India has opened its first-ever six-floor, 12, 000 sq feet, five-star hotel for pets. Pet owners will be required to fill in a form giving the personality and vaccination details of their pet and are offered an “access card” valid for three months. Critterati hotel pampers pooches everything from a room for the night to…
Ten people were evacuated and were forced to leave the surrounding homes after two-storey house in West Hampstead, Sumatra Road, North West London, collapsed from the roof to basement level. This dramatic scene highlighted the arrogance of property developers in an affluent area where properties fetch over £1 million, as the entire building collapsed into…
City Trillion USD Trillion GBP New York $3.00 £2.16 London $2.70 £1.94 Tokyo $2.50 £1.80 San Francisco Bay Area $2.30 £1.66 Beijing $2.20 £1.58 Shanghai $2.00 £1.44 Los Angeles $1.40 £1.01 Hong Kong $1.30 £0.94 Sydney $1.00 £0.72 Singapore $1.00 £0.72 Chicago $0.99 £0.71 Mumbai $0.95 £0.68 Toronto $0.94 £0.68 Frankfurt $0.91 £0.66 Paris $0.86…
American Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, received first of his then-record 2,332 patents including 1093 US patents, for an “Electrographic Vote-Recorder”, at the age of 21, which was never used. When presented to the Congress Committee, its chairman said: ” If there are any invention on earth that we don’t want down here that is it…
Wildlife conservationists in Bolivia has created an online dating profile for a endangered frog Romeo, in an attempt to find him a mate. Romeo’s profile is part of a campaign to raise $15,000 where the donation will be used to locate a mate for him The 10-year-old Sehuencas water frog is feared to be the last…
Tokyo-based Green Display Co has settled a lawsuit by paying ¥76 million $700,000 to the the family of the deceased former employee who died in car accident caused by exhaustion. 24-year-old, Kota Watanabe, was killed in a road accident while riding his motorbike home from an overnight shift in 2014, and struck a utility pole.…
The Saratov Airlines, An-148 from Russia, en route to the city of Orsk in the Ural Mountains, has crashed after taking-off from Moscow’s Domodedovo airport with 65 passengers and six crew on board. The airlines vanished minutes after take-off and crashed near Argunovo, about 50miles ( 80km) sout-east of Moscow. There are reported to be no…
Urban ecologist Schilthuizen studying how our manmade environments and in a world of adapt or die, the wildlife sharing these spaces with us is being forced to adopt fascinating new ways of surviving and often thriving. Darwin Comes to Town paints several eye-popping examples to share a stunning vision of urban evolution in which human…
The San Francisco-based host of TV show Bloomberg Technology, Emily Chang’s Brotopia offers an important examination of why technology industry is so dominated by men – and how women are pushing back, and have gone from whispering about sexism in the Valley to yelling about it. Chang’s journey to the memory lane and history of…