and potato juice and dip wads of cotton in it. Keep this on your eyelids for 20 minutes and gently wash it off. Apply a little baby oil. Apply a thin coat of castor oil every night. It will cool your eyes and strengthens lashes. Get rid off dark circles by messaging a few drops of coconut oil around the eyes. Grate and tie potato in a cloth and place the cloth over your eyes for about 15 minutes. It will reduce puffiness of your eyes. Add a small pinch of salt in  water and wash for sparkling eyes. Take equal quantity og tomato juice and lemon juice, mix them well and apply around the eyes for 30 minutes. Wash it off with cold and hot water alternatively. Make a paste of sandal wood and nutmeg. Apply the paste around the eyes before sleeping and wash it off in the morning. Take cucumber juice. Mix a little rose water in it and apply a

What Have I Done? Baby Boomers Reveal Their Deepest Financial Regrets

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Over 50, underfunded, and ill-prepared for retirement. Unfortunately, that’s an all-too-common scenario for the Baby Boomer generation – those born between 1946 and 1964 -- many of whom are still smarting from the economic downturn and are now looking back at their earlier financial choices with regret. Should they have bought that house at the height of the housing bubble? Should they have taken out that student loan? Should they have pursued a higher-paying career field? But doubts like these are just part of the new reality for today’s Boomers, says Stan Hinden, author of “How to Retire Happy and a widely published columnist on retirement issues.I think Boomers are somewhat disappointed in the way things have turned out in recent years he says and I think they have a right to feel that something unfair has taken place. You can’t any longer buy a CD or invest in a money market fund and get any kind of respectable return, because interest rates are so low and have been so low and will

Morgan Freeman mistaken for Mandela in India billboard gaffe

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New Delhi (AFP) - An Indian owner of a billboard dedicated to Nelson Mandela was red-faced on Thursday after the discovery that a photo of actor Morgan Freeman was used instead of one of the anti-apartheid hero. The billboard was erected on the side of a road in the southern city of Coimbatore as part of memorials across India and the world to Mandela, who died on December 5. But Freeman's face loomed large in the billboard over small images of rights icons Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi.We should be proud that we were part of an era when they lived," read the Tamil-language condolence message on the board. Cloth merchant Chandrashekhar, who paid for the board in a private capacity as a mark of respect to the former South African leader, said it was a mistake by the designer. "We will replace it with the correct picture of Mandela," the merchant, who uses one name, told AFP by telephone from the state capital Chennai, adding that he did not know

Guy Creates Video Game to Help Him Pop the Question

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It’s the stuff that gamer dreams are made of. Boy meets girl.Girl loves to play video games as much as he does. They become friends, sharing their passion for gaming and stories of childhoods spent with joysticks in hand. Boy eventually gets girl. Two and a half years later, he pops the question, gamer style, by designing a video game to propose to his girlfriend and catching her tear-jerking reaction on video. The most challenging part of building the game was keeping it a secret Robert Fink, 24, a 3D artist from Portland, Oregon, tells Yahoo Shine, adding that he had been telling his girlfriend, Angel White, 24, that he was working late at the office, to cover for the fact that he was actually at a friend’s house designing the game. All told, the project took five months to create from start to finish. When it came time to execute on the plan, Fink, who works at SuperGenius, an art and animation support studio for video game developers that's based in Oregon City, Oregon, asked W

McDonald's Has To Get Rid Of 10 Million Pounds Of Mighty Wings

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McDonald's has 10 million pounds of Mighty Wings it needs to sell soon. The wings, which represent 20% of the chicken wings produced for a promotion, are in frozen storage writes Julie Jargon at The Wall Street Journal. McDonald's was unable to sell enough according to Jargon. Earlier this year, CEO Don Thompson said that the chicken wings aren't the smash success it had hoped for. While Mighty Wings apparently met internal targets, the item "was not strong enough to offset" weak sales trends, Thompson said on a conference call. Here are some of the reasons they flopped.     Price:  In McDonald's terms, Mighty Wings are a premium product. The wings come in packs of three for $3.69, five for $5.59, and 10 for $9.69. Thompson said the prices, which are similar to Buffalo Wild Wings, were  not the most competitive.Spice:  Thompson said the wings were too spicy for many customers' tastes.     Appearance:  The Mighty Wings looked too much like "McNuggets

