Activists seeking to legalise cannabis in Israel dropped via a drone several hundreds of packets of the drug in Tel Aviv after they promised free marijuana on social media. Passers-by managed to collect a few of the bags before police arrived according to the Maariv News website. The footage showed people walking through busy traffic…
Eight gold bars seized from a passenger attempting to smuggle the treasures onto a flight by hiding them in a lunchbox are set to be auctioned on Thursday. The ingots weighed 35lbs (16kg) worth £75t0, 000- was seized in November 2018 at Manchester Airport by HMTRC officers. The airline passenger did not face prosecution…
Annual rankings of global broadband speed based on 557 million tests conducted across 221 countries and compiled by Cable.co.uk showed it typically takes twice as long as to download a film in the UK than the average for Western Europe, as the UK has fallen 13 places to 47th, down from 34th a year ago.…
According to Mishra the West gave the world colonialism, destruction and slavery as half a millennium of dominance is now closing and is sinking under the weight of its greed and hypocrisy. Decades of violence and chaos have generated a political and intellectual hysteria ranging from imperial atavism to paranoia about invading or hectically breeding…
Stand up Paddleboaring through the heart of Richmond after getting a brief lesson on how to get on, stand up and paddle before setting off along the historic Thames river, paddling under one of the London’s oldest bridges, around small islands and alongside local wildlife. The paddling was easy as the boards were stable, experience…
KFC says it is halting its “Finger-Lickin’ Good” amid the coronavirus pandemic. “ We find ourselves in a unique situation- having an iconic slogan that doesn’t quite fit in the current environment,” the company said given the current hygiene advice. It’s packing with the phrase obscured and said the phrase would return when the time…
Indian Icon Mahatma Gandhi’s pair of gold-plated glasses have sold in Britain for £260, 000 after being found hanging in the letterbox of a Bristol auction house. Mahatma Gandhi gave the glasses worn by him to the vendor’s uncle while he was working for British Petroleum in South Africa during the 1920s or 30s said…
America’s most iconic corporation General Electric suffered a swift and sudden fall from grace for top managers. GE’s reputation with investors rested on the preternaturally smooth earnings growth, buttressed by the financial operations of GE Capital, which Welch had expanded. Welch’s tough managerial approach, including ruthless pruning of underperformers earned him the nickname he hated…
Thomas Rid, a German born political scientist who is now professor at the John Hopkins, a renowned expert on technology and national security traces the revelatory and dramatic history of misinformation, reveals the rise of secret deception operations from the interwar period to contemporary internet troll farms. “We live in a age of disinformation –…
Vitoria Mario set up an online fundraising page showing how she has lived in the UK for four years after moving from Portugal. She is not eligible for maintenance loans or grants. Singer Taylor Swift has donated £23, 000 to Vitoria who was struggling to raise funds to take up a maths course at the…