Squadron Leader Dilokrit Phattawee (35), while performing manoevres in a Swedish JAS 39 Gripen Jet at a Thailand kids day air show, at Hat Yai air base in Southern Thailand, was killed, when the plane suddenly lost altitude and crashed and exploded in a ball of fire in front of screaming onlookers. He was a…
Snoop Dogg the musician and gifted entrepreneur, former Facebook president Sean Parker, PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, George Soros, all have invested in incredibly profitable legal marijuana ventures. Marijuana is considered to be the largest cash crop in the United States, enjoying a growth of 77 per cent over the last few years with an estimated…
Once Upon a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up by Xiaolu, Chatto & Windus £16.99, 336 pages. This is not April Fool, but a fact that Xiaolu actually on 1st April 1992, boarded a flight from Beijing to London against all odds at the age of 29. She was a film-maker who failed…
Sandra Navidi’s skilful, illuminating account with both professional and personal insights into the Global financial system and the human networks that reinforces it. Super Hubs takes the lid off the financial barons, their elite networks and their human endeavour which rules our economic system and the society. In the last chapter, she explains the “monoculture”,…
Scientists studying the Saturn’s rings are hoping to get a resolved picture of an embedded object they believe exists but cannot see. The moonlet named Peggy is named after London researcher Carl Murray’s mother-in-law, was first identified on 15th April 2013, as a long, bright smudge at the end of Saturn’s A-ring. The Cassini spacecraft’s mission…
Lily, an autonomous camera drone company, that was highly successful in amassing £27m ($34m) in pre-orders, has announced failure and is shutting down. In an email to customers, the start-up said it had failed to raise additional funds to start production of the drone. It promised to reimburse all pre-order customers within the next 60…
Facebook and global advertising and public relations company WPP, has launched “ creative Ambassador Programme” in India that will empower WPP creative agencies to develop mobile first creative for their clients. Facebook and WPP will work together to instill rich creative expression on Facebook and Instagram that are beneficial for clients and people. Facebook is…
Parts of the brain involved in post-traumatic stress disorder is the amygdala, an almond-shaped region (amygdala is Greek for almond) that is key to normal expression of emotions especially fear. Brain imaging studies revealed high activity in the amygdala region deep in the brain when subjects experience anxiety, stress or phobias. The ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC),…
London’s only naked restaurant The Bunyadi, in London is offering an entirely new natural dining experience. The restaurant first of its kind operating without electricity, gas and serving food on handmade clay plates with edible cutlery and asking diners to cast off their mobile phones and iPads and even their clothes if they wish…
Playboy executive director Victor Lownes dies at the age of 88. He helped establish Playboy and ran the magazine’s UK clubs and casinos in the 1960s and 70s. Lownes met Playboy founder Hugh Hefner at a party in 1954 and became the magazine’s promotion director. He was one who suggested that Playboy set up a…