The 10th edition of an International award that celebrates the work of emerging and established photographers. All profits from entry fees is donated to the Lavender Trust at Breast Cancer Care. Hometown of Robert Frank, Wipkingen, Zurich ( Finalist: single image in Life Category) Photograph: John MacLean Enrique ( Winner Single image in Identity…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said its board “voted well in excess of the required two-thirds majority” to expel Harvey Weinstein following numerous allegations of sexual assault made against the film producer. Weinstein’s films have received more than 300 Oscar nominations and won 81. In a statement the Academy said “not simply…
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…