Robert Maxwell, the media mogul, and former MP made a triumphant entrance into Manhattan harbour aboard his yacht. The Lady Ghislaine, to complete his purchase of the ailing New York Daily News in February 1991. But ten months later, Maxwell disappeared from the same yacht off the Canary Islands, only to be found dead in…
For centuries clothing has been a wearable status symbol, fashion, a weapon in struggles for social change; and dress codes, a way to maintain political control. A Woman in London, wear embroidered velvet boots, hair not seen a brush for days, and deconstructed jackets, while in America women wear sleek Armani or Donna Karan suit,…
Keats “vertiginous originality” as explained by Lucasta Miller. Keats was trained as a doctor when he was 24 when he read his doom ( “my death warrant: I must die”) in a handkerchief spotted with bright arterial blood, John Keats died 200 years ago, aged 25, as his lungs were already so ravaged by Tuberculosis…
Canadian actor Christopher Plummer, best known for his role as Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music has died peacefully at his home in Connecticut at the age of 91, with his wife Elaine Taylor at his side. He was nominated for the film The Last Station in 2010, and All the Money in…
Fancy having a surname Hedges-Stocks who had been inadvertently seen 40 million times on Twitter. Zoe has been inundated with thousands of requests for financial advice and trading tips after people misinterpreted her surname. Zoah Hedges-Stocks, a 31-year-old writer from Leiston, Suffolk, stated on Twitter hers was “ not a finance account” and did “not…
Qualcomm, which makes processors and modem that power any of the leading smartphones and other consumer gadgets, what the resurgent car industry was facing called “ Chipageddon.” When the supplies run short, it halts manufacturing chips, as gamers struggled to buy new graphic cards, Apple had to stagger the release of its iPhones 12 Pro…
Two tiny lizards, one male Brookesia nana, or nano-chameleon a body of just 13.5mm, with its length from top to tail only 22mm, the other female 29mm were discovered by a German-Madagascan expedition team in Madagascar. This makes the smallest of about 11, 500 known species of reptiles according to the Bavarian State Collection of…
International Test Match Series Bangladesh vs West Indies at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong. Bangladesh First Innings 430 ao off 150.2ov, Shadman 59 off 154, 6 fours, Mushfiqur 38 off 69, 5fours, Shakib 68 off 150, 5 fours, Das 38 off 67m 6 fours, Mehedi Hasan 103 off 168, 13 fours, Warrican 4-133, Cornwall 2-114,…
International Test Match Series Pakistan vs South Africa at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi. Pakistan 272 ao off 114.3 ov , Babar 77 of 127, 12 fours, Alam 45 off 155, 5 fours, Faheem 78 no off 160, 12 fours, Nortje 5-56, Maharaj 3-90 South Africa 48/2 (10ov) Elgar 15 off 21, 3 fours, Markram 15…
International Test Match Series England Vs India at M A Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai. England 263-3 off 89.3ov Root 128 off 197, 14 fours, 1 six, Sibley 87 off 286, 12 fours, Burmrah 2-40, R Ashwin 1-68. England won the toss and decided to bat. The England Skipper Root was unbeaten on 128 at stumps although…