Category: Fashion
Carnival goes flocked to the streets of West London for the first Notting Hill Carnival since 2019. Millions attended to watch performers and steel bands entertaining the crowds. Singer Alexandra Burke joined the Utopia Band who wore breast pumps under their costumes as part of the “Pump On Parade” campaign to tackle taboos about breastfeeding…
A climate Catastrophe has led to at least 1, 136 deaths according to the UN and has affected more than 30 million people which equates to one in seven Pakistanis. On 28 August, Pakistan’s military rescued a boy who was stranded in the middle of a heavily-flooded stream. Antonio-Guterres urged the world to come to…
. Aman Resort’s Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York has huge rooms, kilos of gold leaf, and is the epitome of luxury. A couple of blocks south of Central Park, the Fifth Avenue hotel opened on August 11, occupying floors seven to 14 of the 30-storey Crown Building, a 1921 landmark at 730 Fifth Avenue.…
26 Aug 2022 Test Match Series – Day 2 of 5 at Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester England Vs South Africa South Africa won the toss and decided to bat. South Africa 151 ao off 53.2ov, Petersen 21 off 29, 3 fours, Rabada 36 off 72, 2 fours, Anderson 3-32, Broad 3037, Stokes 2-17, Leach 1-11,…
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) the World’s largest and most powerful space telescope took infrared images of the Solar System’s biggest planet, Jupiter, in July 2022. The images revealed auroras, giant storms, moons, and rings surrounding Jupiter in detail that astronomers have described as “incredible”. Planetary astronomer Imke de Pater of the University of…
The Special Relationship between America and Britain is feted by politicians on both sides of the Atlantic, when it suite their purpose and just as frequently dismissed as a myth, not least by the media, which announces its supposed death on regular basis. The two countries are bound together more closely than either is…
Petroleum has always been used by humans, from time immemorial as a waterproofing agent in Noah’s Ark, as a weapon during the Crusades, and as an adhesive for Neanderthals. Its eventual extraction from the earth in vast quantities transformed into light, heat, and power. A Pipeline Runs Through it, looks at the social, economic, political,…
Jennifer Ziegler’s “Worser” centers a socially awkward, 12-year-old, word-loving boy William Orser, whose life is upended by his single mother’s recent stroke, but finds glimmers of hope when it turns out there are friends to be found who also share his love of wordplay. Worser explores both the beauty and power of words and how…
Baar, Switzerland-based commodities trader Glencore Plc and Geneva-based IXM SA have both ceased it supply of metals to Liaoning, China-based metals merchant Huludao Ruisheng after the disappearance of $500 million in copper. Glencore has transferred some of its existing stock from Qinhuangdao to alternative locations, including Qingdao. A total of 13 Chinese trading firms had…