THE PRICE OF GOLD IS ON THE RISE THIS YEAR – GOLD FACTS !

Ingots and coins are also popular in addition to jewellery The Gold, as we all know, is a metal which is used for making decorative jewellery for women and men, girls and boys. It is also used for medicine, dentistry, the aircraft industry and electronics ( as gold is a excellent conductor of electricity). Investors…

Spain’s annual childbirth has been on the wane for many years…..

Newborns have reduced  from 665,000 a year – 1960’s –  to 380,000 in the 90s and after………. The Ojeda Artiles family was awarded the National Birth Prize in 1969 when  leader Francisco Franco handed out a “National Birth Prize” to couples with the largest families. “Official media” at the time featured many stories on this. The…

Where Zuckerberg reads, others follow…….

After a crowdsourcing excercise through Facebook,  the 30 year-old billionaire has chosen a new resolution this year for us all to read more books, calling it – “a year of books”.  Whilst most of us read books fairly  regularly year in and out, Zuckerburg has already made one book – “The End of Power” –…

You know Rolling Stone Magazine? – Well they put The Pope on the cover!

“Up close, Pope Francis, the 266th vicar of Jesus Christ on Earth, a man whose obvious humility, empathy and, above all, devotion to the economically disenfranchised has come to feel perfectly suited to our times, looks stouter than on television,” the article in Rolling Stone announces.  Mark Binelli is the journalist who wrote the 7,700…

Travel Chaos as Lorry Fire cancels all Eurostar trains!

A lorry fire at the French end of the  Tunnel and  as the carbon dioxide alarm had gone off, Channel Tunnel cancels, all Eurostar trains for the rest of the day. Train operator Eurotunnel spokesman has offered apology and says that if the passengers have booked for cancelled or delayed trains they can get either a…

87th Academy Award Oscar Nominations

The Grand Budapest Hotel  and Birdman scored nine nominations at the 87th Academy Awards, announced in Los Angeles on Thursday 15 January ahead of the February 22 ceremony. We think The Grand Budapest Hotel will lead Oscar awards as pack leader, with  Birdman, Boyhood,  and The Imitation Game hot on its heels. Julianne Moore (Still Alice), Reese Witherspoon…

125 miles per litre Fuel efficient moped with a Honda GX35

Three mechanical engineering students  from Government Engineering college at Barton Hill in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, designed and developed a prototype vehicle which runs upto 125miles  per litre of petrol. This will be one of the 12o entrants competing for fuel efficiency contest ” Shell Eco Marathon”  to be held at Phillippines between  26th February and 1st March.…