Entrepreneur, acclaimed model, actress and global social media phenomenon, Emily Ratajkowski, who has shared her image with the world, at the age of twenty-one, created a furor with her provocative display of her body as an unapologetic statement of feminist empowerment. My Body, a collection of 12 essays, offers lucid examination of mirrors in…
Oxford Nanopore shares closed almost eight per cent higher yesterday after the recently listed University spinout upped the 2022 and 2023 sales forecast for its life sciences unit bolstered by multi-million dollar long tern contract win in the UAE. The Genomics group forecast revenue for the core unit will hit between £170m and £190m in…
Sold-out music festival in at NRG Park, Houston,Texas turned into a “mass casualty death trap” incident and left at least eight people dead and scores of others injured when a crowd surged towards the front stage, squeezing audience members who had nowhere to escape at the event attended by some 50,000 fans of American rapper…
Paxlovid a Covid experimental pill developed by the US company Pfizer cuts the risk of hospitalisation or death in vulnerable adults, according to their clinical trial. Pfizer says it stopped trials early as the initial results were so positive. The UK has already ordered 250, 000 courses of the new Pfizer treatment along with another…
F1 financier Lawrence Stroll who owns Aston Martin Lagonda, the luxury carmaker whose turnaround appear to be picking up speed as its revenues doubled with a little help from 007 James Bond. Aston Martin’s Lagonda played a leading role in new Bond film “ No Time to Die” after the appearance of four of its…
BT ‘s EE and Virgin’s O2 are busy building net generation fibre networks across the UK. Both mobile data and broadband from Virgin Media O2 will double the speed of both at no extra charge, while BT is enticing its customers to double up with 10% off broadband deals for EE customers, leaving a squeeze…
Jes Staley Barclays boss has quit in a shock exit after a probe into his links with sex offender late Jeffrey Epstein. The City watchdog and Bank of England have been investigating if Mr Staley’s relationship to the dead financier was close than first thought. Regulators began investigating after getting a cache of emails…
Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak took advantage of better than expected growth figures as an excuse to splash the cash in his latest budget spending spree. Households are liable to be stung by future tax rises which will hoist the tax burden to the highest level since the 1950s. Rishi Sunak told MPs the higher tax burden…
Facebook has changed its corporate name to Meta as part of a major rebrand and said it would better “encompass” what it does, as it broadens its reach beyond social media into areas like virtual reality (VR). The change does not apply to its individual platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, only the parent…
A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all the US. In 1968 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands of Africa conference brought together the leading figures of African independence in a public show of political strength and purpose. Led by charismatic Kwame Nkrumah, who had just won…