Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera both aged under 30, at MGM’s animation department had worked 80 years ago and struggled to emulate the success of other studios who had hit characters like Porky Pig and Mickey Mouse to come with a cartoon cat sick of annoying mouse living in his home, devices a plot to…
A play which makes most peoples’ complex lives by comparison seem somehow happily mundane! On McQuillan’s Hill by Joseph Crilly The English premiere at The Finborough Theatre, Kensington. This production supports CALM – The Campaign Against Living Miserably. 4 Feb – 29 Feb inclusive. No shows on Mondays. Tues to Sat 7.30. Sat and Sun…
The auto industry is moving beyond internal combustion engines or self-driving software, the brains for fleets of robot vehicles, Elon Musk’s Tesla has become a key supplier of batteries and electric power trains. Tesla’s share price culminated in an electrifying 48 per cent leap during the first two trading sessions of this week. From a…
The Philharmonic Dining Rooms, an opulent pub in Liverpool once praised by Bill Bryson for its ornate toilets built between 1898 and 1900 is the first purpose-built Victorian pub in England to be given Grade 1 status, by Historic England. Four of eight pubs in the country known to have no actual bar. Former Beatles…
Twitter crossed $1bn in quarterly revenue for the first time in the final three months of 2019 shocking Wall Street estimates and sending Twitter stocks soaring by 18 per cent in early trading yesterday in New York. Mr. Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, insisted although he was planning to spend as much as six months…
Dr. Li Wenliang, the Chinese doctor who tried to warn about the coronavirus outbreak, has died after contracting the virus while treating patients in Wuhan, which has sparked public anger and grief in China. Last December he sent a message to fellow medics warning of a virus he thought looked like Sars – a global…
Kirk Douglas, Hollywood legend, stage and screen actor spanning 6 decades had died aged 103. Hi s 1960 classic Spartacus, in which he played the titular character won him for Oscars. Kirk Douglas was born Issur Danelovich Demsky in the city of Amsterdan , New York State, in 1916, to penniless Jewish immigrants he got…
President Donald Trump has been cleared in his impeachment trail, ending congressional bid to oust him from office that divided the US. IN an historic vote on Wednesday, The Senate, run by Fellow Republicans, voted to acquit him 52-48 on charges of abuse of power and 53-47 on obstruction of Congress and decided…
Pegasus Airlines passenger plane carrying 171 passengers and six crew was landing in heavy rain after flying in from the western province of Izmir, has skidded off the runway at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport in Turkey and broken into three prices, injuring 21 people. Cahit Turhan, the Transport Minister said no-one died in the incident.…
Goldman Sachs struck a deal with Amazon to offer small business loans to its US customers as the Wall Street Bank is turning to big tech companies to extend its push on to the high street. Goldman has begun building technology to facilitate loan offers to small and medium-sized companies over the online retailers’ landing…