WEDDED bliss increases survival chances according to new research out of the UK and presented at the British Cardiovascular Society conference this year.
Scientists suspect marriage helps buffer against big heart disease risk factors, including cholesterol and high blood pressure.
The same was true for diabetes and high blood pressure, with married people having a survival advantage.
The picture was less clear for people cohabiting, separated, divorced or widowed and researchers did not test if the wedded people were in 'happy' marriages.
Police in Mozambique have issued a formal warning to men without hair, alerting them to the fact they may be targeted in ritual killings.
Officers were responding to the brutal murders of two bald men, with their body parts believed to have been used in witchcraft.
The motivations of the killers "come from superstition and culture: the local community thinks bald individuals are rich," said a police spokesman.
The suspects, aged about 20, are now in custody, with officers likening the killings to a series of albino slayings in Mozambique in recent years, with witch doctors also believing their body parts have magical powers.
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