Appearances can be deceptive

The death and loss of a child is the ultimate devastating tragedy and make parental bereavement difficult to resolve. A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in homespun threadbare suit, disembarked a train in Boston, and walked without an appointment into the President’s office of Harvard University, a private Ivy league…

Tories laid the foundations for the housing crisis

The slum clearances of the late nineteenth century as Boughton asks why the state’s duty to house its people decently became central to our politics. He also shows how the loss of the dream of good housing for all is a danger for the whole of society – as was seen in the fire in…

“Roseanne” cancelled after star’s racist Twitter rage

The eponymous Star of ABC’s hit show Roseanne revival, Roseanne Cherrie Barr has received major backlash after tweeting a racially charged comment directed towards Obama’s former adviser Valerie Jarrett who is African American. She Subsequently deleted the tweet and apologized after becoming a trending topic on Twitter and getting shamed by celebrities throughout the day.…

England where dreams come true

Rachel Meghan Markle who was better known as Meghan Rachel Markle, now Duchess of Sussex and wife of Prince Harry, actress in “Suits” filmed in Toronto and star of many other productions, came to London when she was 15 with her friend and family for a typical tourist holiday. Pictured here outside Buckingham Palace with…

Climbing down the death stairs

Ally Law a 21-year-old YouTube personality notorious for performing Parkour stunts and doing free solo climbing on a range o buildings including  18 floor M by Montcalm Hotel in  London. He and a group of friends stay the entire night in various commercial premises. He has been addicted to a video game since the age…

How India’s opposition secures a win by unity

In politics, a week is too long, is proved wrong, as India’s struggling political opposition won a rare victory at the weekend when Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party failed to muster enough support to form the local government in the south Indian state of Karnataka. BJP leader BS Yeddyurappa, who was sworn…

Kilauea’s lava erupts and injures one person

Hawaii lava finally reaches the Pacific and acid from Kilauea’s lava, called “Laze” crossed the Hawaii highways to reach the ocean. Major routes are blocked off by lava streams as the first serious causality was reported during fresh eruptions, as a man sitting on a balcony at his home was hit on the shin by…

Mothercare to close 50 stores with 800 job losses

Mothercare, the baby products retailer has confirmed it is closing 50 stores as part of a rescue plan that will put 800 jobs at risk, and the closures will leave only 78 outlets in the UK by 2020. Initially, Mothercare, who hasn’t made a profit since 2012,  planned to have 92 outlets by 2023, and…

Paddy Power Betfair in talks to buy Fanduel

Paddy Power Betfair is in talks to acquire FanDuel a fantasy sports site, in order to capitalise on the lifting of a federal ban on sports betting across the US. The UK and Ireland based FTSE100 gambling group said with New Jersey among those expected to enact legislation within weeks the US gambling market could…

Dame Tessa Howell died aged 70

Ex-Labour cabinet minister Dame Tessa Jowell, who was diagnosed with brain cancer in May last year, has died aged 70 on Saturday. Ex-PM Tony Blair said she left an “enormous” legacy as “everything she touched turned into gold in some way, whether it was advancing equal pay for women, starting Sure Start, which is an…