Tea, coffee do taste better in favourite mugs

October 6th, 2009 LONDON - When it comes to comfort eating, Britons love to gorge on a bacon sarnie on white bread, according to a new poll. With their sublime smell and terrific taste, the humble bacon sarnie is still the nation's favourite "guilty" food, despite the growing popularity of exotic, spicy dishes.

September 11th, 2009 LONDON - Eight out of 10 Britons use current climatic conditions as the opening line when meeting a stranger, a new survey has found. Queueing is their another favourite habit, with 70 percent of Brits favouring to wait in line compared to some of their European neighbours who favour pushing and shoving.

September 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Dunking biscuits in your tea could soon be history, thanks to the "unsinkable" biscuit. Chef Felice Tocchini claims to have created a snack that can be dipped in tea for up to two minutes without breaking.

August 4th, 2009 LONDON - A cookbook that can enable one to taste a dish before it is made is among the winners of the 2009 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), which have just been announced. It has been designed by Scott Shim of Ohio State University and Xi Calvin Chen of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

June 29th, 2009 LONDON - A group of British pensioners have been barred from enjoying a coffee morning at a public library for health and safety reasons. The seven members of the coffee morning for over 50s have met at Eye Library in Eye, near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, every Tuesday for the last four years without incident.

June 26th, 2009 LONDON - Corona Extra has been voted the world's favourite beer in a new poll. The Mexican-brewed lager - usually served with a segment of lime - topped the list of more than two million Facebook users, reports The Sun.

June 19th, 2009 LONDON - Your birthplace not only decides your accent but also what you like to eat and drink, a new study has shown. If scientists from the University of Nottingham are to be believed, people's culinary preferences could be broken down like regional accents and are highly dependent on an area's history.

May 29th, 2009 LONDON - An American is on a mission to visit every single Starbucks coffee shop in the world. According to the Times, the 37-year-old software engineer has already been to more than 9,100 - and he is due to arrive in London to polish off the outstanding 400 or so in England, Scotland and Wales.inter, who changed his name from Rafael Antonio Lozano Jr, will then move on to Spain, Portugal and Germany for more 'Starbucking'.

May 14th, 2009 LONDON - Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has revealed that he is such a fan of Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin and his song 'Livin' La Vida Loca' that he plans on having his team-mates listen to it. "Ricky's tunes are very catchy.

May 14th, 2009 LONDON - Romantic film 'Dirty Dancing' has topped a new online poll to find Britain's favourite film. The 1987 movie, starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, beat 'The Shawshank Redemption' and 'Star Wars' to claim the number one spot in a survey carried out by the Cinema Advertising Association, reports contactmusic.com.

April 8th, 2009 LONDON - 'Hannah Montana' star Miley Cyrus has become America's favourite teen idol in a new poll, reports contactmusic.com. The teenage sensation, 16, has been voted the number one young star in an online survey conducted by PopEater.com, grabbing 32 per cent of the votes.

April 6th, 2009 LONDON - Bacon sandwiches derive that winning combination of taste and smell from a complex chemical interaction in the meat, according to a study. Elin Roberts, science communications manager at the Centre for Life education centre in Newcastle, attributes the appeal of the bacon sandwich to the reaction between amino acids in the bacon and reducing sugars in the fat.

March 30th, 2009 LONDON - Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers, High School Musical 3, claimed victory at the 22nd Kids' Choice Awards in Los Angeles. A new record was set when more than 90 million voted online to choose winners for the event, which honours the year's biggest television, movie, and music acts, on March 28.

March 26th, 2009 LONDON - Claudia Schiffer certainly has a taste for her native Germany, for the supermodel travelled almost halfway across London just to stock up on her favourite Teutonic treats. The catwalk queen, who grew up in Rheinberg, near Dusseldorf, still finds herself craving for the treats of her Fatherland.

January 8th, 2009 LONDON - British football star David Beckham says he doesn't have one favourite 'goal' in his career, but quite a few. Thesun.co.uk quoted him as saying: 'I've been lucky enough in my career to score quite a few important goals and big goals.