Rebecca Abrams in The Jewish Journey tells the history of Jewish people from the ancient Mesopotamia through time and space to modern European times through 22 objects from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. From many of the little known treasures all 22 remarkable stories have been generated, spanning 4000 years of Jewish history covering 14…
Walt Disney’s deal includes Fox’s 39 per cent stake in satellite broadcaster Sky and the 20th Century Fox Film Studio for a total of $52.4bn (£39bn). Fox’s remaining assets, including Fox News and Sports, will form a new company. The deal concludes over fifty years of media expansion by Rupert Murdoch (86), who turned a…
A 100lb fully grown female leopard was hoisted to safety after being trapped in a dry 30 feet deep, well in a residential area in Gokulnagar, Assam’s Capital Guwahati, in India, was rescued after a two-hour operation by local forest officials. The wild leopard was tranquilised with a dart by Bijoy Gogoi, a vet who…
Walt Disney and Fox are near to $60bn all-share deal on the entertaining assets of Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox to create a mega Hollywood digitising global media industry. The deal, values fox assets at about $60bn including debt, and would see Disney add 20th Century Fox home to the Avatar, X-Men film franchises to…
Westfield the developer behind popular shopping centres in London and New York, has confirmed they will be acquired by French property company Unibail-Rodamco in a $24.7bn deal that will create the world’s second-biggest mall owner by the market value of $72m with 104 properties. Sir Frank Lowy (87), the Australian billionaire who founded the business…
Apple pounced on to buy Shazam, the UK–based music recognition app, in its biggest acquisition since their $3bn deal to buy Beats Electronics in 2014, according to Recode. However, the terms of the deal were not disclosed, but there is a valuation of $400m – less than half Shazam’s valuation after a private financing in…
Near blizzard conditions have swept Britain, with snow falling in London covering up to 3cm with readings of minus 2°C in parts of East and South East and over a 24 long-haul flights grounded were cancelled at Heathrow Airport. London had not experienced this much snow since March 2013 as the streets and parks turned…
This is a follow-up sequel to the international bestseller of motherhood-and- career, “I Don’t Know How She Does it,” for the modern woman anywhere. In its opening page we see Kate Reddy, a city fund manager and mother of two juggling with supermarket mince pies in her kitchen attempting to distress the pies with a…
Cristiano Ronaldo (32) beats Lionel Messi to win fifth Ballon d’Or 2107 award Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo beat Barcelona’s Lionel Messi to win the Ballon d’Or award for the fifth time – and the second year in a row. Last season, Ronaldo helped Real Madrid t win the Champions League and their first La…
Last Saturday, December 2, 2017, marked the National Samba Day, Brazil’s most iconic music genre. Rio will host a variety of “rodas de samba” all over Zona Sul Centro and Zone Norte.