Winston Churchill’s four-inch Cuban cigar stub was rescued from an ashtray in 1947 by a British airman Corporal William Alan Turner, whose crew flew Churchill and his wife, and preserved it till today has sold for $12,000 ( £9,045) in an online auction. The wartime prime minister smoke the cigar at Paris’ Le Bourget airport…
A 50-year-old Rolex Oyster Perpetual Submariner wristwatch with orange numerals, which survived falling into a cement mixer has been sold for £230,000, reaching a new UK record. It was originally tipped to fetch only about £8,000, but the timepiece, bought by its previous owner in 1965, sold for £230k. The Italian collector who outbid his…
Google is to use 30 solar-powered internet-transmitting balloons to restore emergency phone reception to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of hurricane Maria. According to the US Federal Communications Commission, 83 per cent of phone towers, are out of service, with communications companies trying to install temporary masts. The Google balloons which travel on the edge…
A huge explosion in an underground car park following a massive fire at Sindika market, a Moscow construction market, which triggered the evacuation of over three thousand if people as Structures started to collapse. About a hundred firefighters assisted by three helicopters battled the blaze. The fire spread over 592, 000 square feet, as plumes of…
A man was dragged from a black Toyota Prius Plus and arrested after his car mounts pavement outside London’s Natural History Museum injuring 11 people. The car mounted the pavement before ploughing into two other vehicles, hitting innocent pedestrians as they made their way to the museum, Security guards appeared on the scene and dragged…
The rise of Big Tech and the fall of the fourth estate, and its effects on democracy. Franklin Foer, a former editor of US political magazine the New Republic, highlights the Tech Company’s monopoly power and its ability to influence election outcomes and its capture of our brain space, and all this have become…
Kazuo Ishiguro (62) OBE FRSA FRSL, the Nagasaki born British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer, who explores “what you have to forget to survive”, has been awarded the 2017 Nobel Literature prize, after the controversy last year when it honoured Bob Dylan, the US singer-songwriter, who initially declined to acknowledge the honour and did…
On Friday September 29th at London’s Mayfair Hotel, hosted by Raindance’s Founder Elliot Grove the awards were announced for this year’s festival – the 25th which included Leicester Square’s Vue cinema as one of its venues. Over 200 countries submitted films – including features, shorts, webfest, UR and music videos. British filmmaker Guy Ritchie received…