According to Brazil’s Environment Ministry, arson may be the cause of a wildfire that has destroyed more than a quarter of a national park in the central state of Goias during the past two weeks. Over 160,000 acres of the 595,000 acres Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park has burned. The park is a UNESCO World…
Stuart Scott (45), HSBC’s former top currency trader can be extradited to face fraud charges in New York, a UK court has ruled only days after his ex-colleague was convicted on forex-ridding charges in the US. The Westminster magistrates court did not deliberate on whether Mr. Stuart of Radlett in Hertfordshire, is guilty or not…
Qatar Airways has been named “ Best Airline” at the 2017 Business Traveller Awards ceremony at London’s Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington hosted by publishers of Business Traveller magazine Panacea Media and presented by special guest John Sergeant. Qatar Airways also won a raft of other major awards at the ceremony including “Best Airline in…
An explosion at a firecracker factory industrial complex, in Tangerang, west of the capital Jakarta, in Indonesia on 26th October 2017, killed 50 people and injured dozens according to police. Witnesses said a huge explosion was heard from the factory at around 9:00 am (2:00 GMT), and then several smaller explosions echoed across the surrounding…
The leak exposes some of the Britain’s wealthiest people, who are instructing lawyers and public relation companies in an effort to safeguard their reputations. The disclosure threatens to call into question the status of several British Overseas Territories which offer tax benefits to the wealthy elite. If this alleged illicit activities or conduct are…
Pictures by R Nair Chile has been named in Lonely Planet’s latest edition Best in Travel 2018 book as the number one country to visit in 2018, closely followed by South Korea, and Portugal. This is boost for Chile, whose Foreign Direct Investment fell to its lowest level in 2016 since 2009 according to…
Mark Johnson, a former HSBC bank’s head of global cash foreign exchange trading, has been found guilty of defrauding a client on nine counts, in a $3.5bn currency deal, and face up to 20 years in prison, according to a spokesman for US prosecutors. But the British citizen was found not guilty on one other…
The Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo(32) beat Lionel Messi and Brazil’s Neymar world’s most expensive player to win for the second successive year, the Best FIFA Men’s player, after receiving 43.16 per cent of the total votes and was presented with the 2017 award by Diego Maradona and former Brazil star striker and Paris St-Germain’s…
Julian Harrison, the lead curator of the Harry Potter exhibition and medieval historical manuscripts at the British Library, takes a look at the Broomsticks, crystal balls, handwritten drafts of chapters and an annotated sketch of Hogwarts school and a tombstone of Nicolas Flamel, a real historical figure who features in first novel Harry Potter and…