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Your sudden weight gain or husband's dissatisfaction in bed is not what prompts him to cheat, says best-selling author and marriage counselor, who in his new book has unravelled what makes men stray. For his new book, Why Men Stray and What You Can Do To Prevent It , M Gary Neuman spent two years studying 100 men who had affairs and 100 men who were faithful. And he found that men cheat not because the other woman is prettier and slimmer, but because they aren't emotionally satisfied with their wives or girlfriends. "Only eight per cent of the cheating men said it was sexual dissatisfaction at home and 88 per cent said the mistress was not better-looking or in better shape than their wife," Metro.co.uk quoted Neuman as saying. He added, "The number one reason behind their cheating was the emotional dissatisfaction they felt in their marriage and the emotional connection they unfortunately developed in the affair." In fact, he found that around 69 ...

TOKYO: Honda on Friday announced its shock withdrawal from Formula One over the global financial crisis, ending an involvement which began in the 1960s and raising fresh fears over the sport's future.Honda Motor president Takeo Fukui made the announcement at an emotional press conference, apologising to fans, staff, drivers and F1 authorities.He said 2008 would be Honda's last season. The Japanese carmaker will not supply its engines to any other teams."This is a complete withdrawal. The future is a blank sheet," he said. "Five years from now, I think history will show we made the right decision."This difficult decision has been made in light of the quickly deteriorating operating environment facing the global auto industry, brought on by the subprime problem in the United States," Fukui added.Japan's number two automaker will hold consultations with the team's staff and drivers about their future, including a possible sale.Honda Racing CEO Nick...

Unprecedented security for Test match: CHENNAI: Unprecedented security arrangements have been made for the India-England cricket Test match to be played at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium here from Thursday.Players of both teams have arrived, and police have intensified vigil at the stadium and the hotel in Nungambakkam where they are accommodated. At a high-level meeting on Tuesday, Commissioner of Police K. Radhakrishnan reviewed the security arrangements.“About 3,000 police personnel have been deployed for bandobust, including traffic management. Surveillance cameras will be installed at vantage points in and around the stadium. A list of Do’s and Don’ts has been issued to players and spectators. The police have taken over the stadium and the hotel,” he said.Radhakrishnan said special teams were deployed strategically to handle emergency situations. “In the event of an exigency, we have ‘Quick Reaction Teams’ to carry out the evacuation process. The players are being protected by armed...

MOSCOW: A top Russian diplomat has hinted that his country's extensive spying network believes Iran is not yet able to build a nuclear bomb."One cannot say today that Iran can create nuclear weapons and the means of delivering them," said Vladimir Voronkov, head of the Russian foreign ministry's department of European cooperation. "This information is confirmed by all the services responsible for the collection and analysis of information." Voronkov, quoted by some news agencies on Tuesday, appeared to be drawing on information supplied by Moscow's intelligence services. Western countries, which believe that Iran is using an ostensibly peaceful atomic programme to secretly develop nuclear weapons, have persuaded the United Nations to impose economic sanctions on Tehran. Yet Russia has greater access to Iran's nuclear programme than most countries: one of its companies, Atomstroyexport, is building the Bushehr reactor on the humid Gulf coast, giving t...

MUMBAI: Aamir Khan has reacted to the terror strikes on Mumbai and its aftermath. Aamir feels one shouldn't react in haste but should hit back in some way“A terrorist is someone with a sick mind. Who thinks he's doing it for the religion but he's not. We must not have knee jerk reactions. We must not react in haste. Everybody is being affected by terror attacks even Pakistan. We have to hit out at terror camps and bases,” he said. The actor condemed the horrific terror attack on Mumbai and said we need to fight back terrorism as a community. "We have to react not only as Indians but as an international community. And if need arises then we should go on war," he said.It is not only Aamir who has expressed his concern over the Mumbai terror attacks but also Shahrukh Khan. The terror attacks of 26/11 were meant to shatter the great Mumbai dream. No one has exemplified that dreams better than the reigning superstar of Bollywood Shah Rukh Khan. In an exclusive intervie...

OSLO: Finnish former president and peace broker Martti Ahtisaari will on Wednesday receive the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo for his efforts to resolve conflicts in trouble spots ranging from Kosovo to Namibia and Indonesia.Later in the day, the winners of the literature, medicine, physics, chemistry and economics prizes will receive their awards from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf at a formal ceremony in Stockholm. Ahtisaari, 71, who figured among the frontrunners for the prize for years, is being honoured "for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts." Ahtisaari has said the highlight of his career was his tour as United Nations special envoy to Namibia, during which he helped guide the country to peaceful independence in 1990 after more than a decade of talks. He also oversaw the 2005 reconciliation between the Indonesian government and Free Aceh Movement (GAM) rebels, ending a three-decade confli...

LONDON: The premier show of comedy actor Jim Carrey’s new movie ‘Yes Man’ was held here on Tuesday and the artists came through a traditional double-decker bus to attend the show.Jim Carrey and his associate actor Zooeey Deschanel also came in London’s traditional double-decker bus.The film was based on a novel of Danny Wallace, who wrote the experiences of his personal life in the book.Jim Carrey played the role of a man who replies positive to every chance he gets in the life.The movie has been produced by David Heyman, the producer of Harry Potter while Peyton Reed is its director.This film will be released for showing at the British theaters from December 26.

