Boohoo buys Debenhams brand  without the shops or staff for £55m

Boohoo buy Debenhams brand and Website for £ 55m without taking the firm’s remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce. The transformational deal triggers 12, 000 job losses. The 242-year-old Debenhams chain is already in the process of closing down after administrators FRP Advisory failed to secure a rescue deal for the business as…

Joe Root another century 186

  International Test Match Series – Day 1 of 5 at Galle  England lead series 1-0 in two-match series Sri Lanka  vs England Sri Lanka first innings, 381 ao off 139.3 ov, Thirimanne 43 off 95, 5 fours, Mathews 110 off 238, 11 fours, Chandimal 52 off 121, 4 fours, 1six,  Dickwella  92 0ff 144,…

Matthews’s unbeaten century for Sri Lanka

International Test Match Series – Day 1 of 5 at Galle  England lead series 1-0 in two-match series Sri Lanka  vs England Sri Lanka first innings, 229-4 off 87 ov, Thirimanne 43 off 95, 5 fours, Mathews 107no off 228, 11 fours, Chandimal 52 no off 121, 4 fours, 1six, Anderson 3-24, Mark Wood 1-47…

130-car pile-up after Japanese snowstorm, 1killed and injured 10

A huge snowstorm has struck Tohoku Expressway in Miyagi Prefecture, North Japan triggering a 130-car pile-up that killed one and injuring 10 around non (3:00 GMT) on Tuesday. 200 people have been hit by severe snowstorms in the pile-up as rescuers are helping at the scene. Authorities had already enforced a 31-mile (50km) speed limit…

Funeral Temple of Queen Neit

Zahi Hawass, who headed the archaeological mission said “ the Funerary Temple of Queen Neit was discovered near the pyramid of her husband, King Teti of Egypt’s 6th Dynasty which dates back 4300 years” The coffins include the New Kingdom to be found at Saqqara necropolis near the pyramids of Giza, a UNESCO world heritage site…

20-year-old Yan win the Masters by beating John Higgins

World number 11, China’s Yan Bingtao’s fought back stunned John Higgins. He was making his Masters debut at the age of 20 is a year older than Ronnie O’Sullivan when he became the youngest champion by beating John Higgins in the 1995 final. Although Higgins led 5-3 and 7-5, the Sheffield-based player Yan won five…

Navalny arrested on return to Moscow

Alexei Navalny (44), a Putin critic who returned to Moscow from Germany months after a nerve agent attack nearly killing him, was immediately arrested. President Vladimir Putin’s government denies poisoning Mr. Navalny. The US and EU including France, Italy, and the President of the European Council Charles Michel, led calls for Mr. Navalny to be…

England needs 36 runs to win despite Thirimanne scoring 111

International Test Match Series: First Test England vs Sri Lanka at Galle, Sri Lanka won the toss. Sri Lanka 135ao off 46.1ov    Mathew 27 off 54, 1 four, 1 six, Chandimal 28 off 71, 1 four, Bess 5-30, Broad 3-20, Leach 1-55. Sri Lanka 2nd Innings 359ao off 136.5   ov,  K Perera 62 off 109, 5…

Verifying, Identifying and Amplifying new evidence  as history  is filmed by losers on their smartphones

Bellingcat, the home-grown investigative unit, the most innovative practitioners of open-source intelligence and online journalism, self-taught internet sleuths end up solving several mega crimes of our time. Their founder, a high school dropout on a kitchen laptop tells the story of how they created a whole new category of information-gathering galvanising citizen journalists across the…