Cut music to 'an hour a day' - WHO

People should listen to music for no more than one hour a day to protect their hearing, the World Health Organization suggests.

It says 1.1 billion teenagers and young adults are at risk of permanently damaging their hearing by listening to "too much, too loudly".

It said audio players, concerts and bars were posing a "serious threat".

Robert Mugabe admits Zimbabwe's land reform flaws

Robert Mugabe has ruled Zimbabwe since independence in 1980

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has admitted failures in the country's controversial land reform programme.

"I think the farms we gave to people are too large. They can't manage them," the 91-year-old leader said in unusually candid comments.

In the past he has tended to blame poor agricultural productivity on the weather and Western sanctions.

Mexico president hails capture of drug lord Servando 'La Tuta' Gomez

"La Tuta" was one of Mexico's mostpowerful drug lords

Mexican police have captured the country's most wanted drug lord, Servando "La Tuta" Gomez.

Mr Gomez, leader of the Knights Templar drug cartel, was arrested in Morelia in Michoacan state without a shot fired.

He was taken to Mexico City, where he was paraded before television cameras, before being flown by helicopter to a maximum security prison.

Russia opposition politician Boris Nemtsov shot dead

Mr Nemtsov was shot on a bridge within sight of St Basil's Cathedral and the Kremlin

A leading Russian opposition politician, former Deputy Prime Minister 

Boris Nemtsov, has been shot dead in Moscow, Russian officials say.

An unidentified attacker in a car shot Mr Nemtsov four times in the back as he 

crossed a bridge in view of the Kremlin, police say.

First direct observation confirms CO2 causing increase in greenhouse effect

HARROW: Scientists say they’ve made the first direct observations confirming an increasing greenhouse effect at the Earth’s surface caused by carbon dioxide.

The finding confirms in nature what has already been predicted by computer models and seen in laboratory experiments, that continued emissions of carbon dioxide are causing warming of the surface of the Earth, researchers say.

'Give HIV drugs to healthy gay men'

Healthy gay men should be offered daily HIV drugs to prevent infections, say campaigners.

A UK study, on 545 high-risk men, found one case of HIV could be stopped for every 13 men treated for a year.

The research team says it would be similar to the pill for women and would not encourage risky sex.

Ugandan gay people 'abused by police'

Some gay Ugandans have fled the country, saying they are being persecuted

Ugandan police harass and physically abuse gay people in custody, a report by a human rights group has said.

Chapter Four Uganda documented several cases of men suspected of being homosexual having intrusive physical examinations.

The Dangers of Too Much Sleep

Can you ever have too much of a good thing? It's hard to believe there's such a thing as too much sleep, because most of us barely get enough.  An average person spends about 33% of his or her life sleeping. Studies have shown that sleeping works on a principle called the Goldilocks effect which states that something must fall within limits and not reach extremes. But is oversleeping as bad for our health as sleep deprivation? And if it is, how?

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