If you want real life and not fantasy – this is the film for you! At the Raindance Film Festival, a film which has already been bought up by more than 10 countries, including the UK, China, USA, Australia and the Middle East, “Love is Thicker than Water” (104 minutes) was screened to a packed…
TfL said Uber was not “ fit and proper” to hold a London private hire operator license on the grounds of “public safety and security implications”. Over 500, 000 names have since been added to Uber’s petition which says “If this decision stands, it will put more than 40, 000 licensed drivers out of work…
“For years as I carved a path in venture capital, I believed that if I did what I’d earlier to succeed at the highest levels of academia and law and business, I could rise there, too. I am the daughter of Chinese immigrants, I’ve always believed in keeping my head down and forging ahead. I…
A 1000-year-old brush washer ceramic dish from Ru Guanyao, the most revered of the five great Kilns used from the Imperial China commissioned during the Song dynasty, is expected to sell for more than £10 million at Sotheby’s sale in Hong Kong, on October 3rd, 2017. “Of the 87 heirloom Ru wares to have survived…
Nick Matthewman, a student at the University of Sheffield, who was celebrating his 20th birthday on 20th September 2017, at the Banker’s Draft Wetherspoons in Sheffield when Rory McArthur (19) posted the invitation along with a photo saying ‘This is Nick and it’s his birthday. We’re at the Banker’s Draft Spoons in Sheffield, table…
Billionaire L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, whose family founded L’Oreal over a century ago, as the maker of hair dye and still owns largest stake in the cosmetics giant, has died aged 94. French businesswoman, listed in Forbes as the World’s richest woman, and L’Oreal, France’s fourth largest listed company. Bettencourt and her family owned 33…
The tremor punched holes on the side of the skyscrapers in the capital at Mexico City. The 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck at 1 pm (6GMT) killed 250 people including 21 primary school children and toppled several buildings in the Mexico City. The earthquake came on the anniversary of the devastating 1985 earthquake that caused major…
Tata Steel, Britain’s biggest steel producer at Port Talbot steelworks in Wales, and German Industrial Group ThyssenKrupp have signed a memorandum of understanding with a view to merging. The announcement on 20th September 2017, said ThyssenKrupp and Tata’s European operations would join forces in a 50/50 venture which could obviously see some job losses in…
John Thomas Chambers (68), is to step down as chairman of Cisco Systems, the networking equipment company. During his tenure, in the last 15 years, Cisco was described as the world’s most valuable company, and currently going through upheaval caused by cloud computing. Chambers stepped back as Chief executive two years ago, handing the position…
George Soros, a supporter of Democratic ideals, who fled his country and went to London School of Economics under Karl Popper, the Austrian-British philosopher, working as a railway porter and a waiter before getting into currency speculation. He also worked in several merchant banks in London before moving to New York in 1963 and in…