The sale of Durex and other “sexual wellbeing products” rose 12.6 per cent in the last three months, when social-distancing rules were relaxed in the summer, according to its maker Reckitt Benckiser. Sales of Dettol, Cillit Bang, and air fresheners also jumped, helped by workers improving their new home-office environment, as the total group sales…
The US government has formally filed a landmark lawsuit, the biggest challenge brought by US regulators against Google, accusing the company of abusing its dominance to preserve a monopoly over internet searches and online advertising. The Lawsuit follows several years of investigation amid the intense scrutiny of Google’s practices at home and abroad. Google called the…
Juniper Networks acquires BostonTT AI Software Defined Wide Area Networking startup 128 technology for $450m, so that networks can cover a wide geographical area such as satellite offices, rather than a network in a defined space. AI-fuelled networking company Juniper has already acquired last year Mist Systems in March 2019 for $405m. Today, instead of…
The figure of a relaxing cat has been discovered in the Nazca desert in Peru. The Nazca lines, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is home to designs on the ground – known as Geoglyphs – created 2000 years ago. Scientists believe that this cat was created by making depressions in the desert floor leaving…
AS IT’S COMING UP TO CHRISTMAS …..HERE ARE SOME HUMOROUS OBSERVATIONS ABOUT FOOD TO DIGEST ……FOR THOSE OF US WHO ARE MORE “PLUMP” THAN WE’D LIKE TO BE PLEASE DON’T TAKE OFFENCE – I AM ONE OF YOU TOO! PENNY NAIR PRICE. PS In another issue I will give advice about watching one’s calorie intake…
Race, stunt drive, and bestselling author Ben Collins writes a story of spies, speed, and hard-driving genius – a driver’s love letter to one of the world’s best-loved machines. Aston Marin’s first, wickedly fast models were forged at a time when Ferrari’s premises at Maranello was nothing but a ploughed field. The book celebrates…
Ghosts don’t realise they’re dead and wander around screaming because no one is paying them attention. You howl around the corridors of power while the elite march straight through. Rupert Everett tells the story of a soulful and thought-provoking autobiography from one of our best-loved and most talented actors and writer and how he set…
35-year-old Mohammed bin Salman is the pivotal leader of the Arab World, Crown prince who became king in 2015 and de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, ended the House of Saud’s consensual model of an absolute monarchy with no absolute monarch, seizing all the reins of power and urged forward social and economic reform. The…
Leap of Faith – A Saturn Herald Short Story by Penny Nair Price October 2020 Sebastian Roshan stood with his hand crooked into his elbow in very deep thought. He wasn’t sure if he’d misunderstood. His tight white hospital coat fitted like a glove to his knees, and his stethoscope made the outfit completely portraying…