The French Zoo de La Palmyre released a statement after some visitors scratched their names “Camille” and “Julie” on the back of the 35-year-old rhinoceros. The zoo said its management was “outraged by the stupidity and disrespect” of the visitors. The visitors reportedly scratched their names on the rhino’s skin with their finger…
More than a million people are expected to visit the West London event at Notting Hill over the week end. This is one of the hottest carnival ever with temperature of 32.7 °C (90.7°F) in London’s Notting Hill. Organisers said the weekend would “once again be full of vibrant colours, incredible music with steel…
The Royal Air Force display team have flown over famous landmarks in New York City, including the Statue of Liberty. The team based in RAF Scampton, Lincoln are on a tour of North America to promote the UK and will visit 25 more cities across the continent.
All major UK airports is to introduce 3D baggage scanners before 2022 according to a government statement, which will boost security speed up pre-boarding checks and could end restrictions on travelling with liquid and laptops. The equipment is very similar to CT scanners used in hospital and is already being installed at London’s Heathrow Airport…
Samuel Johnson a great lexicographer once said he loved all mankind except Americans, who he called pirates, robbers and rascals. The American dialect, the English they spoke revealed the “ corruption to which every language widely diffused must always be exposed.” Thomas Jefferson saw the adulation of Johnson as an obstacle to America’s development and…
Neville Cardus educated at Jesuit school in Bombay 1961 and his essay on Ranji, the Indian cricketer the star of 19th century was part of the English curriculum. Ranji who played for Sussex displayed his magic against Yorkshire. Neville Cardus lived in Baker Street flat, was lonely and feared destitution, as Duncan Hamilton reveals in…
School construction works on nine out of ten schools in Pakistan, a £107m project funded by the UK’s Department for International Development are not fit for purpose leaving 115, 000 children in makeshift classrooms. Internal Dfid documents reveal that new renovated facilities at 1, 277 of the 1, 389 schools covered by the programme…
Flying above the Amazon fire reveals skyline is invisible by plumes of smoke and flames rushing across plains like lava. Thousands of fires are ravaging the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, including the northern states of Roraima, Acre, Rondonia and Amazonas. More than 75, 000 forest fires were recorded in Brazil in the first eight months…
RBS, Nationwide and Tesco have been hit by an information technology failure at US payments company TSYS that left customers left unable to pay their credit card bills or access their accounts. The disruption highlight a challenging time for banks which are under pressure to improve their resilience to IT problems but often rely on…
The Colombian Agriculture and Fishing Institute (ICA) has confirmed the arrival of Panama TR4 disease, a soil-dwelling fungus that has devastated plantations in South-East Asia over the past 30 years. Now it threatens Cavendish banana which accounts for half of global production and 95 per cent of the world’s exports. The ICA has declared a…