Even amid the cold war and its terrifying moments in the past, there were flashes of humanity and examples of mutual appreciation. In 1964, Marlene Dietrich accompanied by Burt Bacharach and a band of Soviet musicians featured a near-nude beaded dress worn under white fur. Her opening night was given standing ovation by 1, 500…
Premier League Manchester United 3 Tottenham Hotspur 2 Cristiano Ronaldo 12’, 38’, 81’. Kane 35’ pen, Maguire 72’og Ronaldo’s first Manchester United hat-trick since 2008 ( 14 years) earned his club a 3-2 win and took his overall career goal to 807 which breaks a world record for goals scored, after passing Czech-Austrian Josef Bican’s…
University of Manchester biochemistry Professor Andrew Doig provides an eye-opening portrait of death throughout history, looking at infectious diseases, genetic disease, violence, and diet, who they affected, and the people who made it possible to overthrow them. We also hear about the long and torturous story of the discovery of vitamin C and its role…
Wheat that travelled along the rivers, between ports, and across seas show how cheap American grain toppled the world’s largest empires. In Oceans of Grain, University of Georgia academic Scott Reynolds Nelson reveals how the struggle to dominate these routes transformed the balance of world power. Imperial Russia in the early nineteenth century fed much of…
McDonald’s said it was temporarily closing all its 847 restaurants in Russia and 100 restaurants in Ukraine but continued to pay its staff, which contributed an annual revenue of $2 billion. Burger King’s President and CEO Chris Kempczinski also confirmed it would continue to pay its 62, 000 Russian workers but said “ Our values…
https://youtu.be/HxgXpmGwQw4 The devastating impact of war on isolated communities is based on real events and reflects on the scars traumas can leave on both an individual and community. On a fateful night in a small village in the Outer Hebrides a young beautiful woman, a bookworm dreaming of life out of the gender expectations of…
The International Women’s Day on 8th March, join UN women and the world in coming together under the theme Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow”. We now understand the vital link between gender, social equity, and climate change and recognize that without gender equality today, a sustainable future, an equal future, remains out of…
McDonald’s and Coca Cola are very complicated multinational businesses, that have been criticised on social media for failing to speak out about the attacks and invasion of Ukraine, and continuing to operate in the country. Coca-Cola even has bottling plants in Russia and is not easy to pull out of Russia. Netflix and Levi’s have…
Many old and elderly although they are mentally alert but suffer agonies coping with vagaries of online banking are ill-served online by British banks. Some instructions are ambiguous or contain the usual jargon, and carrying out a simple task often requires multiple attempts, and gets more frustrated. To ask for help on the telephone could…
China revealed a growth target of 5.5 per cent, its lowest in three decades. Beijing seeks to boost its economy after a sharp loss of momentum in 2021 and fallout from the Ukraine war. However, Beijing maintains its strict Covid measures, enforces its common prosperity policy to reduce inequality while boosting party control over the…