Following an international outcry, Saudi Arabia has blamed the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi on a “rogue operation”. Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said the murder had been a tremendous mistake and denied the powerful crown prince Mohammed bin Salman had ordered it. “We are determined to find out all the facts and we are determined…
Next time you travel in a transatlantic flight think about the dangerous and delightful substances that flow through our lives, as we all know without water we couldn’t survive and sometimes even a cup of coffee or a glass of wine feels just a vital. Mark Miodownik, in his latest book , Liquid, gives a…
The Washington Post published the final column from journalist Jamal Khashoggi- who was allegedly tortured and killed inside Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul. His piece titled “What the Arab needs most is free expression,” explains the crackdown on journalist in Saudi Arabia and other Middle East Countries. “Arab governments have been given the rein to…
A stunning bride given away by her father Prince Andrew and watched by forty members of the Royal Family including The Queen, Prince Philip, Fergie and sister Beatrice, made the second big Royal Wedding of the year at St Georges Windsor at the cost of £2M, just five months after Prince Harry married another stunning…
Ayurvea therapies and practices, evolved over several millennia, is a system of medicine with historical roots in the Indian Subcontinent. According to Hindu mythology and Sushruta’s compendium, Dhanvantari, Hindu god of Ayurveda, incarnated himself as a king of Varanasi and taught medicine to a group of physicians, including Sushruta. The therapies are based on…
Mount Soputan in North Sulawesi island, Indonesia, started spewing ash and lava 19, 685 feet (6000meteres), five days after Sulawesi was devastated with tsunami and 7.5-magnitude earthquake which killed 1407 people. The officials declared an exclusion zone with 1km of the summit. Indonesia’s Volcanology centre released seismographic data showing 479 mild tremors in Anak Krakatoa’s…
Indonesia’s disaster response agency says the death toll of last Friday’s 7.5-magnitude earthquake and Tsunami has risen to 1350 in the coastal city of Palu just off the central island of Sulawesi. Indonesian Red Cross Officials said they have recovered 34 Indonesian students under a church buried by a mudslide. They were presumed part of…
Raindance 26th London Film Festival There is always room for variations on a theme….. A Fantastic Woman – Academy award winner – best foreign language film. Chilean Retrospective – Spanish with English subtitles. Sebastian Lelio Director. Also, co-starring Aline Kuppenheim and Amparo Noguera. Marina (Daniela Vega) loves Orlando (Francisco Reyes) who is a divorced father…
Indonesia’s Tsunami and earthquake disaster death toll has risen to 832 according to the national disaster mitigation agency and warned the figure could climb higher as the affected area on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is bigger than initially thought. Several people were reported trapped in the rubble of buildings brought down bin the 7.5…
California-born Nafisa Thompson-Spires reveals what it means to be a black American today in her debut short-story collection, and refers to sketches and character profiles of a section of black subjects –of mid-19th century by James McCune Smith, the first African American Physician to hold a medical degree. Thompson-Spires narrates the black life from the…