Hyundai ranks as most fuel-efficient U.S. automaker for 2013 — but the EPA won’t say so

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In an industry that fights for every last sale, claiming the title for being the most fuel-efficient automaker in the country has traditionally been a huge win. Even in times like these when gas prices have eased, shoppers often compare mileages as much as horsepower, and when gas prices soar — as they inevitably will — having that message at the ready gets more tire-kickers into dealerships.In the United States, it's a federal report that typically determines which automaker may call itself the most fuel-efficient. Yet this year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency went out of its way to deny that accolade to the automaker with the highest average efficiency from vehicles it sold in the 2013 model year: Hyundai. The South Korean automaker has itself partly to blame: After touting its fuel efficiency for years, the company admitted in November 2012 that it had incorrectly measured the fuel economy of 900,000 Hyundais and Kias, forcing it to write down the MPG val

Meet Margot Robbie, Scene-Jacking Breakout Star of 'The Wolf of Wall Street'

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If there's one more thing to know about "The Wolf of Wall Street" before its release next week, it's that you should be ready to remember scene-stealing, Australian-born newcomer Margot Robbie, who plays Jordan Belfort's (Leonardo DiCaprio) manipulative second wife, Naomi (aka "The Duchess"). Robbie — who generated some buzz (and tabloid headlines) earlier this year while filming "Focus" with Will Smith — makes a very good impression upon Belfort and his pals when she walks into one of their outlandish parties in the Hamptons. Coincidentally, Robbie made a similarly striking impression upon DiCaprio and director Martin Scorsese during the "Wolf" audition process, due in part to her mastery of the Brooklyn accent, but more so because she was so into their scene she slapped DiCaprio. Watch an exclusive clip from 'The Wolf of Wall Street': Yahoo Movies recently caught up with Robbie to talk about all the trappings that come with

What to do if you shopped at Target during its data breach

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Consumers who shopped at one of Target’s 1,778 stores between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15 should check their credit and bank card statements for any fraudulent activity. Target (TGT) confirmed Thursday that it’s investigating a security breach that may have impacted as many as 40 million people. The stolen data include customer names, credit and debit card numbers, card expiration dates and the three-digit security codes located on the backs of cards. The breach affected transactions at Target’s bricks-and-mortar locations nationwide, not online purchases. Security blogger Brian Krebs first reported the breach on Wednesday. Krebs wrote that the type of data stolen “allows crooks to create counterfeit cards by encoding the information onto any card with a magnetic stripe. If the thieves also were able to intercept PIN data for debit transactions, they would theoretically be able to reproduce stolen debit cards and use them to withdraw cash from ATMs.The incident may have involved tampering with

Security forces raid hotels in North Waziristan, kill 6 suspected militants

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MIRANSHAH: At least six suspected militants were killed and 12 others were wounded Thursday when armed forces raided two hotels in North Waziristan, officials said.The raids were conducted in Mirali area a day after a suicide attack on a military checkpoint which killed at least five soldiers and wounded 34 others.Ansarul Mujahideen, a little-known militant group linked to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the suicide attack.Security forces raided two hotels in the area close to the site of the suicide bombing and intense gun battles left six suspected militants dead and 12 others wounded a local security official told AFP.Troops cordoned off the area and were carrying out a search operation to hunt down militants involved in the truck suicide bombing, he added.Local intelligence officials confirmed the raids and casualties.

