Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has successfully launched the smallest-ever rocket to carry a satellite into orbit, a Modest SS-520 sounding rocket modified with a third stage inside its nose cone to get its payload into orbit and entered a new spaceflight record. The rocket was carrying TRICOM-IR, a three unit cubesat measuring not more…
Renzo Piano, the architect of the Shard, Western Europe’s tallest building, the engineering feats are revealed by the inspirational female engineer Roma Agrawal, who looks at how construction has evolved from the mud huts of our ancestors to skyscrapers of steel that reach several hundreds of meters into the sky. She reveals how engineers have…
Allan Chappelow, writer and Fabian socialist and biographer of George Bernard Shaw was found savagely beaten to death in May 2006, at his north-we London home in Hampstead. The neighbours took it for granted the 86-year-old as a recluse, if always polite. Chappelow’s body lay undiscovered for over four weeks. Several blows with a hammer…
Afua Hirsch, the writer, and Broadcaster, created a national identity crisis in Britain’s failure to come to terms with its colonial past. “The past is past, You can’t rewrite history” former V&A Director Sir Roy Strong said. Hirsch attempted to fill crucial gaps in British recollection of the colonial story, Born in Norway to a…
Vodafone, one of the world’s largest mobile operators, is in talks to buy large parts of John Malone’s European cable group Liberty Global in a €14bn £12.32bn deal. Billionaire “cable Cowboy” Mr. John Carl Malone, during the past two decades, snapped up cable assets across the region. Vodafone shares, rise as much as 4.4…
U-19 World Cup Final India vs Australia at Mount Maunganui. Australia 216/10 (47.2 ov) Jonathan Merlo 76, Param Uppal 34, Ishan Porel 2/30; Anukul Roy 2/32. India 220/2 (38.5 ov) Manjot Kalra 101 not out, Harvik Desai 47, will Sutherland 1/36; Param Uppal 1/38 India won by 8 wickets. India’s eight-wicket win over Australia in…
Apple reported a record $20bn (£14bn) in quarterly profits, driven by strong growth in Japan and Europe, the result was a glimpse of sales figures for Apple’s expensive iPhone X. Tim Cook, CEO said demand for the product which starts at £1000 had surpassed expectations. Quarterly sales at Apple climbed by 13 per cent year-on-year…
There was a lunar eclipse, as the Earth passed between the Sun and the Moon, for Australia, Asia and some parts of the US and Eastern Europe on Wednesday 31 January 2018. It is the second full Moon of the month, called a Blue Moon. The eclipse began at 10:51GMT and ended at 16:08 GMT.…