Andy Green, 53, from Lincolnshire, hit the jackpot in January 2018 playing the Betfred Frankie Dettori Magic Seven Blackjack game from bookmaker Betfred on his smartphone but was refused a payout of £1.7m after his online betting company account was credited with the money is taking his case to the High Court. When he tried…
Sergey Gorshkov’s photograph of a Siberian tiger one of rarest creatures on Earth taken in the deep forests of ‘Russia’s Far East won him the title of Wild Photographer of the Year. The female tiger is seen embracing a tree, rubbing herself up against the bark to leave her scent and mark territory in Leopard…
Mennel Ibtissem (22), a French-Syrian singer who became viral on the internet after her 2018 performance of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah on The Voice France, watched over 900, 000 times on YouTube. In one Instagram post, she expressed doubts about the terrorist nature of the 2016 Nice lorry attack. She said the message from the day…
British Airways is replacing its CEO Alex Cruz and the new CEO will be Aer Lingus boss Sean Boyle. However, Mr. Cruz will stay on as non-executive chairman for a transition period before Mr. Doyle also takes on the role. In assuming the top job at BA, Doyle follows in the footsteps of another Irish aviation…
A 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton, nicknamed Stan after the paleontologist who discovered it in 1987m sold for £25m ($31.8m) at an auction in New York. The sale set a new world record for any dinosaur fossil ever sold at an auction. Standing 13 feet tall and 40 feet long, Stan is one of the most…
The World Bank in its report said as much as 150 million people are likely to be in extreme poverty because of the Covid-19 pandemic by 2021. “Countries will have to prepare for a different economy post-COVID-19 by allowing capital, labour, skills, and innovation to move into new business sectors,” World Bank Group said further.…
EasyJet faces losses of more than £800m this year as it was expecting to fly at just 25 per cent capacity into next year because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The annual loss will be the first in EasyJet’s 25-year history. Johan Lundgren EasyJet CEO said: “Aviation continues to face the most severe threat in history…
A US House of Representatives panel in its report said Facebook, Apple, Google, and Amazon used “killer acquisitions” to crush rivals and forced the small businesses into “oppressive contracts” for profit. The 449-page report also suggested expensive charges to antitrust law and recommended structural changes in tech firms. All four tech giants disagreed with…
Amid the Coronavirus pandemic, the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer. The wealth of the world’s 2,189 billionaires soared to $8 trillion ($10.2 trillion) in July breaking the previous record of £7 trillion ($8.9tn) at the end of 2019. The latest report “Riding the Storm” by Swiss bank UBS and accounting…
The Swiss city of Geneva is to introduce a minimum wage of 23 Swiss Francs ( £19,31 / $25) per hour in the Western canton and makes it the fourth Swiss canton to have approved a minimum wage believed to be the highest minimum wage in the world. According to Swiss government data, 58…