WASHINGTON: Weary Democratic Congressional leaders and White House officials agree in principle on a $15 billion bailout of U.S. automakers that would give the government extraordinary power to restructure the failing industry. But the rescue faces snags as Republican lawmakers raise deep concerns.

OSLO: Nobel Peace Prize winner Martti Ahtisaari urged U.S. President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday to start his term by giving ``high priority'' to the Mideast conflict, calling it the world's most challenging peace-building project.In his acceptance speech in Oslo, the Finnish diplomat and mediator also warned that the global financial crisis would strike hard at the developing world, and called on governments to not cut back on foreign aid.Insisting that ``all conflicts can be settled,'' Ahtisaari said he did not share the view that the decades-long violence between Israel and Palestinians would rage indefinitely.The 71-year-old former Finnish president was awarded what many consider the world's most coveted prize for his three decades of work mediating conflicts from Namibia to Kosovo and Indonesia. So far he has not sought a role to mediate in the Middle East. By selecting Ahtisaari for the prize, the Nobel committee returned its focus to traditional peace...

ATHENS: More than 10,000 people marched past burned out and looted shops in central Athens, heading toward Parliament after four nights of rioting sparked by the fatal police shooting of a teenager.The demonstration is part of a previously scheduled nationwide general strike, but is developing into a protest at the government's handling of the crisis.Labor unions rejected an appeal by Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis to cancel Wednesday rallies, saying Greeks have a right to protest economic hardship.Emergency services are on alert across the city. The fears of renewed rioting during the rallies and the general strike are adding pressure on Greece's increasingly beleaguered conservative government.

ROME: Italy will temporarily increase its number of troops in Afghanistan by 500 next year in the face of a "delicate operational situation" in western Herat province, the government said on Wednesday."The commitments we have made within NATO demand that our contingent in Afghanistan reach the figure of 2,800 for six months in 2009," Defence Minister Ignazio La Russa told the Senate defence and foreign affairs committees.La Russa said the increase would respect the ceiling of 2,600 set by parliament for the deployment because it refers to an average over a 12-month period. The defence minister was speaking the day after meeting with visiting US General David Petraeus, commander of US forces in the Middle East and Central Asia, who said he favoured a US troop surge in Afghanistan.Petraeus said he had "already made recommendations" for an almost doubling of the US force based on requests from General David McKiernan, the top commander of US and NATO troops i...

LUCKNOW: Sixty people were burnt alive when a bus packed with Hindu pilgrims caught fire in northern India, police said on Wednesday.The bus was travelling on Tuesday evening on a national highway near Agra, the city of the Taj Mahal. The victims, including 17 children, were returning from a Hindu pilgrimage in the town of Mathura."The bus was carrying more than 90 passengers of which 61 were inside," Agra deputy inspector general of police N.P.Srivastava said while talking to a news agency by telephone."The rest had perched themselves on the roof-top , when the bus suddenly went ablaze. While the ones on the rooftop managed to jump off and save their lives, those inside lost their lives." Police said the fire was caused by a mechanical fault.

ATHENS: The Greek government on Wednesday defended its response to the crisis that has gripped the country since a teenager was fatally shot in a police confrontation last weekend, saying that officials in Athens had chosen not to crack down on a violent minority in an effort to avoid further bloodshed.Even as new clashes erupted during a general strike that disrupted transport, schools and other services across Greece, a government spokesman said that he expected the crisis to tail off."I think it's going to fade out," said Panos Livadas, general secretary of the Information Ministry. "I think reason will prevail. I also think we will keep on doing our best not to have a future risk of innocent life. No more innocent blood. It's O.K. if we have to wait a day or two."The statement coincided with an offer by Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis to compensate shopkeepers whose premises have been damaged in the riots that have swept Greece since Saturday, when the ...

WASHINGTON: US President-elect Barack Obama is expected to nominate Steven Chu, a prominent Chinese-American scientist for the post of energy secretary, media reports said.Obama will also pick Lisa Jackson for environmental protection agency (EPA) administrator and former Clinton administration EPA director Carol Browner as his energy czar.Chu, whose father came from China, is director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a co-winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics.Jackson is the head of the Department of Environmental Protection in New Jersey, where she has earned mixed reviews.The formal announcements will be made in the coming weeks, according to news reports.Meanwhile, reports said Obama will formally nominate former Senate leader Tom Daschle to be secretary for health and human services Thursday.

UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council sanctions committee targeted Wednesday four members of Pakistani banned outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), blamed for the Mumbai attacks, for assets freeze and other sanctions.Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Haji Muhammad Ashraf and Mohammad Ahmed Bahaziq, are "subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo," set out in Security Council resolution 1822 of 2008, said the al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee.Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was one of two LeT leaders Pakistan Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said Wednesday were arrested. Lakhvi and Zarar Shah, the other detainee, were allegedly key planners of the Mumbai gunmen attack that killed over172 people.Both are senior members of LeT. Indian media said Lakhvi put together the team of gunmen that perpetrated the attack, while Shah allegedly arranged SIM cards and satellite phones used in the November 26-29 siege on India's financial capital.The sanctions comm...