Americans now drink more bottled water than soda. Bottled-water consumption in the U.S. hit 39.3 gallons per capita last year, while carbonated soft drinks fell to 38.5 gallons, marking the first time that soda was knocked off the top spot, according to data from industry tracker Beverage Marketing Corp. But Soda is still more expensive, racking up $39.5 billion in retail sales versus $21.3 billion for water, industry research group Euromonitor found. “In 2016, bottled water overtook carbonates to become the leading soft drinks category in off-trade volume terms, an astonishing milestone a decade in the making,” it said. While the fizzy soda drinks companies have experienced an annual volume
A senior Democratic politician has claimed that the salacious sex acts alleged in the unverified “Russian blackmail dossier” against President Donald Trump are “absolutely true”. Congresswoman Maxine Waters is the first US politician to say on the record that the document, which alleges the Russian state has compromising sexual and financial information on the President, is genuine. “We already know about the part about the coverage they have on him with sex actions is supposed to be true,” Ms Walters told US broadcaster, MSNBC.
Since his arrest, Zachary Gross has maintained it was his dog - not him - who attacked his ex, Marilyn Stanley, in the fall of 2015, ripping her hair from her head and mangling one of her ears. Despite being convicted last month on a pair of assault charges, Gross, 31, stuck to his story on Wednesday. “For her injuries - I feel horrible for what happened,” Gross said to Judge Rick Brueggemann, court officials confirm. “I don’t feel responsible.
The mother of the professor whose children gate-crashed his live TV interview says she may have been to blame for the hilarious mishap. The clip of Robert Kelly, an expert in South Korean politics, being interviewed on BBC News has gone viral after his two young children - hotly pursued by his wife - wandered into the shot. Mr Kelly was being asked questions on the serious topic of the impeachment of South Korean president Park Geun-hye, when Marion, five, and James, nine months, burst into the room.
The Aghoris of India have been a curious subject for many journalists, photographers, sociologists, religious groups and scientists for years because of their grisly ways of life - eating human flesh and mating with dead bodies, which people have tried to understand and portray to the world. One such attempt by CNN has come under huge criticism in the US after a recently-aired episode of their documentary series Believers - focused on this mystical Indian religious sect - was accused of showing Hinduism in a bad light. Author and presenter of the documentary, Reza Aslan, who was seen eating cooked human brains with some members of the alleged cannibalistic sect, is now facing the ire of Hindu groups based in the US.
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