A 10-minute office workout to stay fit!

With practically everyone working longer hours at the office these days, it is tough to stay motivated enough to hit the gym in the evenings -- or even in the mornings before work, for that matter! But that doesn't mean you can't get into shape. Here is a super-easy workout that can be done in your very own office, at your very own desk.

You don't even need to do these exercises daily, just four days a week is good enough. The workout comprises of body resistance exercises with a resistance tube, which can easily be stored in your desk drawer, so you don't need to carry it back and forth. The tube is available at most sports shops. I highly recommend the Reebok Resistance Tube, Level 2; men can use the Level 3.

Power Walk

Walking is the most important exercise since it burns fat, strengthens the heart and lungs, improves stamina, increases concentration levels and builds bone density, among other benefits.

A power walk will help you burn off excess fat and is a good warm-up for the exercises to follow. Thirty minutes is ideal, but if that's difficult to manage, split it up into two 15-minute power walks. The time of day for the walk is dependent on your schedule. Keep your pace brisk and non stop.

As for where to walk, you may consider your office compound or then on your way to work, simply get off a small distance away from the office and walk it up.

'Harry Potter' prequel to sell at U.K. auction!!

An 800-word mini-prequel by Rowling will be up for grabs on June 10
An 800-word Harry Potter prequel is one of 13 card-sized works to be sold at a charity auction in the British capital.

Waterstone's Booksellers Ltd. says the cream-colored A5 papers — each slightly bigger than a postcard — were distributed to 13 authors and illustrators, including the boy wizard's creator J.K. Rowling, Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing, novelist Margaret Atwood and playwright Tom Stoppard.

Rowling used both sides of her card to hand-write a prequel to her seven-book Harry Potter saga, while Lessing penned a story about the power of reading. Stoppard wrote a short mystery and Atwood was due to fill out her card remotely using a robotic arm controlled by computer linkup.

Twentyone people are dead and 100 missing as a result of snowstorms in eastern Mongolia!

Mongolia: Snowstorms have killed at least 21 people and left 100 others missing.

The State Emergency Authority said today that heavy snow and strong winds have hit three provinces in eastern Mongolia.

It says most of the victims were herders who were frozen to death and that hundreds of livestock also died.

Afghanistan: Fourteen people were killed and 52 injured today when a packed truck plunged into a ravine in the north-eastern province of Badakhshan.

Winter storm

A winter storm is an event in which the dominant varieties of precipitation are forms that only occur at cold temperatures, such as snow or sleet, or a rainstorm where ground temperatures are cold enough to allow ice to form (i.e. freezing rain). In temperate continental climates, these storms are not necessarily restricted to the winter season, but may occur in the late autumn and early spring as well. Very rarely, they may form in summer, though it would have to be an abnormally cold summer, such as the summer of 1816 in the Northeast United States of America. In many locations in the Northern Hemisphere, the most powerful winter storms usually occur in March and, in regions where temperatures are cold enough, April.