A fire broke out just after 1 a.m. at the 87-storey Torch Tower, morer than 1 100 foot tall ( 335 meters), the World’s tallest residential skyscraper located in an upscale waterfront district in Dubai’s Marina, heavily populated by expatriates from around the world. Firefighters successfully put out a blaze that erupted the high-rise, forcing…
North America will witness a solar eclipse for the first time in 99 years on August 21st, 2017, where the Moon will pass in front of the Sun casting darkness across the bands of Earth’s surface, and all the three planets become perfectly aligned in once-in-a-lifetime celestial spectacle. The total Solar eclipse will last more…
Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfein, the men running two of Wall Street’s biggest banks saw the value of their shareholdings rise by a combined £242m ($314m) in 2016, as stock market prices rocketed in the aftermath of Donald Trump’ s election victory as US president. The value of their stock and options in JP Morgan…
Shelves of BingoBox outlet in Shanghai are lined with instant noodles, beer and bags of duck neck without any staff. As China’s labour costs are rising and higher than Latin America, the manufacturers are employing robots to production lines and retail China is being more automated. Chen Zilin, BingoBox’s founder, who plans to launch over…
Princes William and Harry have decided to honour her mother, Princess Diana, on the 20th anniversary of their mother’s death. Prince William and Harry bared their souls in a candid and emotional interview they have given about their mother. “ The things I’d have said to her if I knew it was the last time…
Astronomers have detected mysterious radio signals coming from a red dwarf star –Ross 128 (GJ447), 2, 800 times dimmer than the Sun, located 11 light-years from Earth. The signals detected by astronomers at the University of Puerto Rico, in May 2017, using the Arecibo Observatory, a massive 1000-foot-wide (350meters) radio telescope built inside of a…
Salvador Dali’s body is exhumed for DNA tests to settle a paternity case. Samples were taken from the surrealist painter’s teeth, bones and nails in a four-hour operation according to forensic experts. The exhumation followed a court order on behalf of a woman who says her mother had an affair with the painter. The exhumation…
At 01:31 am on Friday (22:31 GMT Thursday) an earthquake with 6.70magnitude hit 7 miles ( 12km) north-east of Kos in the Aegean Sea, near the Turkish coast with a depth of 10km according to US Geological Survey and killed 2 people and injured several hundreds, on the Greek Island of Kos. In the…
Several people had to be rescued in Coverack, following devastating heavy rain that sent 4 feet torrent of water through the Lizard Peninsula of Cornish village. Water swept through the village leaving roads into roads into and out of village impassable. Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service said its crews attended multiple flood-related incidents. A major…
Scores of residents of Grenfell Tower was subjected to electricity power surge as their domestic appliances either malfunctioned, overheated or emitted smoke several years before the disastrous fire, it has emerged. The documents show that 45 of the tower’s 129 flats were affected by a powerful electricity surge on 29 May 2013, despite this the…