Be professional Looking businesslike is the first step to acting businesslike, and people will take you more seriously if you are well-groomed. This also applies to body language, so always make eye contact and keep good posture, or you may appear to lack confidence. Make it personal Remember people's names and they will remember you. Do everything you can to avoid addressing a message "Dear ... more.

Practice with Pronunciation Using English is a stress-timed language and, as such, good pronunciation depends a lot on the ability to accent the correct words and successfully use intonation to make sure you are understood. Simply put, spoken English stress the principal elements in a sentence - content words - and quickly glides over the less important words - function words. Nouns, principal ver... more.

If the mind is kept cool and calm at all times, you will have wonderful health, strength and vitality. Let any disease remain in your body. Do not bother too much. Develop the powers of endurance and resistance. Strengthen your body, mind and nerves. Take plenty of open-air exercises, substantial nutritious food, medicated oil bath and plenty of rest. Be moderate in food, drink and enjoyments... more.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Police said the mother of an elementary school student drank a 40 ounce bottle of malt liquor before brandishing a sword in her child's school. The woman, 32, apparently intended to confront the parents of another child who had been in a spitting match with her child the previous day. According to court records, an employee at Riverview Elementary School in Memphis reported a d... more.

A man who was formerly a mayor of a village in Lancashire, England has been jailed for two years after being found guilty after admitting four charges of burglary. 59-year-old Ian Stafford, a bachelor, was formerly the mayor of the village of Preesall, however he had to resign from his position in 2009 after being arrested for burglary. His crimes would involve going into houses of people who had... more.

Melbourne, Feb 19 (ANI): A burglar from Melbourne has been dubbed as the nation's dumbest crook ever after he left a trail of clues at the scenes of his crime. Andrew Bawden, 36, of Bendigo, Victoria, had within an hour of being charged and bailed over other break-ins, gone back to doing his former trade - busting into cars and houses and robbing offices and a cathedral. But his one-man crime wa... more.

A teenaged Chinese girl "miraculously" escaped death when she fell out of her 6th floor window, thanks to her large stuffed bear. The girl in Wuchang, Hubei province, landed on the toy after falling from the building.   She is currently doing well, reports the China Daily. According to the paper, it is believed that the girl's parents might have mistaken the window for the bathroom door in the ... more.

For the last over 36 years, this man has neither taken a bath nor shaved.  His neighbours in this Uttar Pradesh village situated 20 kms from Varanasi city say Kailash Singh Kallu, a father of seven daughters, is following the 'ritual' for a son. But the 65-year-old maintains that he has taken a vow to ensure the welfare of the nation. "I am doing this to do away with the problems of the countr... more.

London, Feb 13 (ANI): A South African couple, who had accidentally dropped their camera into the ocean during a cruise, will be reunited with it after a fisherman caught it in his net and put the photographs online. Barbara, 53, and Dennis Gregory, 65, from Johannesburg, South Africa, were travelling on the QM2 cruise ship, when the Nikon P90 fell into the ocean en-route from New York to Southamp... more.

Three masked men have held up a pizza delivery man, demanding he hand over his pizzas, Northern Territory Police say. The 31-year-old man was delivering pizzas to an address in the Palmerston suburb of Woodroffe at about 9.30pm last night. Police said he was then approached by three men wearing balaclavas who stole the pizzas before running away. No cash was taken and the delivery man was not i... more.