Cheryl’s makes a comeback

Cheryl Cole took to the stage by making her big X Factor comeback on Sunday night and performed her new single Love Made Me Do It, which entered the official top 40 at 19. The 35-year-old Geordie star who  chalked up five solo No. 1s in the past, was a guest performer on The X…

England claims first series win in Sri Lanka since 2001

England 290 Curran 64, Perera 4-61 & 346 Root 124, Foakes 65*, Akila 6-115 Sri Lanka 336, Silva 85 & 243 Mathews 88, Lewadh 5-83, Moeen 4-72 England won by 57 runs England Cricketers have won a test series first time since 2001 in Pallekele, Sri Lanka with a 57-run victory in the second test…

There is time for everything we do

A three-minute video made by Samay, a NP~S student from Bangalore, India,  won him a  £195,000 ( Rs 1.8 crores) worth prize money, his science teacher £36,000 and his science school lab  a grand of £100,000. Samay’s sense of unflappable curiosity make him one of the budding young scientist to make us understand how and…

Mosha the Asian elephant with a prosthetic leg

The prosthetic technology has come to the aid of an Asian elephant who lost its leg after stepping on a landmine. Mosha  seven months old is the first elephant with a prosthetic leg and the loss of her leg put enormous strain on her body and movement. The Friends of the Asian Elephant  foundation rose up to…

Companies more powerful than governments

Levels of income inequality and corporate concentration in the US  have reached extreme levels  not seen since the Gilded Age, as our antitrust and monopoly laws, have just become just as weak and inefficient. Standard Oil and US Steel were more powerful even than the government. Today the so-called FAANGs of the tech sector is…

Sensual dynamic between two young women

Jo a Norwegian narrator and biology student, struggles to find her  niche in the fictional city of Aybourne. As Jo is studying abroad where everything feels alien to her including the slippery and fluid food. “ I remember everything at home as being textured, here I chewed and only the sugar crunched”. The book first…

The Odebrecht scandal: plot thickens as father and son killed

  The death of Jorge Enrique Pizano (56)  who was an auditor at Corficolombiana, at a country house outside Bogota, leaving audio recordings and a TV interview  to Canal Uno exposing the biggest Latin American corruption scandal. Three days later his son Alejandro Pizano Ponce de Leon flew to Columbia  from Spain for his father’s…

Pound and Shares nosedives

The Pound and shares in housebuilders and banks took a nosedive after Cabinet ministers  Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab and Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey, followed by Northern Ireland minister Shailesh Vara, Brexit minister Suella Braverman and Parliamentary private secretaries Anne-Marie Trevelyan and Ranil Jayawardena quit over Prime Minister Theresa May’s draft Brexit deal. On…

Xiaomi UK smartphone launch with flash sale of only £1

“Flash sales” publicising Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone company’s UK launch have sparked a backlash on social media. Xiaomi advertised two of its new handsets for £1 each last week as part of a “ crazy deals” promotion and after two or three Mi 8 Lite phone sales the website said “ Sold Out”, as soon…