Ritz Hotel in London have been targeted by scammers posing as hotel staff to steal payment card details. The scammers were extremely convincing when they phoned with accurate details of their restaurant bookings, asking them to confirm card details . Thye then tried to spend thousands of pounds at the catalogue retailer Argos. According to Ritz,…
Month: August 2020
In May Octogenarian Rawandan businessman Felicien Kabuga was arrested in Paris after 25-year of manhunt, he is finally in custody accused of bankrolling the worsyty atrocities since the Khmer Rouge: the Rwandan genocide. Melvern as a journalist encountered several leading genocides in Rwanda in the terrible summer of 1994 when 800, 000 people were slaughtered…
Matt Ridley, reveals the vital ingredients for success by chronicling the history of innovation and how we need to change our thinking. We experience dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society From Britain to Brazil, world economy is choking in first gear as we indefinitely await a vaccine, having…
The UK government has signed a deal for a further 90 million coronavirus vaccine with the Belgian Pharmaceutical company Janssen and the US biotech company Novavax. This brings the tally of UK orders for six experimental vaccines to 340 million doses including 100 million doses of Adenovirus vaccines by Oxford University/ AstraZeneca, 30…
Shiekh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, also known as FAZZA, refused to use his Mercedes G-wagon SUV after doves built a nest on its windscreen. He shared a time-lapse video of the doves helping the chicks out of the eggs. On social media which had over one million hits in less than 24…
A passenger train derailed in Aberdeenshire killing three, the driver, conductor, and a passenger, six peopled were rushed to nearby hospitals, but their injuries are not believed to be severe. The train hit a landslide after heavy rain and thunderstorms which caused flooding and travel disruption across Scotland. Thirty emergency services were rushed to the…
The UK economy suffered its worst and biggest slump on record between April and June due to coronavirus lockdown measures, shrinking as much as 20.4 per cent compared with the first three months of the year. The UK is officially into recession. Household spending plunged as shops were ordered to close, while factory and construction…
Former FTSE 100 company has damaged reputations of London and the UAE. The Abu Dhabi based hospital operator BR Shetty (77) set up healthcare provider NMC in 1975, after emigrating to the United Arab Emirates from his native India, He created an emerging market company with a seductive pitch to investors and a charismatic founder…
French designer Anne Sophie Cochevelou has been designing extravagant face coverings adorned with anything she can find from the Barbies to Pokeman toys. She wants to inspire people to get more fun and creative with their masks.
There have been over 20.3m cases of COVID-19 around the world and 739, 428 deaths with the US suffering from more than 5m cases, 3m in Brazil, and 2m in India. # Country, Total New Total New Total Active Serious, Tot Cases/ Deaths/ Total Tests/ Population Other Cases Cases Deaths Deaths Recovered Cases Critical 1M…