An Orange Canadian lobster belived to be “one in 30 million” has been saved from the pot by Steve Atkinson in a delivery to his shop in Fleetwood, and sent to live out days in an aquarium. Steve Atkinson called the Sea Life Blackpool after spotting the apricot-hued crustacean. Scott Blacker, Sea Life Curator in…
A Hairdressing Story. A Saturn Herald Very Short Story by Penny Nair Price. She went to the new hairdressers – the one by her bus-stop where the owner kept nipping outside for a fag whilst she was waiting for the number 60. Sometimes she would be having a quick drag herself when the bus pulled…
The Swiss city of Geneva is to introduce a minimum wage of 23 Swiss Francs ( £19,31 / $25) per hour in the Western canton and makes it the fourth Swiss canton to have approved a minimum wage believed to be the highest minimum wage in the world. According to Swiss government data, 58…
Roberto Saviano is an Italian like a fusion of Salman Rushdie and James Ellroy Savage. Just like Rushdie after the Iranian Fatwa, Saviano lives under police protection, as a result of death threats issued against him following the publication of the first Gumarrah in 2006 which sold over 10million copies globally and adapted into a…
Superpowers have always dominated their region by exerting an outsize an overbearing influence like China’s involvement in Southeast Asia, US looms over Latin America, Russia treat ex-Soviet States as its “near abroad”, creating unease among its smaller neighbours. The stunning growth of China has although yanked up the region’s economies, but its militarisation of the…
Megalopolises cities like Chicago where 6 per cent of its inhabitants died of Cholera pandemic in 1854, the outbreak killed 8. 600 in 1892 and the great plague claimed the lives of over 100, 000 for London (a quarter of the population) between1665-1666. Although cities have only ever been inhabited by a tiny minority of…
Dow Jones, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq fell between 1 per cent and 2.2 per cent when trading began on Friday, after Donald Trump tweeted he and his wife had contracted COVID-19. Mr Trump tweeted: “ Tonight FLOTUS (First Lady of the US) I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and…
Fifty-six Indian entrepreneurs who founded various innovative Indian startups conferred on a Zoom Video conference call earlier this week to discuss a range of issues including establishing an alternative to Google Play Store, and set up a startup collective to fight the power of Big Tech and shape digital policy to take into account…
Arathi Raghunath, from Kerala, south India, made a world record at the Universal Record Forum (URF) for completing 350 online courses in three months. Arathi is a second-year MSc Biochemistry student at the MES college. She completed the course offered by State University of New York, University of Virginia and University of Rochester during Covid-19…
In only a matter of months Dogs trained at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine could accurately detect a person with Covid-19 symptoms from a crowd or at ports of entry, and other large gathering like arenas, and football stadiums. In the absence of a credible Covid-19 vaccine, man’s best friend Dog will…