Britain’s Andy Murray demolished Milos Raonic’s huge serve to become the first man to win the Queen’s Club title five times. Andy had to come back as Raonic led the set by 3-0, to break the Canadian’s serve, twice in succession. The top seed and defending champion went on to win 6-7 (5-7) 6-4 6-3.…
Month: June 2016
Group A Albania beat Romania 1-0 Sadiku43’ Group A Switzerland drew with France 0-0 FC Zurich’s Armando Sadiku scored the only goal of the game when he headed past Romanian keeper Ciparian Tatarusanu and recorded Albania’s first major tournament victory in Lyon since 1948, that gives them some of reaching…
Group E Belgium beat Republic of Ireland 3-0 R Lukaku 48’, 70’, A Witsel 61’ Group F Iceland drew with Hungry 1-1 G Sigurdsson (pen( 39’ B Saevarsson (og) Group F Portugal drew with Austria 0-0 Romely Lukaku scored twice for Belgium and recorded their first win…
This biography of Oscar Wilde is presented as part of an Anglo-Irish family, an actor with a compelling intergenerational tragedy. Sir William Wilde, his father, a prominent Dublin doctor and folklorist and mother Jane, a political poet “Speranza”. Sir William, a Victorian polymath, expert in aural medicine, and who was appointed Queen Victoria’s doctor…
Erika Soloman, an arts graduate from Harvard Univeristy, the Middle East Financial Times Correspondent, since 2014, has won the One World Award for International journalist of the year for her reports on the financing of Islamist group Isis. Erika won her award her brave investigative journalism.
Make-up and hair care products, Revlon, has agreed to buy Elizabeth Arden for £609m ($870m). Elizabeth Arden, famous for its Eight Hour Cream and Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber fragrances, dominates in the Asia-pacific region. Canadian-born Elizabeth Arden who founded the company in New York City in 1910, was the first to introduce eye make-up…
Group E Italy beat Sweden 1-0 Eder 88’ Group D Czech Republic drew with Croatia Skoda 75’ , Necid 89’pen Perisic 37’, Rakitic 59’ Group D Spain beat Turkey 3-0 Morata 34’, 48’ Nolito 37’ Italy are through to the last 16 of the European Championship finals after Eder rushed onto Zaza’s…
Jo Cox, Labour MP for Batley and Spen, was shot and stabbed in a “horrific brutal” assault in her constituency and was left bleeding on the ground after the attack in Birstall, West Yorkshire. A man was arrested nearby. Tributes flooded in from politicians including David Cameron, Jeremy Corbyn and US Secretary of State John…
Group B England beat Wales 2-1 Vardy 56’, Sturridge 90’+1’ Bale 42’ Group C Northern Ireland beat Ukraine 2-0 McAuley49’, McGinn 90’+6’ Group C Germany drew with Poland 0-0 Gareth Bale’s 30-yard free-kick crept in and put Wales ahead just before the interval in Lens. Substitutes Jamie Vardy equalized by scrambling in…
Its been done before – think the French movie Untouchable or the amazing Asian film Guzarrish – so try to see those two also if you find you “like” Me before You. The best-selling novel Me Before You was written by Jo Jo Moyes (an unusual name but a less than unusual plot) and the film…