Crackdown on the use of cryptocurrencies which have soared this year by Chinese regulators triggered chaotic trading in cryptocurrency markets. Bitcoin’s prices tumbled by 30 per cent with frequent rapid lurches lower, before clawing back its losses to less than 8 per cent. Ethereum, one of best performing cryptocurrencies in the past month, lost quarter…
Nineteen people have already died and seventy seven people are missing after a barge off the coast of the Indian City of Mumbai sank amid Tauktae storm. The Indian Navy said it had rescued 184 of the 261 people aboard. Thirty five people have also been rescued from another of the three other commercial barges…
Review of “The Father” by Penny Nair Price. Sir Anthony Hopkins received the Best Actor Award at the 93rd Academy Awards for his portrayal of Anthony – a retired man going through the struggles of old age and dementia. At 83, he is the oldest actor ever to win this accolade. “The Father” – formerly…
President Donald Trump declared “ The United States brought the world’s number one terrorist leader to justice”. After a 2018 raid by US special forces which resulted in the death of Abu Bakr al- Baghdadi, the leader of Isis. Abu Ali al-Basri’s mole within Isis who had provided information that lead to the attack. Margaret…
Suzanne Simard, the ecologist who first discovered the hidden language of trees and shares the secrets of a lifetime spent uncovering startling truths about trees and their cooperation, healing capacity, memory, wisdom and sentience. Professor Simard, raised in the forests of British Columbia, where her family lived for generations, did not set out to be…
Private investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman, is neither a Rothschild, a JP Morgan nor a Goldman Sachs. In Inside Money, acclaimed historian, commentator, and former Financial executive Zachary Karabell, offers the first full and frank look inside the institution against the backdrop of American history and explores Brown Brothers Harriman’s central role in the story…
Bob Marley Legendary reggae singer Bob Marely with hits including No Woman No Cry, Redemption Song, and Buffalo Soldier died of acral lentiginous melanoma cancer in Miami, aged 36, on 11 May 1981. He was buried in his Jamaican birthplace of the village Nine Mile. In May 1983 Buffalo Soldier reached number four in UK…
A 25-year-old Malian woman Halima Cisse has given birth to nine babies ( nonuplets) in Morocco. “ I am very happy, My wife and the babies ( five girls and four boys) are doing well,” the proud father said. Halima Cisse beat a woman who had eight babies in the US in 2009, two sets…
Coronavirus has been detected in Asiatic lions in India for the first time as eight lions housed at Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad tested positive for the virus. “They have been isolated and responding well to treatment, behaving and eating normally.” The Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change said and added the zoo has…
Trains were delayed after cows galloped along railway lines through Nuneaton station just before 11:00. Network Rail halted trains while the cows were safely moved away. Trains resumed their journey after about an hour and Network Rail said they had spoken to a farmer about not letting his cattle loose on the railway again;