Pics Laurence Price Farnborough Airshow has certainly been a popular attraction for visitors with spectacular flying displays from Red Arrows. Ever since Concorde retired 15 years ago, three US firms Boom Supersonic, Aerion Supersonic and Spike Aerospace are racing to be the first to slash travel times across the globe, with passenger jets travelling…
The Prize-winning author of True crime Midnight in Peking, in his new book City of Devils, portrays Shanghai through its historical criminals a bunch of rascals. He does not write memoirs of ambassadors, businessmen and missionaries, and in the City of Devils, French’s heroes are the low-life foreigners who came to the city when it…
Fund Inflows into the technology industry have surpassed the £20bn mark already for the current year despite raising concerns among a few fund managers that the “tech trade” is overextended. Global equity funds associated with technology stocks took in another $673m in the week ending July 18, with the 12th straight week of inflows, bringing…
London’s luxury developers are selling homes in bulk corporate landlords after a serious drop in demand for expensive luxury new properties among individual buyers. Bulk buyers cornered 40 per cent of London’s new-build sales in the second quarter this year, who generally extract a steep discount with the aim of setting up portfolios of rented…
E-commerce giant Amazon crossed $0900bn market cap for the first time in its history on Wednesday, becoming only the second company after Apple to achieve this great milestone after its shares rose as much as 0.8 per cent to a record $, 1, 858.88, closing in on Apple in the race to be the first…
Third One-day International Headingley India 256/8 (50 overs): Kohli 71, Willey 3-40, Rashid 3-49 England 260-2 ( 44.3 overs): Root 100*, Morgan 88*, Shardul Thakur 1-51 England won by eight wickets win series 2-1 England beat India in the third one-day international to take the series 2-1. England marched to their target of 257 with 33…
Karl Marx when discussing economic inequality and the socialist criticism of the free market system (capitalism) implying the perceived inevitability called the “Law of increasing Poverty”. Germany’s manufacturing sector is twice the size of Britain’s 23 per cent of national GDP, compared with 11 per cent according to World Bank. Germany has been thriving as…
Angelique Kerber beat seven-time champion Serena Williams to win her first Wimbledon title. The German 11th seed, 30, beat the 23-time Grand Slam Champion Serena 6-3, 6-3 to add this title to her 2016 Australian and US Open crowns. Williams had been the favourite despite it being the fourth tournament since giving birth in September…
England captain Harry Kane has won the Golden Boot after finishing as the World Cup top scorer with Croatia Luka Modric winning the Golden Ball for being the player of the tournament with Belgium midfielder Eden Hazard was the second best player, with France forward Antoine Griezmann third. France’s Team-mate Kylian Mbappe won the Young…