A Tokyo court sentenced US Special Forces veteran Michael Taylor for two years in prison and is son Peter for one year and eight months for their role in ex-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn’s escape from Japan in 2019, after the pair were extradited from the US over claims they smuggled Mr Ghosn out of Japan…
Lewis Hamilton, his 8th win, overcomes a 10-second penalty for a crash with the rival Max Verstappen to pass Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and claimed a dramatic British Grand Prix victory in front of 140, 000 crowd. Hamilton blamed the collision with Verstappen’s Red Bull at Copse corner on the first lap of the race, which…
This is the story of jeans from cotton plant nested in the soil to the flares hanging in your wardrobes. A revealing book about the birth and death of jeans that exposes the fractures of our global supply chains, and our relationships to each other, ourselves and the planet. Did you buy your jeans on…
StHumans rely on plants to change consciousness to stimulate calm, or completely after the qualities of our mental experience. Michael Pollen explores three very different drugs – Opium, caffeine and mescaline and throws the fundamental strangeness of our thinking about them into sharp relief, exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around…
Grifters came to be called visionaries and high finance lost its mind. In 2001, charismatic Adam Neumann arrived in New York, the land of opportunities, after five years as a conscript in the Israeli navy, he transformed himself into the charismatic CEO of WeWork worth $ 47bn, within the span of 15 years. His long…
Only in New York you can indulge in gold dusted French fries. Serendipty3 in Manhattan, New York recently made it to the Guinness World Records by cooking up the ultimate cheesy French fries – Crème de la Crème Pomme Frites valued at $200 USD, by creative chef Joe Calderone, and Corporate executive chef. Fredrick Schoen-Kiewert…
Johnson & Johnson announced voluntary recall of five aerosol sunscreens due to low levels of Benzene, which can cause cancer with repeated exposure. The company issued a statement announcing a voluntary recall and urged customers to discard the products if they had already purchased them. The Neutrogena aerosol sunscreens that have been recalled are…
The worst flooding in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany and Belgium killed 92 people with several more missing, after record rainfall which caused major river banks to burst their banks. Maly Dreyer, chief of Germany’s Rhineland-Palatinate state called the flooding “ catastrophic”. At least 19 people died in the Ahrweiler…
Nany-state scheme would cost shoppers £4.8billion a year according to John O’Connell head of the Taxpayer’s alliance who said “ This is yet another case of middle-class meddling that will hit the poorest families hardest”. The processed food market is valued £200 billion and the food and drink service sector is close to 70 billion.…
