Microsoft today confirmed that it acquired Git-Hub, a popular Git-based code sharing and collaboration service for $7.5billion in Microsoft stock. GitHub raised $350m and the company was valued at £2bn in 2015. Former Xamarin CEO Nat Friedman ( now Microsoft corporate vice president) will become the GitHub’s CEO. Former GitHub CEO Chris Wanstrath will become…
The Fuego volcano, 25miles (40km) south-west of the capital Guatemala city, spewed rocks, gas and ashes into the sky on Sunday as the fast-moving mixture of red-hot rock and gas are known as pyroclastic flows rushed the mountainside and engulfed villages at extreme high speed, killing 99 people inside their homes and injuring hundreds with over…
The death and loss of a child is the ultimate devastating tragedy and make parental bereavement difficult to resolve. A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in homespun threadbare suit, disembarked a train in Boston, and walked without an appointment into the President’s office of Harvard University, a private Ivy league…
The slum clearances of the late nineteenth century as Boughton asks why the state’s duty to house its people decently became central to our politics. He also shows how the loss of the dream of good housing for all is a danger for the whole of society – as was seen in the fire in…
India has been unable to match China’s powerful infrastructure, diplomacy as both US and India worries that China wants to become a regional “hegemon”, a fear that has united the world’s largest democracies over recent years. A rising India wants a power broker at the table of global powers, with its huge military and growing…
This is the story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Hick’s hidden love and secret affair. Lorena Hickok, an accomplished ground-breaking journalist, one of America’s first female sportswriters, a lead reporter for Associated Press and the first woman at the New York Times to have front page byline, who covered everything from the Lindbergh kidnapping to the…
Two tigers, two lions and a Jaguar have escaped from the privately owned Eifel Zoo, in Lunebach in western Germany. The animals were able to break out after flooding from a storm overnight. The 30-hectare (64-acre) Eifel Zoo, owned by the Wallpott family, is home to 400 animals of 60 species including Siberian tigers and…
The UK government has announced new rules to ban drones from flying within 1 km of airports, so that collisions with planes can be prevented. The Department for Transport said that the number of ‘Drone incidents with aircraft” had risen from six in 2014 to 93 last year. The new rules, which will come…