Hammerson, Britain’s biggest shopping centre owners are in £3.4bn all share offer talks with Intu to create a £21bn pan-European real estate giant. The deal would bring together ownership of the UK’s largest malls – including London’s Brent Cross, Birmingham’s Bullring, Bicester Village in Oxfordshire and Manchester’s Trafford Centre. The deal will hand Hammerson Intu’s…
The 2017 London Fashion awards was held in partnership with Swarovski at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Monday night. Rita Ora, performed with a choir at the ceremony, wearing a Versace dress. Brazilian model Izabel Goulart wearing fashion designer Julien Macdonald’s creations.
Researchers at Edinburgh university’s Roslin Institute plan to use mice in a contained lab environment to evaluate the effectiveness of the approach for controlling mammal pests including rodent vermin. Tests of infertility “gene drive” designed to era te disease-carrying mosquitoes have shown positive results in laboratory tests elsewhere. “We have the making of a…
On December 3, 1992, when Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You was dominating the UK charts a 14-character text message ( Short Message Service or SMS) had just been sent – the world’s first digital script which simply read “Merry Christmas.” Finally, the humble text message is getting a big thumbs-up today. In 1992,…
Harvard educated economist, Mario Centeno, 50, the Portuguese finance minister, has won the race to become president of the influential Eurogroup, one of the most senior policy-making posts. He gained support from a majority of euro-zone finance ministers over two rounds of voting in Brussels yesterday and beat rivals from Slovakia, Latvia, and Luxembourg. He…
Rahul Gandhi, 47, a three-time member of Indian Parliament, the descendant of India’s most influential political dynasty, is scheduled to take over as leader of the Congress Party, the historic organisation that was responsible for the country’s anti-colonial struggle. Rahul Gandhi will be the sixth member of the Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty to be elected Congress…
Shashi Kapoor(79) the veteran Bollywood actor and producer has passed away at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani hospital in the western city of Mumbai, as he had kidney problem for several years. He acted in huge mega-hits like Deewar, Khabhie Kabhie and won several film awards and was awarded the Padma Bhushan civilian honour by the…
Mobile phones were merely used for making calls on the go before Steve Jobs introduced us to “the One device” iPhone. How did the iPhone transform our world and turn Apple into the most valuable company ever? This is a first hand look at how the cutting-edge tech that makes the world work- touch screens,…
In the eighteenth century, India’s share of world economy was larger than Europe. By 1947 after two hundred years of British rule it had decreased six-fold. Beyond the conquest and deception the Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism and caused millions to die from starvation. The British imperialism justified itself…
Megan Markle got soap maker to change sexist commercial when she was just 11 years old. Video emerged showing the star of the hit TV show Suits as a young girl in grade school lobbying a dishwasher soap manufacturer to change its sexists commercial in 1993. The narrator in the commercial declares that the soap…