An illuminating exploration of the atomic age through the history of six nuclear disasters by the best-selling historian, a Ukrainian now teaching at Harvard, Serhii Polkhy. In 2011, a 43-foot-high tsunami crashed into a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, the explosions would rip buildings apart three reactors would go into nuclear meltdown, and classified…
Month: April 2022
Katie Taylor (35) and seven-weight world champion, Amanda Serrano (33) meet in a historic fight for women’s boxing at Madison Square Garden in New York on Saturday 30th April 2022. A 116-year ban on women boxing in the amateurs had been lifted two years previously, but a lengthy court case forced the board to license…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who owns more than 15 per cent of the company, has sold roughly £6.8bn ($8.5bn) worth of shares in the electric car maker just days after he agreed to buy Twitter, triggering a sharp 20 % fall in Tesla shares wiping out $21bn of the carmaker’ stock market value, earlier this…
A chilling tale of the helpless and isolated individuals victimised by a well-funded organisation, and of the lengths to which those running such organisations are prepared to go to cover up their mistakes. Nick Wallis’s revealing tale of the suffering inflicted on blameless individuals seeking to make an honest living in their small shops…
Queen Elizabeth II is celebrating her 96th birthday by honoring her late husband, Prince Philip, and her lifelong love of horses. The Royal Windsor Horse show released a new birthday portrait of the Queen captured by renowned landscape photographer Henry Dallal who has previously photographed the queen with her horses. The portrait reveals Her Majesty…
Boris Johnson’s two-day flying visit to India to enhance the proposed free trade agreement, defence ties, and boost cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, arrived in Ahmedabad in the early hours of today and visited Sabarmati Ashram. Boris Johnson’s message in Sabarmati Ashram visitors’ book: “It is an immense privilege to come to the Ashram of this…
Dubbed versions of Hollywood films like Spiderman and Batman have worked with audiences across India. Award-winning Indian actor Rasika Dugal, starring in Delhi Crime on Netflix, Lord Curzon Ki Haveli, and Amazon Prime video Mirzapur, a crime thriller series said “Never had more work, or been recognised more often. The coming of streaming platforms…
https://youtu.be/sNE_dqkmLF0 The world’s longest car finally has been restored and is ready to cruise as of March 1, 2022. The super limo rolled in at a length of 30.54 meters ( 100 ft and 1.50in) breaking its 1986 record by the smallest fraction. First built in Burbank, California in 1986 by Jay Ohrberg, a noted…
LoReal reported an enormous sales growth across their Loreal portfolio which includes Elvive and Revitalift which hit €9.6 billion(£7.5 billion) up from €7.6 billion (£6.3 billion) a year prior, clocking up of 13.5 per cent in the first quarter despite the cost of living crisis. Nicolas Hieronimus CEO said shopping patterns had been “unaffected by…