Can feeling good ever be bad? New research says yes—and points the way to a healthier, more balanced life.

As the presidential campaign kicks off, both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are looking for popular ways to reduce a still-ballooning deficit. However sensible, proposing deep cuts in Medicare or defense spending has little political appeal.

BEIJING: The first World Happiness Report, released by the Earth Institute last month, was commissioned by the United Nations for its Conference on Happiness. It again shows that the world’s happiest countries are all in northern Europe – Denmark came tops followed by Finland, Norway and the Nether lands.

Happiness may be nothing to sneeze at but it definitely is "catching", visiting Welsh public health leader and happiness researcher Prof Sir Mansel Aylward says. read more

If you want to live a happy life, develop a lifelong close relationship with at least one friend. Good friends are extremely rare. Few people will ever have more than they can count on one hand.

The 83-year-old is legally blind, has limited movement in her left side after suffering a heart attack and stroke, and has fallen three times and broken bones.

By Belinda Goldsmith/Reuters Thimphu In a remote Himalayan valley, an archer and a shooter are calmly preparing for a trip of a lifetime to represent Bhutan at the London Olympics, but winning is not the main target.

Michelle George, (pictured) from Guisborough, Cleveland, was left feeling ‘disfigured’ from her illness. At Teesside Magistrates’ Court the mother-of-two was given a suspended 18-week sentence.

In a remote Himalayan valley, an archer and a shooter are calmly preparing for a trip of a lifetime to represent Bhutan at the London Olympics, but winning is not the main target.

A new self-help program designed to help people lead happier lives, received an unexpected boost from a published University of Pennsylvania Study suggesting that happy people live up to 9 years longer. (PRWeb May 18, 2012) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9515465.htm