Mexico’s president Andrės Manuel Lōpez Obrador has formally apologised to the indigenous Mayan people for abuses committed against them over the five centuries since the Spanish conquest. He focused on the 1847-1901 Caste War revolt in which around 250, 000 Mayan people are believed to have lost their lives. Mexico is due to hold legislative…
Several train carriages plunged to the ground crushing at least one car killing 24 people and dozens injured after a metro overpass collapsed at around 22:00 local time on Monday (03:00 GMT) near the Olivos station on the metro’s Line 12, in the south-east of the city, in Mexico City while a train was travelling…
Ronilza Johnson 46, from Britain, has died in hospital after a Brazilian botched bum lift operation which costt her £1, 194 believed to have been injected with polymethyl methacrylate – known as PMMA, the plastic compound resin which is also used to make shatterproof windows. It can cause blood clots or infections if accidentally injected…
The fee to apply for a gender recognition certificate has been cut from £140 to £5, according to Liz Truss Equalities Minister who said she was making the process fairer, simpler, and more affordable as part of the efforts to ensure transgender people are free to live and prosper in modern Britain. Elizabeth Mary Truss, known…
Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole (20) was going home after work, died trying to save a woman from the Thames has been nominated for a bravery award that has been given previously to Alexander I of Russia and Bran Stoker. Olubunmi-Adewole popularly known as Jimi was on his way from work at a restaurant on April 23, when…
The turmoil of the Russian Revolution brought the formula for a fragrance, which had been created for the 300th anniversary of the Romanovs, to France. German academic specialising in Russian history, Karl Schlögel writes “In the beginning was a scent – a somewhat sweet, heavy aroma” that once filled the air on festive occasions in…
Lazenby Court in Covent Garden used to lead a small courtyard surrounded by houses, but the rebuilding of the area in the 1860s to extend Hart Street now renamed Floral Street. The narrow passage and the famous Lamb and Flag Pub. In Tudor times, when all around here were still fields, the building is actually…
It is predicted by 2030, there will be 20 million electric cars on European roads alone. While Electric vehicles may be carbon neutral during their working lifetime, what happens when they run out of the road. In 10 to 15 years when there are large numbers coming to the end of their life it is…
A 13 inch 17-century bronze ostrich sculpture has been sold for £1.8m produced by Renaissance sculptor Glambologna owned by 17-th century politician and writer Horaxe Walpole . It was sold to John Dunn-Gardner ,The self-styled Earl of Leicester, in 1842 f9or £50 and eight shilling equal to £3, 000 today, and it has stayed in…