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Eating high-fat curries may not be as bad for us as we thought - at least, not if we lace them with turmeric. scientists at Boston's Tufts University found that mice fed a high-fat diet that contained curcumin, a component of turmeric, put on less weight. This puts the spice in that magic group of foods with health-giving properties - along with garlic, ginger and fish oils.Like ginger, turmeric is a rhizome, a horizontal stem of a plant that grows underground. Generally speaking, it is prized more for its colour than its flavour: turmeric is the oldest natural food dye in the world, and is now seen in ingredients lists as E100. In my opinion, however, this downgrading from flavour to colour is largely due to the spice we get in Britain being old and dull by the time it reaches us. In Zanzibar, I got the shock of my life when I cut into a nugget just dug from the earth: it had an intense smell, was dazzlingly bright and practically orange in colour, with an interesting, bitter, earthy

Dame Clara Furse the chief executive of the London Stock Exchange insisted she is handing on a business that is 'at the heart of the global economy' despite announcing group losses of £338m for the year to March on her last day.

WASHINGTON -- In the District of Columbia, where African-Americans are the majority and black congregations dominate, the recent vote to recognize same-sex marriages may signal the gay rights movement is making inroads among groups traditionally opposed to it.

A car bomb exploded Wednesday near several restaurants in a Shiite neighborhood of northwest Baghdad, killing 41 people and injuring more than 70, police and hospital officials said. No group claimed responsibility for the horrific blast but the style and...

BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The pursuit of German carmaker Opel has narrowed to a three-way race between Italy's Fiat, Canadian-Austrian car parts group Magna and investment firm RHJ international.

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - A bill that would have made New Hampshire the sixth state in the United States to authorize gay marriage stalled unexpectedly Wednesday over concessions to religious groups opposed to such unions.

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John Breslow, who owns a two per cent stake in the Phoenix Coyotes, has told the Toronto Star through his lawyer, Scott Cohen, that he is putting together an ownership group willing to keep the team in Arizona.

New York authorities indicted seven people accused of running a prostitution ring on the Web site Craigslist, the state's attorney general announced Wednesday. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office said the group ran a 24-hour prostitution ring called Room service Entertainment from Craigslist's erotic services section from June 2007 to December 2008.

As the government of Sri Lanka celebrated the end of a decades-long civil war against the Tamil Tigers, aid groups and the U.N. appealed for access to some 280,000 displaced Tamils. UNICEF spokesman James Elder discusses the refugee crisis.