Car-bomber rams NWA post; 5 soldiers dead

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SOUTH WAZIRISTAN AGENCY (AGENCIES)- At least five soldiers were killed and 34 others injured when a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a military checkpoint in North Waziristan Agency on Wednesday. Locals said the attack took place at Khajori checkpoint near a mosque, about three kilometres east of Miranshah and an entry point of Mir Ali. “The checkpoint has been completely destroyed and 34 injured security personnel have also been shifted to CMH Bannu,” a source said. He added that security personnel were still removing bodies from the checkpoint. Another security official confirmed the toll, adding that out of the 34 injured, 28 were soldiers and six from the Frontier Corps. “Four security officials embraced shahadat (martyrdom) and 25 were wounded when a suicide bomber hit his explosive-laden car into the mosque of Tejori checkpoint, some three kilometers east of Miranshah,” local sources told The Nation. Ansarul Mujaheedin, a faction of TTP claimed responsibility fo

Pakistani security forces say they killed 23 militants in tribal area

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Pakistani security forces killed 23 militants late Wednesday in a firefight in a thinly governed tribal area in the northwest of the country, military officials said.Militants tried to ambush a convoy of security forces in North Waziristan as it returned from rescuing soldiers wounded by a suicide bombing earlier Wednesday, the military officials said.Three members of the security forces were wounded in the fighting, they said, and a search operation was under way in the area.North Waziristan is rife with militants and is the area where the United States conducts its most intensive campaign of controversial drone strikes against the Pakistani Taliban and al Qaeda operatives.It wasn't immediately clear which group the militants killed Wednesday were from.

UN General Assembly calls for drone strikes to comply with international law

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UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations (UN) General Assembly has adopted a resolution, calling on States using drone strikes as a counter terrorism measure to comply with international law as the 193-member body acted on a range of issues relating mainly to human rights.The unanimous call for regulating the use of remotely piloted aircraft against suspected terrorists was contained in a comprehensive 28 paragraph resolution entitled Protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism.The portion about drone strikes were included as a result of intensive efforts made by the Pakistan delegation. It is the first that the General Assembly has spoken out on the use of armed drones, a key but controversial component of the US war against terrorism including against targets in Pakistan.In this regard the Assembly underscored the urgent and imperative need for an agreement among member states on legal questions about drone operations. The resolution urges States to ensur

Blast near Karachi imambargah kills bomber, injures two others

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KARACHI: An explosion outside an Imambargah on Khalid bin Waleed Road left a woman dead and two others injured on Wednesday.The explosion occurred after a guard fired at two women as they attempted to enter the Imambargah carrying locally made explosives.A gatekeeper, identified as Muhammad Khan, and one of the women were injured. The other woman died on the spot.The injured have been taken to Jinnah hospital for treatment.Police have taken the alleged bomber’s husband and the injured woman – whose condition is stable – into custody and security officials are gathering information from witnesses at the scene. Ambulances have reached the location and the Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) has also been called to investigate the incident.Attacks on Imambargahs and the Shia community have increased in the recent past.On December 17, an explosion outside an Imambargah in Gracy Lines had killed three people including a policeman and injured 16 others.A young suicide bomber had tried to cross the pol

Salman Khurshid: It is my duty to bring back Khobragade and restore her dignity

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India vowed on Wednesday to bring home a female diplomat who was arrested and strip-searched in New York last week at any cost amid rising anger against the United States over her treatment.  It is my duty to bring the lady back and we have to restore her dignity and I will do it at any cost foreign minister Salman Khurshid told Parliament. India upped the ante a day after it withdrew a bunch of special privileges and security measures accorded to US diplomats and missions in India, even as the US on Tuesday confirmed Devyani Khobragade was strip-searched and kept in a cell with other inmates, while hoping to prevent the episode from harming ties with India.  We don’t want this to negatively impact our bilateral relationship and we’ll keep talking it with them said state department spokesperson Marie Harf.That may be somewhat difficult at this juncture, given the outrage felt in India at the “barbaric” manner in which the diplomat marched off handcuffed, and then strip-searched.The US

Ind vs SA: India opt to bat against South Africa in first Test

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NEW DELHI: MS Dhoni won the toss in his 50th Test as Indian captain and chose to bat against South Africa in the first Test at the Wanderers in Johannesburg on Wednesday. Scorecard India are playing with three fast bowlers, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma and Mohammed Shami. Ajinkya Rahane to bat at number six for India. Surprise exclusion of Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Ravindra Jadeja. The pitch looks to be a good one with even covering of grass. It will get quicker as the match progress. The bowlers will get good carry, there are some cracks but nothing to worry on the first day, not much spin on offer, the batsmen will have to work hard for their runs. The hosts start as firm favorites with their settled line up, India are traveling without their legends for the first time in 24 years. With a young team, the visitors have a tough task to compete well in the series. They will take some solace from the fact that India have not lost a Test at the Wanderers. They have been mauled in the ODI series

