Ikea the Swedish retailer has recalled two popular glass ceiling lampshades due to safety concerns. The company said 11 customers worldwide had been injured after the glass shades from some of their 2012 models of lock and Hyby lamps had fallen. In a statement the company said: “In a few cases medical treatment was required…
An elephant in South India killed its handler before being tranqulised in the early hours of today. An elephant trampled and gored a mahout Krishnankutty to death after a bystander provoked and hurt the elephant and turned violent at Athanikkal near Thritala, Kerala, south India. The elephant had not taken well to his provoker and…
How a lazy man makes us all feel good? The term “if you want to get ahead get a hat” takes on a fresh meaning with the character Andy Capp made famous by cartoonist Reg Smythe in the Daily Mirror 60 years ago. Andy Capp is everything you would find most irritating and yet tantalisingly…
Nine dead and 100 injured of whom 50 seriously hurt, after two German passenger trains collided head-on near Bad Aibling in the German State of Bavaria 60 miles south-east of Munich. The train operator Meridian said “ a tragic accident occurred on a single track between Rosenheim and Holzkirchen at about 7:00am local time (…
The Final round of the Brazil’s Rio Carnival Samba championship are underway despite threat from Zika virus. Samba is an eclectic blend of music, song and dance styles that Afro-Brazilians brought with them to the impoverished slums surrounding Rio after the abolition of slavery in 1888, became part of Rio Carnival Brazil’s cultural heritage, involving…
Russian chemist and inventor Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, popularly known as the “Father of Periodic Table”, on his 182 birth anniversary. Born on 8th February 1834 in Siberia into a large and well-off family, received a good education at the Institute of Pedagogy and soon after graduation his work in spectroscopy and the capillary action of…
A leopard prowled through a private school near Varthur in Karnataka, south India and was captured on CCTV. The leopard attacked three forest personnel including a veterinarian who was injured near a swimming pool according to the Dr S Boralingaiah, Deputy Commissioner of Police. The big cat was first spotted by CCTV cameras inside the…
Flying Scotsman, the world’s most famous iconic locomotives, the first to reach 100 mph on 30th November 1934, and also set the longest non-stop run by a steam locomotive when it ran 422 miles (679km) on 8th August 1989 while in Australia, has come out of retirement in 1963 after covering 2, 076, 000 miles…
According to The Guardian, Denmark has a new law to strip refugees of cash and valuables. This leaves them worried that they have to rob or beg just to stay alive. The Danish law has enabled police to take cash and valuables above 10,000 kroner from immigrants looking for help and world famous Chinese artist…
Sir Kenneth Corfield, the man behind successful British cameras dies aged 91 on 11th January 2016. For many of us his legacy will be the Periflex camera. Kenneth Corfield, an engineer with an agile eye for technology and his company KG Corfield Ltd which debuted in 1953, an innovative interchangeable-lens 35mm camera with an unusual…