Several people had to be rescued in Coverack, following devastating heavy rain that sent 4 feet torrent of water through the Lizard Peninsula of Cornish village. Water swept through the village leaving roads into roads into and out of village impassable. Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service said its crews attended multiple flood-related incidents. A major…
Scores of residents of Grenfell Tower was subjected to electricity power surge as their domestic appliances either malfunctioned, overheated or emitted smoke several years before the disastrous fire, it has emerged. The documents show that 45 of the tower’s 129 flats were affected by a powerful electricity surge on 29 May 2013, despite this the…
Supreme brand Louis Vuitton unveiled its collection last month, and especially young rich people in London, Los Angeles, and Tokyo camped overnight outside stores hoping snap up the designer T-shirts and Hoodies, with Louis Vuitton stamp of approval. Many wanted to make a quick buck by reselling these valuable highly coveted name on the eBay…
The Wisdom Of Finance gives a new perspective on one of the world’s most misunderstood professions. Is there really wisdom in finance? Non-finance might argue that financiers are a greedy and reckless bunch of selfish and wealthy people who are reckless and lawless. Mihir Desai, an asset manager who teaches at Harvard business and law…
Third seed Swiss, Roger Federer became the first man to win Wimbledon eight times and extend his record to 19 Grand Slam titles with victory over Coratia’s seventh seed Marin Cilic, 6-3, 6-1, 6-4. Cilic struggled with a blister on his left foot and broke down in tears during second set. Thirty-five-year-old Federer, finished the match…
Valentina Valdimirovna Tereshkova, Soviet Cosmonaut becomes the first woman to travel into space, after 48 orbits and 71 hours, she returned to earth, having spent more time in space than all the U.S. astronauts combined to that date. Textile worker Valentina born to a peasant family in Maslennikovo, Russia, made her first parachute jump and…
Garbine Muguruza, 23-year-old, Spaniard, beat her “role model” Venus Williams to win her first Wimbledon final. Muguruza, who had failed to reach a final in the 23 tournaments since she won the French Open last year defeated five-time champion Williams 7-5, 6-0 and became the second Spanish woman to win the Wimbledon singles title. Muguruza…
Everybody lies is a fascinating, witty book, blending informed analysis of the signal and the noise and looks into new data sources, dominated by Google, where the author Seth Stephens previously worked. “I am convinced that Google searches are the most important data set ever collected on the human psyche”, he writes. Data provides new…
China’s new Clean Air Act came into effect in March 2017 and this affected the high-end super sports car manufacturers who in the past had been exempt from the Chinese environmental rules that measure whether engines meet emissions limits after clocking up 99.42miles (160km). Aston Martins, Lamborghinis, McLarens and Morgan Motor Company all have a…
A California-based start-up company was able to create a tiny device called TrackR, that works with your smartphone, and could be exactly what you are looking for. Time and again it has proven that California is a veritable gold mine of entrepreneurial talent. The state-of-the-art tracking device the size of a quarter is changing the…