A woman rappels down before she demonstrates the comfort of a bed hanging vertically from a commercial building at Tokyo's Ginza shopping district. People who sleep more or fewer than seven hours a day, including naps, are increasing their risk f…... [more »]

Date: 31 July 2010, 11:27 pm

Graphic showing the various stages of sleep.People who sleep more or fewer than seven hours a day, including naps, are increasing their risk for cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in the United States, a study published Sunday shows.(…... [more »]

Date: 31 July 2010, 11:27 pm

File photo of a couple sleeping on seats at Gatwick airport in southern England. People who sleep more or fewer than seven hours a day, including naps, are increasing their risk for cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in the United Sta…... [more »]

Date: 31 July 2010, 11:27 pm

A man who collects for re-sale unwanted goods and appliances sleeps in the shade on his tricycle, in Beijing. People who sleep more or fewer than seven hours a day, including naps, are increasing their risk for cardiovascular disease, the leading cau…... [more »]

Date: 31 July 2010, 11:27 pm

Jeremy Ecker holds a glass vial containing live bedbugs he uses to train dogs for his business, The Bedbug Inspectors, in the Queens borough of New York. After infesting unprecedented numbers of apartments and offices in New York, the pests have bran…... [more »]

Date: 31 July 2010, 10:25 pm

Freedom, a beagle trained by Jeremy Ecker of The Bedbug Inspectors, is trained to sniff out bedbugs, in the Queens borough of New York. The tiny blood suckers specialize in feeding off sleeping bodies and this summer in the Big Apple they're enjo…... [more »]

Date: 31 July 2010, 10:25 pm

The city that never sleeps? Tell that to New York's bedbugs. The tiny blood suckers specialize in feeding off sleeping bodies and this summer in the Big Apple they're enjoying the pickings of their lives, specialists say. Duration: 01:38(AFPT…... [more »]

Date: 31 July 2010, 10:25 pm

Jeremy Ecker of The Bedbug Inspectors points to bedbugs that are biting his arm to feed, in the Queens borough of New York. Typically it's a problem no one wants to mention: infestations can lead to apartment leases being broken or, at the very l…... [more »]

Date: 31 July 2010, 10:25 pm

The Victoria's Secret Store in Chicago ahead of Valentine's Day on February 14. In mid-July, the bedbugs that have been infesting New York,got creepy, crawling into the delicate items on sale at Victoria's Secret and causing the outlet to…... [more »]

Date: 31 July 2010, 10:25 pm

French forsenic policemen arrive at a house in Villers-au-Tertre, northern France, where the bodies of eight newborn babies were found.(AFP/Denis Charlet)... [more »]

Date: 31 July 2010, 9:04 pm