EasyJet faces losses of more than £800m this year as it was expecting to fly at just 25 per cent capacity into next year because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The annual loss will be the first in EasyJet’s 25-year history. Johan Lundgren EasyJet CEO said: “Aviation continues to face the most severe threat in history…
A team of researchers from the University of Edinburgh has discovered a new species of toothless two-fingered dinosaur that lived more than 68 million years ago. The animals had a toothless beak similar to the type seen in parrots. Multiple complete skeletons of the new species named Oksoko avarsan were dug up in the Gobi…
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to French researcher Emmanuelle Charpentier and American biochemist Jennifer A Doudna for developing the tools to edit DNA. The duo discovered one of gene technology’s sharpest tools, the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors, a way of making specific and precise changes to the DNA contained in living cells.…
A US House of Representatives panel in its report said Facebook, Apple, Google, and Amazon used “killer acquisitions” to crush rivals and forced the small businesses into “oppressive contracts” for profit. The 449-page report also suggested expensive charges to antitrust law and recommended structural changes in tech firms. All four tech giants disagreed with…
Amid the Coronavirus pandemic, the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer. The wealth of the world’s 2,189 billionaires soared to $8 trillion ($10.2 trillion) in July breaking the previous record of £7 trillion ($8.9tn) at the end of 2019. The latest report “Riding the Storm” by Swiss bank UBS and accounting…
An Orange Canadian lobster belived to be “one in 30 million” has been saved from the pot by Steve Atkinson in a delivery to his shop in Fleetwood, and sent to live out days in an aquarium. Steve Atkinson called the Sea Life Blackpool after spotting the apricot-hued crustacean. Scott Blacker, Sea Life Curator in…
A Hairdressing Story. A Saturn Herald Very Short Story by Penny Nair Price. She went to the new hairdressers – the one by her bus-stop where the owner kept nipping outside for a fag whilst she was waiting for the number 60. Sometimes she would be having a quick drag herself when the bus pulled…
The Swiss city of Geneva is to introduce a minimum wage of 23 Swiss Francs ( £19,31 / $25) per hour in the Western canton and makes it the fourth Swiss canton to have approved a minimum wage believed to be the highest minimum wage in the world. According to Swiss government data, 58…
Roberto Saviano is an Italian like a fusion of Salman Rushdie and James Ellroy Savage. Just like Rushdie after the Iranian Fatwa, Saviano lives under police protection, as a result of death threats issued against him following the publication of the first Gumarrah in 2006 which sold over 10million copies globally and adapted into a…
Superpowers have always dominated their region by exerting an outsize an overbearing influence like China’s involvement in Southeast Asia, US looms over Latin America, Russia treat ex-Soviet States as its “near abroad”, creating unease among its smaller neighbours. The stunning growth of China has although yanked up the region’s economies, but its militarisation of the…