If you are diagnosed with this condition, your doctor or other health professional will give you detailed instructions about what diet to follow. Depending on how high your blood sugar levels are, and also on your weight even before the pregnancy, you... (read more)

Gestational diabetes isn't very common, but is well known and well understood - it occurs in about 2 to 5% of pregnancies. Most of these cases can be managed with careful control of your diet and regular exercise, but in some cases medical treatment... (read more)

Mark Rothko was a Russian-American artist who died in 1970 aged 67. His style of painting was usually known as abstract expressionist, but he did not like this classification and didn't describe his own... (read more)

There may well be a new answer to this question, but as far as I know the most expensive dustbins in the world were created in 2009 by pop artist Sylvie Fleury from Switzerland. These went on sale at a maximum of $15,000 (about £10,000) and are made... (read more)

The record for the longest non-stop commercial flight is currently held by Singapore Airlines for its flght routes from Singapore to New York and los Angeles. The business class only journey to New York's Newark Airport takes nearly 19 hours and is over... (read more)

Average winter figures for heating a house are not available on the internet. This is probably because it varies so much depending on the temperature, and also figures tend to be available for different types of fuel rather than the total cost of heating.... (read more)

First of all, it is cheaper - about $100 difference at present, if you get the basic Surface tablet (though you can get more expensive options with additional features such as the touch cover). The screen is larger and it has twice as much memory as the... (read more)

Sumbleupon is a type of social network whose main purpose is to allow users to share information and material rather than just chat. It was founded in 2002 with the general aim of improving people's online searching experience and allowing them to share... (read more)

Xitang is a very ancient town, going back at least as far as 700 BC. It is in eastern China near Shanghai, in the Zhejiang Province. In the past, when China was divided into different statest that were often at war with each other, Xitang was strategically... (read more)

The obvious place to go for Christmas markets is London, because there is such a wide choice. You can see a full list of London markets here - the Southbank market is... (read more)

The film is set in the world of bullfighting in the first half of the 20th century (1920s), and it is true that a bullfight is depicted in the film. Whether any animals were actually harmed in the making of the film - eg whether an actual bullfight was... (read more)

Novak Djokovic has now won the ATP World Tour Finals twice. The first time was in 2008 when he beat Nikolai Davydenko in straight sets. He has now won for the second time in 2012, beating Roger Federer (again in straight sets) who had previously won the... (read more)

Roger Federer has won this tournament six times in total. His first win was in 2003 when he beat Andre Agassi, then he took the title again in 2004 against Lleyton Hewitt. He had two more successive wins in 2006 and 2007, against Blake and Ferrer respectively.... (read more)

Vienna is famous for its Christmas markets, most of which will open on 17 November this year (the start of Advent). One of the most popular of the 'Christkindlmarkts' is held in front ofthe Rathaus or City Hall. This market has a top review on (read more)

Some people do keep their younger babies in sleep suits during the day, especially if they are staying in the house. As you can see from this discussion,... (read more)

You can see a full list of all the wind farms in the USA here. The total number does not seem to be given on the internet, probably because new ones are always being added and some older... (read more)

Alexa themselves sell tools to help you optimise your online presence. These are mostly charged at a monthly rate and range from simple tools to check your listings to complicated programs to help you analyse... (read more)

In the US the top 10 private colleges (top 10 in terms of cost) all charge over $55k per year. The most expensive of these is Sarah Lawrence College, which charges over $61,200. This means that if you take a typical four-year... (read more)

I can see you just put this question in for a joke, but in fact we're just beginning to understand that animals do communicate in much more sophisticated ways than we realised before. It's long been realised that some animals, such as chimps, use something... (read more)

5g, or 5th generation mobile networks, is not likely to be implemented until around 2020, so of course many things can change in that time. Previously new generations have offered a large increase in the peak bitrate, but this may not be the case with... (read more)