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The male Y chromosome may have a role in prolonging men's lives and fighting cancer, scientists have said. Research into 1,153 elderly men at the University of Sweden found those who had lost part of their Y chromosome died on average 5.5 years earlier than those who had not. Women live on average 7.5 years longer than men in Europe and the reasons behind this are not fully known. Cancer Research said the study was "intriguing". Scientists assessed how many blood cells had age-related loss of the Y chromosome (LOY) through blood test in the men, aged between 70 and 84. Tumour prevention Men with a "significant amount" of loss died earlier, said researchers. LOY was associated with general risk of death in 637 out of the group of men and risk of death due to non-blood related cancer in 132 of the cases. While a man's risk of cancer does increase with age, there are things all men can do to stack the odds in their favour” Dr Julie S...

A wondergoal from James Rodriguez helped Real Madrid to another impressive La Liga victory as they saw off Granada 4-0 on Saturday. A brilliant start saw Cristiano Ronaldo give the European champions the lead, slotting home after just two minutes, and James added a second with a vicious volley 15 minutes before the break. Karim Benzema added a third shortly after half-time, coolly poking his effort home following Ronaldo's flick. Marcelo was denied by the crossbar four minutes later, before James took advantage of a defensive mix-up to poke home a fourth and double his tally as Carlo Ancelotti's side followed up last weekend's Clasico triumph in style. The result represents Real's 11th consecutive win in all competitions, while condemning a toothless Granada to their fifth defeat in six games. The visitors, who named an unchanged side from the the convincing win over Barcelona, did not take long to assert their authority in Andalucia, with Ronaldo ope...

Oscar gave the Blues the lead in the first half, and though Charlie Austin threatened to claim a surprise point for the Rs, the Belgium winger stepped up from 12 yards to win it Charlie Austin's second-half equaliser had looked set to deny Jose Mourinho's side a fifth consecutive league win at Stamford Bridge after Oscar had opened the scoring. However, after Hazard was clumsily bundled over by Eduardo Vargas, the Belgian stroked home the winner to maintain Chelsea's four-point lead at the summit. Austin backheeled home just after the hour to cancel out Oscar's opener as the in-form QPR striker seemed set to be the hero for the Loftus Road outfit. With an under-par Chelsea on course to drop points for the second league game running, Vargas collided with Hazard just inside the area with referee Mike Jones pointing to the spot. Hazard then had the final say 15 minutes from time as he tucked away the p...

Boko Haram laughed off Nigeria's announcement of a ceasefire agreement, saying there is no such deal and the abducted schoolgirls have been converted to Islam and married off. Nigerian officials announced two weeks ago that they had struck a deal with the Islamist terror group. The deal, the government said, included the release of more than 200 girls whose kidnapping in April at a boarding school in the nation's north stunned the world. In a video released Saturday, the Islamist group's notorious leader fired off a series of denials. "Don't you know the over 200 Chibok schoolgirls have converted to Islam?" Abubakar Shekau said. "They have now memorized two chapters of the Koran." Shekau slammed reports of their planned release. "We married them off. They are in their marital homes," he said, chuckling. The group's leader also denied knowing the negotiator with whom the government claimed it worked out a deal, saying...

This is a Mathematics brain test... A girl went to school and the teacher asked how old are u? She replied I don't know bt I know that I'm half my mother's age. D teacher asked OK how old is ur mother? She said I don't know but I know dat my dad is 5 yrs older than my Mother. D teacher, den ask how old is ur dad? She said I don't know but I know dat if we add our ages d answer s 100 yrs... Now how old s d girl, her mum, & her dad?

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The under-pressure manager believes his side can take the game to the Reds after resting several players for their shock victory over Manchester City in the League Cup Newcastle boss Alan Pardew has vowed to send his resurgent side out to attack Liverpool in Saturday's Premier League clash at St James' Park. The Tyneside club have put a dismal start to the season behind them by winning their last three matches in all competitions to ease the pressure on a manager who faced fan protests earlier in the campaign. Newcastle's latest success came at the expense of Premier League champions Manchester City, who were consigned to a shock 2-0 League Cup defeat at the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday. Few gave Pardew's side any hope of progressing to the last eight when he named a much-changed side that included the likes of Rolando Aarons, Adam Armstrong and Ryan Taylor, who was making his first start since August 2012. Out-of-sorts City were stunned, though,...