Sir Bryan Thwaites, a 96-year-old educationalist professor whose £1.2m scholarship scheme for poor white boys was backed by state-school head teachers, the scheme was rejected by elite schools amid fear of racial discrimination. Sir Bryan offered to leave the money in his will so that children could follow in his footsteps with scholarships to Dulwich…
Huawei has reported sales surge by 18 per cent compared to 19.5 per cent in 2018, shrugging off the intense effort by Trump administration to weaken the Chinese technology group and shut it out of western markets, as it shipped 240m smartphones in 2019 up from 206m the previous year. After the US banned exports…
Essilor Luxottica, the world’s biggest maker of frames and lenses has discovered “fraudulent financial activity” at one of its Thailand plants that could result in £163m ( €190m) to the Franco-Italian eyewear group. Essilor International, had “mobilised resources” to put an end to the fraudulent activities and launched an investigation and taking all possible actions…
Zojila pass One of Asia’s longest tunnel 14km long, the $1bn Zojila tunnel, linking the fertile Kashmir Valley with the deserts of high-altitude Ladakh, providing a vital supply corridor for India’s armed forces, and economic lifeline to locals cut off by snow in the winter and a boom to tourists visiting the region’s mountain peaks.…
The Bek Air passenger has crashed in Kaxakhstan at 07:22 (01:21 GMT) killing 12 people leaving dozens of survivors. The Fokker 100 aircraft was flying from Almaty – Kazakhstan’s largest city to the capital Nur-Sultan when it smashed into a building just after take off with 93 passengers and five crew on board. The…
Russia has successfully tested a country-wide unplugged internet alternative to the global internet, its government announced. Experts remained concerned about the trend for some countries to dismantle the internet. “It means people will not have access to dialogue about what is going on in their own countrym as they will be kept within their own…
Typhoon Phanfone has killed 16 people already in Philippines, leaving a trail of devastation through the centre of the country with gusts of up to 190km/h ( 118mph) struck, destroying homes and power lines, and flooding is severe in some provinces. With several missing thousands were left stranded as they tried to make their way…
Veronica Duque, a 43-year-old Spanish school teacher, wore a bodysuit depicting human anatomy for her students to teach them about the subject. “Knowing how hard it’s for kids so young to visualise the disposition of internal organs, I thought it was worth giving it a try” Veronica said and added she found the suit online…
Eighty-three-year-old Pontiff Pope Francis’s Christmas message speaking to thousands of people ushering Christmas during the mass in St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican “ God loves everyone –even the worst of us. You may have mistaken ideas, you may have made a complete mess of things … but the Lord continues to love you. God…
The Queen Elizabeth II will use her Christmas Day message to acknowledge that 2019 has been “quite bumpy” but the path is never “smooth” but “small steps” can heal divisions. It comes after a year of intense political debate over Brexit as well as several personal events affecting the Royal Family. Her husband the Duke…