More than 5.9 million hectares (14.7m acres) are affected in the forest fires in Australia and the Queen has sent a message of sympathy and support to the country as at least 24 people have died and more than 1,300 houses have been destroyed. Other countries assisting in fighting the fires includes the US, Canada…
Lebanon confirmed it had received an international wanted warrant notice from Interpol for the sixty-five-year-old ex-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn, who has French, Lebanese and Brazilian citizenship. Interpol’s red notices are used to request law enforcement agencies to arrest a fugitive. Ghosn was facing trial in April on financial misconduct charges, which he denies before he…
In London thousands of people lined the Thames as over 12, 000 fireworks lit up the capital’s skyline, as revellers across UK have ushered in the start of the new decade. Edinburgh hosted the UK’s “biggest street party” for a Hogmanay party. Firework also lit up Manchester, Cardiff, Newcastle, Inverness and Nottingham skyline. Big…
Zojila pass One of Asia’s longest tunnel 14km long, the $1bn Zojila tunnel, linking the fertile Kashmir Valley with the deserts of high-altitude Ladakh, providing a vital supply corridor for India’s armed forces, and economic lifeline to locals cut off by snow in the winter and a boom to tourists visiting the region’s mountain peaks.…
Typhoon Phanfone has killed 16 people already in Philippines, leaving a trail of devastation through the centre of the country with gusts of up to 190km/h ( 118mph) struck, destroying homes and power lines, and flooding is severe in some provinces. With several missing thousands were left stranded as they tried to make their way…
Eighty-three-year-old Pontiff Pope Francis’s Christmas message speaking to thousands of people ushering Christmas during the mass in St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican “ God loves everyone –even the worst of us. You may have mistaken ideas, you may have made a complete mess of things … but the Lord continues to love you. God…
The Queen Elizabeth II will use her Christmas Day message to acknowledge that 2019 has been “quite bumpy” but the path is never “smooth” but “small steps” can heal divisions. It comes after a year of intense political debate over Brexit as well as several personal events affecting the Royal Family. Her husband the Duke…
The Lloyd’s building, City Of London also known as the “Inside-out building” completed in 1986. Highlights architectural Bowellism. Battersea Power station now sold to Malaysian developed to turn into residential apartments this iconic South West London landmark and decommissioned coal-fired power station is an evocative Grade II listed building. The Egypitan-esque building the famours Hoover…
MPs have backed Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan for the UK to leave the EU on 31 January 2020 by 358 votes to 234, a majority of 124, which now goes on to further scrutiny in Parliament. The bill would also ban an extension of the transition period –during which the UK is out of…
International Rights Advocates (IRA), a human rights group in class action lawsuit has claimed Apple, Google, Microsoft, Dell, and Tesla have all “aided and abetted” a supply chain for cobalt metal critical for smartphones and electric vehicles that forces children to work in dangerous conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo. “Apple, Alphabet, Dell, Microsoft,…