Carnival goes flocked to the streets of West London for the first Notting Hill Carnival since 2019. Millions attended to watch performers and steel bands entertaining the crowds. Singer Alexandra Burke joined the Utopia Band who wore breast pumps under their costumes as part of the “Pump On Parade” campaign to tackle taboos about breastfeeding…
A climate Catastrophe has led to at least 1, 136 deaths according to the UN and has affected more than 30 million people which equates to one in seven Pakistanis. On 28 August, Pakistan’s military rescued a boy who was stranded in the middle of a heavily-flooded stream. Antonio-Guterres urged the world to come to…
The former USSR president, Mikhail Gorbachev who opened up the USSR and brought the cold war to a peaceful end, but failed to prevent its collapse in 1991 died aged 91. Gorbachev, as the youngest member of the ruling council known as the Politburo, took over in 1985, with his reformist policies for the…
27 Aug 2022 Test Match Series – Day 3 of 5 at Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester England Vs South Africa South Africa won the toss and decided to bat. South Africa 151 ao off 53.2ov, Petersen 21 off 29, 3 fours, Rabada 36 off 72, 2 fours, Anderson 3-32, Broad 3037, Stokes 2-17, Leach 1-11,…
. Aman Resort’s Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York has huge rooms, kilos of gold leaf, and is the epitome of luxury. A couple of blocks south of Central Park, the Fifth Avenue hotel opened on August 11, occupying floors seven to 14 of the 30-storey Crown Building, a 1921 landmark at 730 Fifth Avenue.…
Pearson, a British industrialist, had done a deal with the anti-American government of Mexico for a 50-year oil concession that covered much of the state of Veracruz, a 1839 feet ( 558 meters ) Dos Bocas well exploded into a broiling fountain of oil that rose 1000 feet into the air. Keith Fisher’s new book…
Over the past decades, the US and India have had several diplomatic ties. But Russia and India have long been friends too, with a relationship forged during the cold war and sustained by steady trade in energy and weapons, dealing with Indian Rupees rather than US Dollars. West is frustrated at India’s response to the…
26 Aug 2022 Test Match Series – Day 2 of 5 at Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester England Vs South Africa South Africa won the toss and decided to bat. South Africa 151 ao off 53.2ov, Petersen 21 off 29, 3 fours, Rabada 36 off 72, 2 fours, Anderson 3-32, Broad 3037, Stokes 2-17, Leach 1-11,…
25 Aug 2022 Test Match Series – Day 1 of 5 at Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester England Vs South Africa South Africa won the toss and decided to bat. South Africa 151 ao off 53.2ov, Petersen 21 off 29, 3 fours, Rabada 36 off 72, 2 fours, Anderson 3-32, Broad 3037, Stokes 2-17, Leach 1-11,…