In the recent US presidential Television debate, Donald Trump’s oneliner was ” China ate your lunch Joe” against challenger Joe Biden. According to Trump’s view, China is a global villain that has visited a “Plague” upon the world while stealing US jobs and intellectual properties, Biden for his part has called XI Jinping, China’s leader, a…
Month: October 2020
The octopuses are soft-bodied eight-limbed mollusc of the order of Octopoda with over 300 recognised species and grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish, and nautiloids. The global species from the Western Atlantic, eastern Atlantic extends from the Mediterranean Sea and the Southern coast of England to Senegal in Africa, including the Azores, Canary…
A wild 15-year-old elephant was fed with firecracker-filled pineapple by an unknown assailant, as it entered a nearby village to forage for food last month in a remote valley in the Attappadi forest in South India. Indian wildlife officials are mourning the death of a pregnant wild elephant after the pineapple exploded in her mouth.…
Facebook-owned WhatsApp messaging platform has rolled out a new feature to allow its users from today to mute both individual and group chats forever. Previously WhatsApp offered three options under the Mute tab – 8 hours, 1 week, or 1 year. The app has now replaced the 1-year option with “Always”.
Picures by Laurence Nair British Airways 747G0CIVW , BA1978R, today at 2:!56pm retired after it landed at Dunsfold Aerodrome arriving from Cardiff airport, to start its new life as a TV and Film set prop.. The Boeing 747-236B with a full Boeing 747 cockpit, first class Business Class and economy seating all in great condition,…
Residents of the town named Asbestos in the Canadian province of Quebec have voted to rename their community in amove to distance it from the extremely poisonous mineral linked to lung cancer. The town was home to one of the world’s largest asbestos mines, voted 51.5 per cent in favour of changing its name to…
FATES FINGER – A Saturn Herald Short Story by Penny Nair Price October 2020 Look out for the film! There were two big newspaper empires in London when Anastasia reached the age of 21. The two empires were managed by men – two opposing publishing tycoons – who were poles apart politically. For her special…
Hatice Cengiz, a Turkish citizen and the fiancée of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent critic of Saudi government, has filed a lawsuit in Washington DC, against Saudi Arabia’s crown prince accusing him of ordering the killing, and pursuing Mohammed bin Salman and more than 20 others for unspecified damages. Khashoggi was killed by…
Heathrow Airport Terminals 2 and 5, begin mandatory coronavirus rapid testing including a raid saliva swab known as a Lamp (Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification) test for passengers travelling to Hong Kong on Tuesday before checking in costing £80 with result guaranteed within an hour. The aim is to help people travelling to destinations where proof…