NASA’s Juno mission to the gas giant Jupiter has now reached halfway mark and has shown new views of cyclones at the poles. Juno performs a science gathering dive, scanning from pole to pole as it orbits the planet every 53 days. It is mapping the magnetic and gravity fields and expose Jupiter’s structure and…
Month: December 2018
At 6:30 local time (03:30 GMT) a high-speed train had collided with another train, then an overpass involved at Marsandiz railway station about 8 km ( 5miles) from Ankara’s main station in Turkey has killed at least nine people and injured 50, according to Turkey’s transport minister. Ankara governor Vasip Sahin said the train…
Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee has announced that Prime Minister Theresa May has retained the Conservative Party leadership, winning a confidence vote buy 200 votes to 117 clearing the threshold of 159 votes required to stave off a leadership contest. The pound eases as May wins confidence vote, as it dipped to…
Fugitive billionaire and owner of the Force India Formula One team and owner of now defunct Kingfisher Airlines, whose extradition has been ordered by a UK court, which described him as “glamorous, flashy, famous, bejewelled, bodyguarded, ostensibly billionaire playboy who charmed and cajoled these bankers into losing their common sense.” The court stated “ there…
Malaysia’s 37-year-old Jho Low accused of stealing £3.6 billion from government gifted expensive jewellery and a grand see-through piano worth $1m to 35-year-old Australian supermodel Miranda Kerr sitting in her Malibu home and also purchased a custom-made yacht called Equanimity outfitted with a helipad and movie theatre worth £200million, £25 million penthouse in New York…
Asia’s richest person Mukesh Ambani’s 27-year-old daughter Isha Ambani on Wednesday got married to industrialist Ajay Piramal’s 33-year-old son Anand Piramal at Ambani’s 27-storey residence Antilla in Mumbai. The couples wedding is reported to cost around £80 million.
Isha Ambani, the daughter of India’s richest man, is marrying Anand Piramal, son of another Indian billionaire this week. US singer, Beyoncé was one of the celebrities flown in along with Bollywood stars and guest like Hillary Clinton, media giant Arianna Huffington, cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal with guests flown in on 100…
Doug McMillon kept a photo on his phone that list the top 10 retailers in the U.S. over the past few decades. This is how Walmart held the No. 1 spot since the 1990s when it took over Sears. McMillon says the retailer maintains a “healthy paranoia” to stay ahead of rivals, in the race…
The world is changing dramatically and with the advent of Brexit and Trump, the isolation and fragmentation permeating the western world stand in sharp contrast to event along the Silk Roads, which new ties have been strengthened and mutual cooperation established. Peter Frankopan assesses the global reverberations of these constant shifts in the centre of…
Interserve one of the biggest outsourcing companies serving the government is in rescue talks that could see Carillion-style collapse if it fails. Interserve plc is multinational support services and construction company based in UK was founded in 1884 as the London and Tilbury Lighterage Company Limited and retained the Tilbury name until 2001 when it…