Media Billionaire Sir David Barclay, the co-owner of the Daily Telegraph newspaper, has died aged 86. Sir David, with his twin brother Sir Frederick, built up a business empire spanning hotels, retail, and media. The brothers had an estimated wealth of £7bn according to Sunday Times Rich List 2020. Born in Hammersmith, west London, in1934, …
Aurora, the Northern Lights sometimes referred to as Polar lights (Aurora Borealis_seen from Brae in Shetland appears as waves of light in the magnetosphere caused by the solar wind. The disturbances are sometimes strong enough to alter the trajectories of charged atoms in the Earth’s high-altitude atmosphere collide with energetic charged particles from the sun…
Brazilian Samba singer Teresa Cristina, from Rio De Janeiro, is performing every night on her Instagram page at 10:00pm local time, amid Pandemic deaths pass 203, 617 with over 8.1million infected.
The Sriwijaya Airplane flight SJ182 with 63 people on board which resumed commercial flight on 22 December 2020, but crashed into the Java sea on Saturday had passed an airworthiness inspection only last month according to officials. Primary findings reveal the aircraft was still functioning and intact before it crashed. Indonesian police have identified its…
Japan has been hit by severe snowstorms, killing at least eight people bringing the country o a standstill. The snowfall in the Hokuriku region is more than double the average expected for this time of the year. Spain’s capital Madrid has been one of the worst affected areas, as temperatures plunged to -8˚C(18˚F) in…
Third Test, Sydney Cricket Ground Australia 338ao off 105.4ov, Smith 131 off 226, 16 fours, Labuschagne 91 off 196, 11 fours, Jadeja 4-62, Bumrah 2-66, Saini 2-65 Australia 2nd Innings 312-6 dec off 87ov ( Green 84 off 132, 8 fours, 4 sixes, Smith 81 off 167, 8 fours, 1 six, Paine 39 off 52,…
IN 2020, 28 fastest days were recorded, with Earth completing its rotations around its axis milliseconds quicker than average, according to scientists. The shortest day was July 19, when the earth completed on spin 1. 4602 milliseconds faster than 86, 400 seconds. Before 2020, the shortest day was noted on July 5, 2005, when the…
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The Indonesian Sriwijaya Air jet SJY182 carrying 62 people, departed from Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport at 14:36 local time (7:36 GMT) on Saturday disappeared from radars four minutes into its 90-minute journey to Pontianak in West Kalimantan province west of the island of Borneo. Sriwijaya Air founded in 2003, is a local budget airline which…
John Gray’s Feline Philosophy, is a collection of quotes from great thinkers about their furry companions. `Gray agrees with honourable tradition of philosophers who are paradoxically suspicious of philosophical thoughts. Some consider philosophy is a symptom of mental disorder. The best philosophy is one that cures itself, leaving nothing to philosophise about and the world…