Ten people were evacuated and were forced to leave the surrounding homes after two-storey house in West Hampstead, Sumatra Road, North West London, collapsed from the roof to basement level. This dramatic scene highlighted the arrogance of property developers in an affluent area where properties fetch over £1 million, as the entire building collapsed into…
City Trillion USD Trillion GBP New York $3.00 £2.16 London $2.70 £1.94 Tokyo $2.50 £1.80 San Francisco Bay Area $2.30 £1.66 Beijing $2.20 £1.58 Shanghai $2.00 £1.44 Los Angeles $1.40 £1.01 Hong Kong $1.30 £0.94 Sydney $1.00 £0.72 Singapore $1.00 £0.72 Chicago $0.99 £0.71 Mumbai $0.95 £0.68 Toronto $0.94 £0.68 Frankfurt $0.91 £0.66 Paris $0.86…
American Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, received first of his then-record 2,332 patents including 1093 US patents, for an “Electrographic Vote-Recorder”, at the age of 21, which was never used. When presented to the Congress Committee, its chairman said: ” If there are any invention on earth that we don’t want down here that is it…
Tokyo-based Green Display Co has settled a lawsuit by paying ¥76 million $700,000 to the the family of the deceased former employee who died in car accident caused by exhaustion. 24-year-old, Kota Watanabe, was killed in a road accident while riding his motorbike home from an overnight shift in 2014, and struck a utility pole.…
The Saratov Airlines, An-148 from Russia, en route to the city of Orsk in the Ural Mountains, has crashed after taking-off from Moscow’s Domodedovo airport with 65 passengers and six crew on board. The airlines vanished minutes after take-off and crashed near Argunovo, about 50miles ( 80km) sout-east of Moscow. There are reported to be no…
The San Francisco-based host of TV show Bloomberg Technology, Emily Chang’s Brotopia offers an important examination of why technology industry is so dominated by men – and how women are pushing back, and have gone from whispering about sexism in the Valley to yelling about it. Chang’s journey to the memory lane and history of…
Singapore-based Broadcom has offered to pay US chipmaker Qualcomm £5.76bn ($8bn) if regulators block its £105bn ($146bn) takeover bid for the company, which could be the second biggest break fee in history. The $8bn fee represents about 6.6 per cent of the deal’s $121bn equity value. Qualcomm’s decision to give Hock Tan, the acquisitive chief…
Simon Fox, CEO of Trinity Mirror, the owner of Mirror newspaper group has bought Daily Express, Daily Star, OK magazine for £200m from Richard Desmond. Trinity Mirror paid £126.7m for Brexit supporting newspaper titles. The company also agreed to invest £70.4m in staff pension schemes through to 2027. The company’s shares surged 15% in early…
Dan Middleton also known as DanTDM, a 26-year-old from Aldershot, started off making videos of himself playing Minecraft and Pokeman. Little he did know then, he got more than 16 million subscribers and has more than 10 billion views of all his videos. Although he did not feature in the top ten list last year,…
Renzo Piano, the architect of the Shard, Western Europe’s tallest building, the engineering feats are revealed by the inspirational female engineer Roma Agrawal, who looks at how construction has evolved from the mud huts of our ancestors to skyscrapers of steel that reach several hundreds of meters into the sky. She reveals how engineers have…