Alexis Jenni’s historical novel gives graphic explanation on the art of French art of warfare, the legacy of France’s violent colonial past and dramatises the 1990s Lyon : the occupied and liberated France of 1943 to 1945; the savage Indo-Chinese and Algerian insurgencies of the 1950s. Its English translation is done when France’s imperial…
Delta Airlines Flight 2035 from Atlanta t9o Milwaukee throws 39-year-old DJ and Poet, Kima Hamilton off flight on 18th April, 2017, since he used the bathroom during a 30-minute delay on the tarmac in the latest PR nightmare for US Airlines. The flight was delayed for 30 minutes, the DJ got up to use the…
Iringole Kavu, 50 acres of forest home to rare birds, animals and flora of the Western Ghats in India are on the endangered list. Here trees are the deities including a Durga temple in the midst of this. Iringole Kavu is one of the 108 famous Durga Hindu temples, in Kerala believed to have been…
Sports Direct’s purchase of 50 stores trading as Bob’s Stores and Eastern Mountain Sports, from Eastern Outfitters including the buying of two loss-making chains, for £78m ($101m)marks his entrance into the US market. Mike Ashley is under pressure into Sports Direct’s working conditions and investor criticism of its corporate governance standards. However, the company has…
Booker-shortlisted writer, Michele Roberts’s latest 14th novel, pays homage to all London’s streetwalkers and literal writer from the likes of Dickens, Woolf. In 1851 Joseph Benson is hired by journalist and social reformer Henry Mayhew, to research for his groundbreaking newspaper articles about the working classes that will later form his magnum opus, London Labour…
The historic locomotive Flying Scotsman is due to arrive into York station on Sunday morning around 8 am, alongside new Virgin Trains Azuma Class 800 train, the HST Class 43 and the InterCity225 Class91. The four trains in parallel display are taking part in a historic specatacle down the line from Tollerton, South of Easingwold.
Super-Earth a rocky, temperate planet orbiting a red dwarf star, located in the constellation Cetus, the Whale, 39 light years from the Sun, could contain liquid water, and life may exist, was discovered by an international team of astronomers. In an article published on Wednesday in Nature magazine, the scientists say the distant planet, dubbed…
A set of rare four ten-rupee stamps of 1948 featuring the portrait of Mahatma Gandhi has been sold for £500, 000 ( $598, 000) by British dealer Stanley Gibbons. The unique strip of four ten-rupee stamps is considered the most important and desirable item of post-Indian independence philately, Jersey, according to UK –based dealer Stanley…
In a FaceTime Call Lady Gaga (31) and Duke of Cambridge Prince William opened up about mental health. In a video released the pop star joined Duke of Cambridge’s Heads together #oktosay campaign, which he leads along with the Duchess and Prince Harry to raise. “There’s lots of shame and stigmas attached to mental illness.…
An overcrowded private bus travelling in the morning hours, down a steep, narrow and windy mountain road ravine, veered off and plunged into Tons river in remote Nerwa in Shimla District, North India along the border of Sirmaur district in Himachal Pradesh killing 45. There was a drop over 15 meters from the road…