Prince Harry made a low-key return to the UK after his controversial holiday in Las Vegas in the United States as Britain fiercely debated the almost complete blackout of the nude photographs of the young royal.
In the UK, the nude photographs of the prince were only published by the Guido Fawkes political blog and the Sun tabloid had a mock-up of one of the Harry nude photos with naked staff posing as the prince and his unknown female companion.
The prince was even labelled as “Boris Johnson of the royal family” by the British media over his unpredictable behaviour.
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‘Alcohol may increase risk of cancer’
Washington: Scientists have discovered that breakdown of alcohol by the body forms a substance that can damage DNA dramatically and increase chances of cancer, with people of Asian descent at a greater risk.
Researchers from the University of Minnesota found that when human body breaks down, or metabolises, the alcohol in beer, wine and hard liquor, one of the substances formed is acetaldehyde, a substance with a chemical backbone that resembles formaldehyde, a known human carcinogen.
Scientists also have known from laboratory experiments that acetaldehyde can cause DNA damage, trigger chromosomal abnormalities in cell cultures and act as an animal carcinogen. “We now have the first evidence from living human volunteers that acetaldehyde formed after alcohol consumption damages DNA dramatically,” Silvia Balbo, who led the study, said. — PTI