MPs have voted for Theresa May’s government to continue, rejecting Labour’s motion of no confidence by 325 votes to 306 and majority of 19 in support for Theresa May’s government. 314 Conservative MPs, DUP 10 and one Independent voted against the motion while 251 Labour, 35 SNP, 11 Lib Dem, 4 Plaid, 1 green and…
London Art Fair Islington 16-20 January 2019 – A host of works to feast your eyes on and also to add to your collection. This Art Fair puts London on the map right at the beginning of the year with an impressive array of work to appeal to every taste and covering more…
Theresa May’s deal has been crushed by an alliance of her critics who is bitterly divided. Tomorrow , an official vote of no confidence in her government being mounted by the Labour party a legal attempt to push the government to collapse into a general election. However, Mrs May is expected to win the confidence…
For several centuries beverages differed significantly compared to the vodka of today invented in the 8th century, as the spirit at that time had a different flavour, colour and smell and was used originally as medicine, as it contained very little alcohol about 14 per cent, as this amount can be attained by natural fermentation.…
US government continues to wage feckless war on cannabis, technology entrepreneurs like Socrates Rosenfeld was thinking about drugs, alcohol and money while his MIT Sloan School of Management class mates were filling up worksheets on discounted cash flows. Eighteen months after obtaining an MBA, he abandoned a job with McKInsey to launch a start up…
Amazon, the online giant was worth $797bn (£634bn) when the US stock market closed on Monday after rising 3.4 per cent and moved past Microsoft valued at $789bn. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, is the world’s wealthiest man, with riches of $135 bn according the latest Bloomberg’s billionaire index. Amazon started in 1994, in…
30 people have been killed and seven injured in a gold mine collapse in Kohistan district of Badaksham province, north-eastern Afghanistan bordering Tajikistan, China and Pakistan. Badakhastan is prone to landslides as in the winter heavy snow blankets cover the hilly mountains. Villagers dug a 60-metre (200 feet) deep shaft in a riverbed to search…
A large section of a Russian high-rise building in the industrial city of Magnitogorsk collapsed after the black killing 39. The ministry declared end of the search operations by hundreds of rescue workers on January 3rd, more than three days after the explosion on New Year’s Eve which sent a section of the 10-storey building…
Britsol-Myers Squibb, the US drugmaker has created one of the largest pharmaceutical deals in history by agreeing to buy Celgene in a cash- and-stock d3eal valuing the rival drugmaker at about $90bn including debt. This latest deal would create a world leader in oncology, with nine drugs that each generate more than $1bn in…
WhatsApp has streamlined its new payments function via the messaging app service to become the quickest way to take orders from small business customers and is the easiest way to take their payments in India. Since May 2018, over 1 million Indians have been testing a new payments function in the messaging app, which is…