Mini balls in USA save water supplies

Twenty Thousand black shade balls were splashed into the water in a  175-acre reservoir in a Los Angeles Reservoir to save water and comply with US environmental  regulations on safe drinking water, and culmination of  an initiative  involving deployment of 96 million  plastic balls  at a cost of  £22.43 million,$34.5million to protect the water supply…

Tianjin massive explosion kills 50 and injures 550

A monstrous massive explosion hit China’s northern port city Tianjin home to 15million people, a major port and industrial area to the South East of Chinese capital Beijing, killing 50 people including 12 firefighters and another 36 missing, injuring 800. The first explosion about 23:30 ( 16:30 GMT) was followed by another seconds later. According to…

Smash hit musical Hamilton headed for London from New York

Hamilton already has greats including The Obamas and Paul McCartney going ga ga over how good it is, and now Cameron Mackintosh is bringing it from Broadway to London with advance ticket sales of £25m known to have been generated in the USA.  A host of other glitterati in America have previewed Hamilton and so there…

Poachers prosecuted in India

The forest department’s vigilance probe team at Athirapally Kerala, India, have obtained proof to establish that two elephants were poached, targeted for their tusks by ivory-seeking poachers. The probe team identified the carcass of two elephants on the Karimbani-Athirapally Range. Till now, 8 elephants were poached for their tusks. The main accused in the elephant poaching…

Flying hotel owner tycoon fined

Kieth Richardson 76, the owner of the Richardson Hotels group whose properties include The Fowey Hotel in Fowey, The Metropole in Padstow and the Grand Hotel and The Grosvenor hotel in Torquay, who travels between his hotels by helicopter has been fined £3, 000.00 and costs of £1,104 by the Bodmin magistrates court in Truro,…

IRIS – portrait of a lady with style……

  PRESENTING  WORlDWIDE COLLECTIONS FOR ARMCHAIR ENJOYMENT. Being ageist is something most of us frown upon but pointing out that Iris Apfel subject to this interesting docufilm about her life, is now 94 and her husband Carl is 100 does seem reasonable. One of Iris’s trademarks is her goggle – like glasses – huge cylindrical…

Spanish Talgo trains to speed up Mumbai-Delhi rail travel

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has given an in-principle go ahead for Madrid-based locomotive-maker to undertake trail runs of its lighter and faster trains that could cut the journey time from Mumbai to Delhi from 17 hours to 12 hours without changing India’s ageing rail tracks. Talgo in July 2015, stated its intention to ship…

Birthday party turns violent

Police in Riot gear and police helicopter was drafted in after officers were attacked by hundreds of masked party goers at a 14 year birthday party at a block of flats at in Stoke Newington, East London Borough of Hackney, which got out of control. Police had their cars blocked as around 400 people threw…

Crowdfunding used to pay for breast implants

Crazier ideas have been conceived in the Las Vegas party scene. A 2005 web site, “my Freeimplants.com” which allows women to crowdfund their own breast enhancements. It seems men around the world will always lend a lady a helping hand especially when boobs are involved. Breast implants where thousands of women have met their financial…