Airbus’s Concord 2.0 jet, has won a patent for a hypersonic passenger plane which could be capable of flying four and half times the speed of sound and potentially fly from London to New York in an hour, the same time as a train journey from London to Sunny Sand beaches , Flokstone in Kent. The…
Like all good inventions the first traffic signal was invented by JP Knight, a railway signalling engineer and installed outside houses of Parliament in 1868 the first ever gas-operated non-electric traffic Red-green lights. Police officers had to work the lights by hand in an effort to control vehicles crossing the nearby Bridge Street, Great George…
Due to heavy rains near the town of Harda, two passenger trains in the Indian state of Madya Pradesh, have derailed on 4th August 2015, 11:30pm, within minutes on a partially flooded bridge over the Machack river between Khirkiya and Bhirangi stations, as the tracks caved in killing 30 people, 50 injured and over 300…
Mission Impossible Rogue Nation – the 5th M I Movie! Question:- What do people go to M I films for? Answer:- To see action, good looking people, drama, corruption and – of course, car and bike chases. I can guarantee there are plenty of all those things in Mission Impossible Rogue Nation but it does…
HSBC Holidngs PLC agreed to sell its Brazilian business Banco for £ 3.3 bn , $5.2bn. HSBC, Europe’s biggest bank by assets, announced a 10 per cent rise in profits for the first half of the year that beat all analyst expectations. The bank which has threatened to move its headquarters out of the UK, their…
Super Typhoon Soudelor is heading towards Taiwan, Japan and China after leaving a trail of destruction in the Northern Marianas islands. The cyclone has developed into the world’s most powerful storm of the year with wind gusts up to 220mph (354kph) that have ripped down telegraph poles and flipped over cars. A state of emergency…
A London Jury found former City trader 35-year old Tom Hayes guilty on all eight charges and sentenced to 14 years in prison for conspiracy to defraud at the London Court of rigging global Libor interest rates. He is the first individual to face a jury trial for manipulating the rate, which is used as…
Investigators of food and drug administration have seized 5,300 bottles of alcohol and packets of a white powder called Sildenafi, better known as Viagra the anti-impotence drug in the southern city of Liuzhou. According to food safety officials, distillers in China added Viagra to thousands of bottles of spirits and told customers it had “health-preserving…