Why do taller guys end up earning more?

October 6th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - The Malay Criminal Investigations Department has revealed that women from other countries are making big bucks in the prostitution trade in the country, with Uzbekistan women earning RM100,000 monthly. Criminal Investigations Department Director Comm Datuk Seri Mohd Bakri Zinin said police considered the fight against prostitution a serious matter and would never let up in their effort to eradicate it.

October 2nd, 2009 LONDON - German men are celebrating because frauleins' boobs are getting bigger. According to a nationwide study of body shapes, breast measurements are on average an inch bigger than they were a year ago, reports The Sun.

September 30th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A Chinese community of dwarves was so frustrated with people making fun of their height that they turned their remote village into a theme park. Initially the tiny group in Kunming, southern China, was established by dwarves who came together after complaining about being discriminated by 'big people".

September 30th, 2009 LONDON - A farm horse that is 80.8ins tall is said to be in the running for a Guinness world record for his height, beating reining champ Remington, who stands at 80in. Poe, a Clydesdale horse, has made his owner Shereen Thompson proud, and she just can't wait to get him officially declared as the tallest horse.

September 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Is calculating Body Mass Index (BMI) too complicated for you? Well, a professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, has now developed a new easy method for people to calculating their healthy weight, and that too without any need for charts or online calculators. George Fernandez, a professor of applied statistics and director of the Center for Research Design and Analysis at Nevada, says that the "range" approach in BMI calculation does not stick in individuals' minds.

September 9th, 2009 LONDON - Taller people are much happier with their lives than shorter peers, says a new study by U.S. academics. The research published in science journal Elsevier's Economics and Human Biology claimed people of greater height 'live better lives' on average, as they are better equipped to deal with life's problems compared to their vertically challenged counterparts and they possess more of a positive outlook.

September 7th, 2009 LONDON - Known for being over sensitive about his height, French President Nicolas Sarkozy reportedly made twenty short people stand behind him, as he delivered a keynote televised speech recently. According to reports, the President's aides "vetted" people at the Faurecia motor technology plant in Caligny, south of Caen, Normandy, to stand near Sarkozy to make him look taller than his 5ft 5ins frame.

September 3rd, 2009 NEW YORK - The woman at the centre of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal has sent out a message to New York ladies saying, "You're no better than me!" Ashley Dupre, 24, who responded to a front-page Post exclusive about Spitzer contemplating a return to office, said that she was tired of people looking down on her. "Get real and get over yourself," the New York Post quoted her as telling all the women out there who "just love to judge".

August 19th, 2009 LONDON - An American study conducted by social psychologists at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina, suggests that the country's presidents get taller when the going gets tough. Lead researcher Terry Pettijohn looked at the heights, ages and facial attributes of the 11 elected US presidents over the past 75 years, and compared them with economic and social indicators such as unemployment and birth rates.

August 4th, 2009 HONG KONG - Two highly paid senior civil servants could be disciplined after a probe found they surfed the internet for pornography rather than working, a media report said Tuesday. In one case a department assistant director earning 120,000 Hong Kong dollars ($15,500) a month is accused of spending up to 75 percent of the working day on porn sites, the Standard newspaper said.

July 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Taking a dig at her predecessor Lalu Prasad, Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday said the target set by him for the railways in the interim budget was "unrealistically high". "Based on the reviews, it is very clear that the unrealistically high targets set in the interim budget are not sustainable and warrant a mid course correction," Banerjee said while presenting her ministry's budget for the current fiscal in the Lok Sabha.

June 18th, 2009 AP: Numerous cracks found in state hiring freezesSome details about state hiring freezes: — Ohio: Golf course workers, parks officers and 17 administrators earning six-figure salaries were among 777 exceptions to its January 2008 hiring limits. — Alabama: Gov.

May 14th, 2009 SYDNEY - Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting believes both Michael Vaughan and Steve Harmison will find a spot in the England squad during the upcoming Ashes series. Vaughan, who captained England to Ashes glory in 2005, and pace bowler Harmison, who was one of the stars of that series, are currently out of an England squad which won the first of a two-Test series against the West Indies in convincing fashion last week.

May 11th, 2009 NEW YORK - The incredible shrinking World Trade Center will be cut back from five iconic skyscrapers to just two signature towers under a new Port Authority plan, the Daily News has learned. Bludgeoned by recession and a war with developer Larry Silverstein, the Port Authority is proposing halving the office space it will build at Ground Zero - from 10 million square feet to five million square feet, sources familiar with the plan say.

January 1st, 2009 SYDNEY - As Australia Saturday head into the last Test trailing 0-2, captain Ricky Ponting admits it is a disappointing position to be in at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) that has been a happy hunting ground for the hosts. Ponting would be looking to atone for the losses in the first two matches at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG), which is special for him.