Sarah wins six medals

Sarah Storey claimed her six medals and her 15th Paralympic title on the first day of Paralympic Games 2020 at Tokyo. Storey smashed  her world best by over four seconds in the C55 3, 000 individual pursuit qualifying and in the final caught team-mate Crystal Lane-Wright, who matched her silver medal from Rio in 2016.…

Kenya counting animals

Kenya is conducting the biggest ever animal census to help with its conservation in specific wild life species. For the first time Kenya is counting animals Kenya, home to vulnerable and endangered species that includes lions, giraffes,  hundreds of elephants and the world’s only two surviving northern white Rhino species The East African country is…

England’s favourite department store

    Britain’s favourite retail emporium,  from a modest shopkeeper to the top of the business world and onto changing the British high street forever, Born into poverty, John Lewis was orphaned at the age of seven when his father died in a Somerset workhouse, he as a draper’s apprentice, dreaming of a better life,…

Antwerp’s golden heydays of fortune and wheels of trade

  In 1940, dealers agents  thronged  the then Netherlands port would enclose price lists for goods or loans on the City’s Exchange, the Beurs, along with correspondence to their clients. Pyke captures the intrigue, opportunity, chaos, scandal and nonconformist spirit of the sixteenth century Antwerp with exquisite narrative zeal. A clerk for van den  Molen…

Out of Afghanistan

On Sunday as the Taliban took over Kabul, the capital, the US state department announced that all US embassy staff had been evacuated to Hamid Karzal International Airport which was under US military control. People are scared and think things could go wrong at any moment. The face-covering was mandatory for all women under Taliban…

Indian stuns England and win by 151 runs

England v India, Second Test,  Day 4  at Lords India first innings  364 ao off 126.1ov, Rahul 129 off 250, 12 fours, 1 six, Rohit Sharma 83 off 145, 11 fours, 1 six, Virat Kohli 42 off 103m 3 fours, Rishabh Pant 37 off 56, 5 fours, Ravindra Jadeja  40 off 120, 4 fours, James…

Afghans living under Taliban rule

The Taliban swept into Kabul unopposed on Sunday and have seized the presidential palace with reports that Afghan president Ashraf Ghani has fled the country to Uzbekistan. More than 60 countries have issued a joint statement calling on the Taliban to allow people to leave. The US embassy says all it embassy staff have been…

Attractive gaming caper

https://youtu.be/JORN2hkXLyM Free Guy  starring Ryan Reynolds, Taika Waititi,  (Millie) Jodie Comer and  (Keys) Joe Keery, is an action comedy set in an open-world videogame. Guy  played by Ryan Reynolds, a blue-shirt-wearing bank-teller is shocked when a mysterious stranger shows him that his home town of Free City is actually the setting for a violent open-world…

Tom, the Humanoid designed to Alma’s distinct interests

https://youtu.be/J8eq53SdH1E   Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens plays a precision-tooled robot who could be the answer to a single woman’s prayers in this funniest movie set in Berlin. Academic  and archetypal Alma ( Maren Eggert) in he 40’s  after a messy and complicated breakup with a colleague, entirely devoted to her work,  is persuaded to take…

Sniper’s one last job

Billy Summers  is a sniper who can take deadly headshot at 1, 200  yards. Billy Summers is among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet, a Houdini when it comes to vanishing after the job is done. Billy  Summers learned his craft as a US Marine and honed it in the…