British Airways has been fined £20m ( (26m) by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for a data breach in 2018 which affected over 400, 000 customers both personal and credit cards. The fine is considerably smaller than the £183m that the ICO originally said it intended to issue back in 2019. The incident took place…
Month: October 2020
Andy Green, 53, from Lincolnshire, hit the jackpot in January 2018 playing the Betfred Frankie Dettori Magic Seven Blackjack game from bookmaker Betfred on his smartphone but was refused a payout of £1.7m after his online betting company account was credited with the money is taking his case to the High Court. When he tried…
Millions of Londoners and people from Essex will face tougher Tier2 Covid measures from Saturday, with a ban on households mixing indoors. Under Tier2, households are also barred from mixing in pubs and restaurants and people should aim to reduce the use of public transport, amid Manchester moving to the highest level of Covid restrictions.…
The most important day in 2020 is the global handwashing day, which has never been so critical than now, during the pandemic. Global handwashing day, people are more acquainted with soap than ever before as we wash our hands to help stop the spread of coronavirus and also prevent 1 in 3 diarrheal illness 40…
Sergey Gorshkov’s photograph of a Siberian tiger one of rarest creatures on Earth taken in the deep forests of ‘Russia’s Far East won him the title of Wild Photographer of the Year. The female tiger is seen embracing a tree, rubbing herself up against the bark to leave her scent and mark territory in Leopard…
Apple’s A14 Bionic 64-bit chipset with 11.8 billion transistors is an ARM-based system which performs 30 per cent faster than the A12 Apple new iPhone 12 comprising of the five-nanometre process as the chip’s transistors have been shrunk down the tiny on-off switches are now only about 25 atoms wide allowing billion more to be…
Mennel Ibtissem (22), a French-Syrian singer who became viral on the internet after her 2018 performance of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah on The Voice France, watched over 900, 000 times on YouTube. In one Instagram post, she expressed doubts about the terrorist nature of the 2016 Nice lorry attack. She said the message from the day…
Kiryusha, the seven-year-old German Shepherd was dog injected with a drug and buried alive by its owners managed to dig himself out of his grave in Russia. The dog owners admitted to injecting him with the drug intended to kill him. The owner apologised for his mistake. The dog was spotted by a passing…
Donald Neely, a 44-year-old homeless black man who was led on a rope by two white police officers on horseback is now suing Galveston Police Department, in Texas for £770, 000 ($1m). He was sleeping on the pavement when he was arrested for trespassing, then handcuffed him and led him by rope to a…
British Airways is replacing its CEO Alex Cruz and the new CEO will be Aer Lingus boss Sean Boyle. However, Mr. Cruz will stay on as non-executive chairman for a transition period before Mr. Doyle also takes on the role. In assuming the top job at BA, Doyle follows in the footsteps of another Irish aviation…