Naomi Osaka (20) won the US Open 6-2, 6-4 in Flushing Meadows, New York, after an irate Serena Williams accused the umpire Carlos Ramos of being a thief in the US Open Grand Slam Final. Osaka focused to become the first Japanese to win a Grand Slam. Global superstar Serena Williams (36) bidding for a…
This is the story of 1MDB, the Malaysian State investment fund unravelled earlier this year under the scrutiny of several international probes. Whose repercussions travelled from Asia to Hollywood and toppled a government. Founded by Najib Razak, the former Malaysian prime minister who was voted out of office after an election dominated by scandal and…
Dr. Richard Sackler, a billionaire pharmaceuticals executive, and whose family own Purdue Pharma, the company behind the painkiller OxyContin, which was granted a patent in January this year for reformulation of a drug used to wean addicts off opioids who have been blamed for spurring the US Opioid crisis stands to profit from the epidemic…
Burt Reynolds, one of the biggest Hollywood stars of the 1970s dies aged 82, in the Jupiter Medical Centre, Florida from a heart attack with his family by his side and is survived by his son Quinton. The mega moustachioed star had undergone heart bypass surgery in 2010. Reynolds shot into fame in 1972’s Deliverance…
Island of Hokkaido in Northern Japan has been hit by 6.7 magnitude earthquake triggering landslides that destroyed houses, killing 9 and a further 40 missing. Three million homes have power cut after the power plant was damaged. The tremor struck 39 miles south-east of the regional capital Sapporo in the early hours of the morning.…
The UK’s largest housebuilder, Barratt Developments makes record pre-tax profit of £835.5m in the year to June 2018 up 9.2 per cent from a year earlier and built 17, 579 homes in 2017-2018, the highest in the past decade. Their revenue rose 4.8 per cent to £4.9bn. More than 40 per cent of the…
Nineteen people have been taken ill after Emirates airline plane flight EK203 from Dubai to New York landed in New York JFK airport 9:10 (13:10 GMT) with 521 passengers. The plane was immediately quarantined at JFK airport. Three passengers including rapper Vanilla Ice and seven crew members who fell ill on board Emirates flight were…
WPP which owns companies like Ogilvy& Mather, J Walker Thompson and Group M, had a steep share price fall, by more than 6 per cent in the wake of threat from new competitor like Accenture and the rise of Google and Facebook in advertising. At the start of the year WPP had forecast flat margin…
The Financial Conduct Authority who brought criminal prosecution, its second largest in terms of volume of evidence seized, after successfully investigating five different boiler room groups, one of which claimed to be “ one of the UK’s largest wealth advisory firms”, a scam that resulted in £2.8m losses, got five people jailed for 18 years…