Uber’s autonomous car struck a woman last night, in Tempe, Arizona, who succumbed to her injuries in the hospital. The deadly collision took place around 10 pm local time at the intersection Mill Avenue and Curry Road. According to Tempe police department spokesman, the car was in autonomous mode at the time of the incident,…
Andria Zafirakou, an art and textiles teacher at Alperton Community College, Brent Secondary school has won the prestigious Global Teacher Prize worth $1m (£717, 000) from Varkey Foundation at a ceremony in Dubai on Sunday. According to Zafirakou, art and textiles are powerful subjects that help the students unlock all of their language barriers. Children…
Sanjeev Gupta, an Indian-origin British billionaire has revealed plans to build the world’s biggest lithium-ion battery in South Australia. Gupta’s GFG Alliance-owned Simec Zen Energy has agreed to build a 140-megawatt-hour battery, overtaking US billionaire Elon Musk’s 129-megawatt-hours Tesla battery in the same state. Gupta also secured an $8m loan from the Australian government for…
In Ireland, St Patrick’s Day celebration has been a public holiday since 1903 when the first parade was held in Waterford. In the UK, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother would present bowls of shamrock flown from Ireland to members of the Irish Guards in the British Army. In London, there will be an St Patrick’s…
End of an Era, predicts how China has appeared a relative haven of stability and growth, and look at China’s authoritarian reform revival is undermining its rise. A frozen political system has fuelled the rise of Communist party and the systematic underdevelopment of institutions of governance among state and society at large as economic cleavages…
In this of age openness, globalisation, Walls and the Indian Salt Hedge, built not of stone or indeed of salt but the thorniest vegetation India could provide, Tim Marshall explores why the British Salt tax was both unfair and unwise and had a little moral right to impose it. The British tended to the hedge which…
Larry Page, Google co-founder, has been secretly testing an electric autonomous aircraft in New Zealand, as part of a new flying car start-up. Larry Page’s Kitty Hawk of Silicon Valley has visions of their Cora aircraft forming the basis of airborne taxi service in the coming years, as the electric aircraft is intended for use…
Rihanna was the subject of an advert on the Snapchat which asked users if they would “rather slap Rihanna or punch Chris Brown”, which appeared for a game to reference Chris Brown’s conviction for assaulting Rihanna in 2009 while they were dating. Snap Inc says the ad “ never should have appeared on our service.…
Forest guards at the Rajaji Tiger Reserve in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand in India found a wild elephant trapped in one of the barrages on the Ganges river in the early hours of 15th March 2018, and have successfully saved from drowning. Quick thinking made them divert the water to another canal allowing the…
Men novelists have been named as winners of the Romantic Novel Awards for the first time, ending over 57-years in which female writers held a monopoly on affairs of the heart. Kerry Wilkinson and Marius Gabriel are first men to be honoured at the ceremony under their own names since the awards were founded in…