Pakistan: Tribunal rejects appeal of doctor who tracked bin Laden

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A Pakistani tribunal rejected the appeal of Shakeel Afridi, the doctor arrested for helping the US track down al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, against his sentence.The three-member Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) Tribunal, which includes Shah Waliullah, Akbar Khan and Pir Fida, has remanded the case to Commissioner, Frontier Crime Regulations.In its judgment, the tribunal directed the Commissioner, FCR to review his verdict in the case and remove ambiguities.Afridi had petitioned the FATA Tribunal in October seeking fresh trial with regard to the charges levelledagainst him, lifting of the ban on his bail and conducting the trial at the Central Prison in Peshawar.The doctor, who was arrested immediately after the May 2, 2011 operation by US commandos that killed then al-Qaeda leader bin Laden, was convicted for treason over alleged ties to banned militant group Lashkar-e-Islam.On August 29, a judicial official had overturned the 33-year jail sentence of Afridi, who was senten

Australia reclaim the Ashes with 150-run WACA win

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Just three months after England wrapped up a third successive Ashes series triumph by a similarly dominant 3-0 margin back home, Australia wrested back the tiny urn they last held in August 2009. Ben Stokes made the Australians sweat through the first session on the fifth and final day of the match with his maiden test hundred — England’s first of the series — as the tourists chased their improbable victory target of 504. Once the 22-year-old lefthander was dismissed for 120 in the third over after lunch to reduce the tourists to 336 for seven, though, Australia quickly ran through the England tail. Mitchell Johnson, whose fiery spells of pace bowling had turned the first two tests, finished with four for 78 after dismissing James Anderson to end England’s innings for 353, sparking wild celebrations from his team mates. “I feel pretty good,” said Australia skipper Michael Clarke. “What an amazing performance not just throughout this test match but over the course of three test matches.

4 Reasons Running is Best for Weight Loss

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Bikini image in sexy style of USA: Any exercise is good exercise, but when it comes to losing weight, it's hard to beat running. After all, running is one of the most efficient ways to burn calories and get fit without having to restrict your diet. If you're already a runner, keep on keepin' on. If you're not a runner yet but interested in losing weight, here are four reasons running can be the best exercise for weight loss.MORE: 10 Golden Rules for Weight Loss That Lasts.1. Running works even when you're at rest. High-intensity exercise like running stimulates more "afterburn" than low-intensity exercise. That is, even when comparing running with walking the same distance, studies find that running will lead to greater weight loss, most likely because your resting energy expenditure stays elevated after you run. In a long-term comparison study of runners and walkers, calories burned through running led to 90% more weight loss than calories burned through

Jessica Simpson Goes Makeup-Free For Date Night

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Jessica Simpson looks stunning in a makeup-free photo she shared on Twitter this morning (Dec. 15).The 33-year-old singer-turned-fashion mogul was presumably out to dinner with fiance Eric Johnson when she tweeted the snapshot, writing, "Aquaphor from the diaper bag…And a filter ;) Date night!" (Aquaphor is a cleansing cream that can be used on both adults and babies.)With nothing but the petrolatum-based healing ointment on, Simpson made a kissy face as she posed for the picture.

