Air Canada Airbus 320, flight AC759 carrying 135 passengers and five crew members, from Toronto was preparing to land at San Francisco airport cleared to land on a runway last Friday, 7th July , 2017, but the pilot inadvertently lined up for a taxiway where four aircraft was waiting to take off. The agile…
Month: July 2017
Oxford University Medical researchers have developed a sensitive test to identify people at high risk of a heart attack or stroke by scanning their blood vessels, a method known as fat attenuation index or FAI, which identifies people whose blood vessels have fatty deposits or “plaques” that are in charge of breaking off and causing…
Former President of Brazil Lula Inacio Lual Da Silva has been sentenced to nine years and six months’ jail for corruption. He ruled Brazil between 2003 to 2010, was accused of accepting favours form construction companies in exchange for helping them secure business with government companies. However, he will remain free pending an appeal. He…
The InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland , situated beside a man-made lake and houses a music arena and Wedding hall and has 15 floors below ground level, with two to offer rooms with saltwater aquarium costing about £390m ($500m) which is scheduled to completed later this year. The hotel is also attached to a theme park…
Pearson is set to raise £780m ($1bn) from the sale of a 22 per cent stake in Penguin Random House to co-owner German media mogul Bertelsmann, which would reinforce German media group’s global domination of world of book publishing. Pearson Education is a British-owned education publishing and assessment service to schools, corporations and students. Over…
Researchers from the University of Oxford and Imperial College London have recreated the effects of Supernovae- violent star deaths- within the confines of their laboratory, using one of their largest, most intense lasers on the planet, as part of their research at the week-long Royal Society of Summer Science Exhibition. Witnessing these experiments can help…
Brazil’s banking clans could to pay over £827m 3.5bn reals for Shares in Havaianas flip-flop maker Alpargatas for a majority stake in Havaianas. Proceeds from a sale of Alpargatas, whose shares are up sharply this year, could help pay down the heavy debt load of owners, who are also implicated in a corruption scandal. Cambuhy Investimentos…
Sixteen people have died after a C-130, US military plane crashed in the LeFlore County, the southern state of Mississippi 100 miles north of Jackson, the state capital, at around 16:00 local time ( 21:00 GMT) on Monday 10th July 2017. All the victims were on the Marine Corps aircraft died according to the LeFlore…
Countess Eva Ekeblad was a Swedish noble and agronomist who discovered Vodka from potato, moonshine, potato wine and the method of extracting starch from potatoes paving way for gluten-free baking. She also discovered a method of bleaching cotton textile and yarn with soap in 1751. She was the first female member of the Royal Swedish…
Tesla will build world’s largest lithium-ion battery in South Australia to store renewable power and prevent blackouts in the power grids. Elon Musk, Tesla’s founder, secured the contract to build the battery within 100days. He said “ I do see South Australia willing to do a project of this magnitude which the world will look…