The 22-year-old Dua Lipa, won the best British Female solo artist and 24-year-old Stormzy won the Best British male artist, beat much more experienced competitors to the top prizes at the ceremony at London’s O2 Arena. The Kosovar Albanian pop singer Lipa, who slogged her way to the top of the charts, emigrating to London…
Indonesia was engulfed in darkness by a 23, 000-foot ash cloud after Mount Sinabung erupted on 19th February 2018, Monday morning. North Sumatra was plunged into darkness as the stratovolcano, Mount Sinabung in the Karo Plateau of Karo Regency, North Sumatra, Indonesia, 25 miles from the Lake Toba, spewing plumes of smoke and ashes across…
Malayalam actress from India, Priya Prakash Varrie, whose clip in the song “Manikya Malaraya Poovi” turned viral said: “ I would like to be known as a good actor rather than being known as the wink queen. This is a new feeling. But I am happy.. I never expected that the wink clip would become…
Although Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water went into London’s Royal Albert Hall with 12 nominations, it was Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri emerged as the biggest victor, claiming 5 awards, including the best film, best actress and best supporting actor.Del Toro won the best actor among The Shape of Water’s three awards. Coco…
The running green men and the red traffic light men in Southern Taiwan got girlfriends thanks to Valentine’s Day. The first 40 pedestrian signs featuring a new couple design has been installed at an official ceremony in southern Pingtung County. The red traffic light now features animated red man kneeling down to propose to his…
The Aseman Airlines, a twin-engine turboprop, flight EP3704 en route from Tehran at 04:30 GMT, to the south-western city of Yasuj, crashed near the city of Semirom in Isfahan province an hour later. Sixty-six people, two security guards, two flight attendants and the pilot and co-pilot were on the board are feared to have been…
The former Sunday Times dating columnist, Dolly Alderton’s memoir irons out the mythology of modern love, by recollecting dodgy hook-ups, failed relationships and weird flings with unfiltered honesty. Her tale of drunken romps through London, drug dealers called Fergus and Pricey late-night cab rides up the M1, She lists email parodies and recipes like the…
Seven-year-old Snapchat is a conundrum for people over 30. Billy Gallaher captures the appeal of the Snapchat but fails to exert the secrecy of how a photo-messaging app with a definite reputation as sexting tool rose to become a $22bn public company used by 187 million people daily. Snapchat is an image messaging…
The Lloyds Banking Group mandate which represents a fifth of Standard Life Aberdeen’s Assets, which had already fallen from £670bn to £646bn after a wave of investment redemptions despite record equity prices. Last year’s £11bn takeover of Aberdeen Asset Management by Standard Life, experienced a collapse after the UK’s biggest fund managers lost its biggest client…
Punjab National Bank, one of India’s second largest banks has uncovered fraudulent payments worth £1.3bn ($1.8bn) to a handful of customers made through a single branch in Mumbai. Based on these transactions, other banks appear to have advanced money to these customers abroad. Shares in PNB fell dramatically to 10.4 per cent yesterday, valuing the…