January 2015 – The Saturn Herald

Serena Williams wins her 6th Australian Open

Serena Williams (33) won her 19th Grand Slam title, continued her unbeaten run in six Australian Open finals and extended her decade-long domination of Maria Sharapova with a commanding 6-3, 7-6 (5) win on Saturday night by beating the world number two, 16 times in a row. Serena moves past Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert with…

Elephant gives birth in the wild in Seethathodu!

A 35 year old elephant, gave birth to a male calf in the wild under the cover of beautiful landscapes, green hills, steep gradients, white morning mists rising from river valleys, rocks and bush on the roadside as her ‘herd’ members stood guard to see the mother and calf are fine and not prey to…

Britain’s Andy Murray beat Tomas Berdych and reached the final of the Fourth Australian Open and eighth Grand Slam Final. The British number one lost a tense first set but recovered to win 6-7 (6-8) 6-0 6-3 7-5. The sixth seed Andy Murray, 27, will play the winner of Friday’s semi-final between fourth-time winner…

The 2016 World T-20 to be played in India

The 2016 World Twenty20 will be played in India from March 11 to April 3. The International Cricket Council (ICC) approved the dates for its main events through to 2019, following its Board meeting here Thursday. Though the tournaments were awarded to countries in 2013, the dates were approved on 29th January 2015. The World…

Apple’s heritage and Steve Job’s mentors!

APPLE’s $18bn (£11.8bn) net profit in its first fiscal quarter, a world record for the biggest quarterly profit ever made by any public company is no surprise to many. Apple’s profit margin was 39 per cent on each iPhone 6 sold. Is Apple making too much profit on their products? Or should we really applaud…

“It is not Cricket” Mr Broad!

Stuart Broad, currently in Australia with England team preparing for next month’s World Cup Cricket wrote in Twitter: ” I have heard if you earn minimum wage in England you are one of the top 10 per cent earners in the world. #stay # humble”. On Tuesday evening the comment had already been retweeted 663 times.…

Apple reported $18bn (£11.8bn) net profit in its first fiscal quarter, the biggest quarterly profit ever made b a public company, as they overtook £15.9bn profit made by ExxonMobil in the second quarter of 2012. Apple Shares rose over 5% in trading after the US markets had closed. Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook said that demand…

Aer Lingus , the Irish flag carrier started talks on the latest enhanced IAG offer. IAG faces public opposition to their proposed improved takeover offer of Aer Lingus which has returned to profit under the CEO Chritsoph Mueller. The carrier has rejected two earlier from IAG. Amid oil price falls, IAG’s spending boosted power accelerates…

The closer Clinton gets to an announcement, “the more she really needs to pay attention to the arguments that she’s going to make about the economy, and other issues. And doing speeches for $250,000 a pop will detract from that,” a source has said, about whether or not Hillary Clinton will run for President. Currently…

Saraswathy Menon appointed to UN peacebuilding panel

United Nations: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Indian sociologist Saraswathi Menon to a panel that will review peacebuilding activities. Saraswathi Menon, a former lecturer in sociology at Madras University in India, currently serving as the Director of UNDP’s Evaluation Office. She served as UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Mongolia, UNDP Deputy Resident…