John Lewis closing 8 more shops

The John Lewis Partnership is closing eight more stores permanently, with the chain’s bigger, older shops though to be most at risk, including two small travel hubs at Heathrow Airport and St Pancras Station and leave only 34 stores down from its current total of 42. In some cases, John Lewis may close a store…

Tracking Viking ventures

Cat Jarman, a Scandinavian bioarchaeologist based in Britain who did her PhD on the Repton Charnel, with cutting edge forensic techniques for research, uncovers the Viking Age and takes us to a small “Carnelian” bead found in a Viking grave in Derbyshire to its origins thousands of miles to the East in Gujarat. By examining…

United 777 despite engine failure landed safely with no injuries

United Airlines flight 328, Boeing 777, plane bound for Honolulu, suffered an engine failure but returned safely to Denver airport. The jet carrying 231 passengers and 19 crew on board, was able to do an emergency landing at Denver airport, without any injuries. Police in the town of Broomfield posted pictures of  front of an…

How to strip mind of a male

Tabitha Lasley spends six months in Aberdeen interviewing 103 men who work on offshore oil rigs to hunt down old-school masculinity. In the process, she has an affair with the first one Caden, but the result Is acidic, addictive reporting with some fiction. Lesley summons up Aberdeen a city made up of Louisiana avarice and…

Fruit vendor stabs a cow  in the abdomen for eating his papaya

  A fruit vendor in Raigad, Maharashtra, India, was arrested for allegedly stabbing a cow after the bovine ate papaya from his cart. As per local police who acted after receiving a complaint from the cow owner,  the arrested accused, identified as Taufiq Bashir Mujawar, stabbed the cow in its abdomen and limbs in a…

Power to Optimise our DNA

Walter Isaacson’s famous biographer of Steve Jobs, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, and Ben Franklin discusses the life, career, and ethical implications of scientist Jennifer Doudna, cocreator or CRISPR and the 2020 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. New technology has the power to optimise our DNA, transform medicine, and allow us to cure…

Perseverance lands on Mars

Perseverance rover lands on Mars and sends new images of Mars  released  by NASA.   NASA’ Perseverance rover two meters above the surface of Mars as it gave more details of the mission. The US S4ace agency’s robot successfully landed on Mars just before  1pm local time on Thursday.e

Three volcanoes erupting

Gautemala says that three of its most active volcano are erupting at the same time, after a huge rumble and a belch of steam and rocks erupting out of the crater of the volcano. Gautemala’s Pacaya   and Fuego volcanoes  are erupting a vast lava field plummets towards the valley floor and in the distance the…