After 20 months of grounding globally in March 2019, commercial passenger flights have resumed on Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft for the first time, after Brazilian airline Gol resumed operations using the plane. The American company’s previously bestselling airplane was given the approval to return to the skies by US regulators US Federal Aviation Administration (FDA)…
A helicopter Eurocopter EC135 owned by Service Aerien Francais, a private company carrying out a rescue mission has crashed and fell from an altitude of 1, 800 metres ( 5, 900ft) in the French Alps, near the town of Bonvillard in the Savoir area killing five of the six people on board. The alarm was…
A British government report published in March provisionally estimated the UK carbon emissions in 2019 to be 351.5 million tonnes. The traffic created by the road is expected to generate 3.2 million tonnes over 60 years. The Lower Thames crossing (LTC) the UK’s biggest roads project since the M25, a flagship project in the UK’s…
Ellen Page, Oscar-nominated star of Juno has announced that he is transgender introducing himself as Elliot Page in a social media post. The Canadian-born actor said he could not “begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self. I love that I am trans. And…
Thousands of people have fled Indonesia’s Ile Lewotolok volcano area after it erupted and spewed smoke and poisonous gas into the atmosphere. Authorities have warned people to avoid lava streams and poisonous gases. Indonesia has the world’s most active volcanos. Lewotolo volcano in the Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia erupted at 9:45 local time this morning…
Snapchat has launched its vertically scrollable video section “Spotlight” in 11 nations where users are able to view videos posted by other uses. The spotlight will have its own dedicated tab in the app and will feature videos, with background music, up to 60 seconds. Snaps from private accounts will be featured in an unattributed…
A former competition lawyer telling us after the collapse of the Rana Plaza clothing factory in Bangladesh in 2013 after driven by competition to cut costs and maximise profits quite literally may kill us. The rising levels of power are concentrated in the hands of a few yet no government or organisation has the…
David Dinkins, the first and only black Mayor of New York City has died of natural causes aged 93. Born in New Jersey in 1927, David Dinkins who studied at Howard University and Brooklyn Law School is the son of a barber. He later went on to serve as the city’s mayor from 1990 to…
A highly provocative book by an Indian academic who is the Associate Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen, revealing how India is being repackaged into a national brand to be sold to foreign investors, part of ongoing historical shift. “The capitalist transformation of India wherein the logic of capital is…
International Men’s Day, an annual event celebrated on the 19th of November, in 44 countries including Antigua, Australia, Barbados, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Jamaica, Singapore, China, United States, UK, Romania, and Malta. Inaugurated in 1992 on 7 February by Thomas Oaster was re-initialized in 1999 in Trinidad and Tobago. The longest-running celebration of International Men’s…