China's first lunar probe to land on the moon this weekend

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Hong Kong (CNN) -- China's first lunar rover is expected to land on the moon on Saturday, less than two weeks after it blasted off from Earth, according to Chinese media reports.The landing will make China one of only three nations -- after the United States and the former Soviet Union -- to "soft-land" on the moon's surface, and the first to do so in more than three decades.Chang'e-3, the unmanned spacecraft carrying the rover, is due to touch down on a lava plain named Sinus Iridum, or Bay of Rainbows, shortly after 3 p.m. GMT (10 a.m. ET) on December 14, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.On landing, Chang'e-3 will release Jade Rabbit (called Yutu in Chinese) -- a six-wheeled lunar rover equipped with at least four cameras and two mechanical legs that can dig up soil samples to a depth of 30 meters. The solar-powered rover will patrol the moon's surface, studying the structure of the lunar crust as well as soil and rocks, for at least three m

'Attempted coup' defeated: South Sudan president

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JUBA: South Sudan's president on Monday said that he had defeated a coup attempt by a political rival following a night of fighting in the capital Juba."This was an attempted coup," President Salva Kiir told reporters. He also said in a statement that the "government is in full control of the security situation in Juba. The attackers fled and your forces are pursuing them."

Ashes 2013-14: England face battle to save series in Perth

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The impressive Ben Stokes will resume on 72 and Matt Prior seven, but their task on a badly cracked pitch would appear futile after the failure once again of too many senior players.While Cook received a peach of a delivery from Ryan Harris to be bowled first ball and Ian Bell played well for his 60, Kevin Pietersen was caught on the boundary trying to hit Nathan Lyon into the stands. On a day that began with an all-out Australian assault on their dispirited bowlers and bottomed out with a golden duck for captain Alastair Cook, England closed on 251-5, still a mammoth 253 short of their nominal target of 504. Cook's wicket continued his miserable series, the weight of this failing team appearing heavy on his shoulders, while Pietersen is averaging 27 from his six underwhelming innings.Once again Australia were superior in every department, and if they seal the series to win back the Ashes for the first time in seven years as now seems inevitable, it will be entirely merited. bruisi

Postmortem report of Nasir Abbas complete

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According to the postmortem report conducted at Jinnah Hospital, the bullet wounds to Allama Abbas’s head and neck were the cause of death. Allama Abbas was shot in the back of the head, near the heart and in his neck and shoulder.The TNFJ Multan leader was on his way to Jauhar Town when he was gunned down by unknown assailants riding motorcycles near the FC College. Allama Nasir Abbas was killed in the attack; however his companion Ghulam Abbas and driver Munawwar escaped unhurt. A sit-in is taking place outside the Governor House in Lahore against the killing of Allama Nasir Abbas. Allama Nasir Abbas’s murder case has been registered against two unidentified motorcycle riders in the Garden Town police station. The case under terrorism and murder sections was registered on the compliant of Allama Nasir Abbas’s driver.

IHC reinstates PEMRA chairman, issues stay order against removal

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Last night, the government had dismissed the chairman, but the court declared this dismissal null and void, issuing a stay order against his removal.A notice has been issued to the acting chairman of Pemra, as well as the information secretary and the establishment. Chaudhry Rashid had been appointed chairman of the government’s media watchdog on January 28, 2013 by former president Asif Ali Zardari under Section 6 of Pemra Rules after a ruling of the apex court barred the then acting chairman of Pemra, Dr Abdul Jabbar, from holding office. The appointment had been made for four years on conditions that the incumbent must be a 22-grade retired  officer, who could be removed after serving one month notice only if he resigned himself, or contracted some mental or physical ailment or was disabled by some accident.Ahmad’s appointment was, however, challenged by the incumbent federal minister for water and power, Khawaja Asif, in the Supreme Court. Asif had argued that the appointment was n

Bomb disposal officer among three killed in Pakistan blast

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Peshawar — A roadside bomb on Monday killed a senior bomb disposal officer along with two other policemen in Pakistan's troubled northwest, police said. Abdul Haq, 43, who had defused more than 60 bombs in his career, was headed to the suburb of Badhaber in the city of Peshawar after being called out to deal with a device.He was on his way to defuse a bomb when his vehicle was hit by another bomb. Abdul Haq and a police driver were killed on spot Najeebur Rehman, a senior police official, told AFP, adding that a police constable wounded in the attack later died in hospital. TV channels later showed other bomb disposal officers defusing the device. Shafqat Malik, bomb disposal chief for the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, praised Haq as one of his best and most professional operatives.We are losing our best officers. More than 10 officers of BDS (bomb disposal squad) have lost their lives while serving their motherland," Malik said. Haq was made bomb disposal chief