Mother’s Day or Mothering Sunday honours mothers in the UK and several countries throughout the world. During the Middle Ages, the custom developed allowing people who had moved away from where they grew up to come back to visit their home or “mother” churches, and their mothers, on the fourth Sunday of the Christian festival…
Month: March 2019
Nirav Modi’s barrister Clare Montgomery state in UK court, that ” he has a pet dog to prove his ties to UK , as Modi got a dog after his son, who studied in a London school, went to US. None of these actions are emblematic of someone setting out to flee the country”. Chief…
Arab is generally applied to over 400m people living in the belt of territories spanning from Morocco to the Gulf. But for most of history its use was limited to nomadic groups who lived beyond the reach of settled society, and people regarded by civilised peoples such as Greeks or Chinese – as barbarians. What…
Torben Iversen, a Danish political science and professor and David Soskice, British economist and professor at the London School of Economics addresses does capitalism conflict with democracy with a resounding “no”, Not only capitalism work, it is also the only economic system that works and insists that democracy and the advanced market economy are symbiotic.…
Iceland’s Wow Air has stopped all flights, stranding thousands of Passengers. Its website says Wow has ceased operations and cancelled all flights and passenger needing to travel should book with other airlines. The carrier which had been in funding talks with investors, flew from London Stanstead and Gatwick in the UK. Wow was founded in…
Sports Direct’s Mike Ashley made a £61.4m bid for struggling Debenhams in its latest attempt to derail the department store’s rescue financing. Sport Direct, the largest shareholder in Debenhams, is prepared to offer 6p a share for the crisis hit firm if it agrees to conditions including Ashley becomes CEO and drop its current refinancing…
A major police hunt was triggered today for raiders who stole gems and watches worth up to £ 3m after tunnelling into a jeweller’s in a building owned by Lord Sugar. Over the week end the thieves drilled through a ground-floor wall of the George Attenborough and Son Jeweller’s in Fleet Street from a neighbouring…
A South West Airline Boeing Max 8 aircraft without any passengers made an emergency landing in the US Orlando after experiencing an engine problem. The plane was heading to California for repositioning but made a safe emergency landing in Orlando. Southwest Flight 8701 departed from Orlando International at 2:50pm Tuesday, but was forced to return…