Russia has successfully tested a country-wide unplugged internet alternative to the global internet, its government announced. Experts remained concerned about the trend for some countries to dismantle the internet. “It means people will not have access to dialogue about what is going on in their own countrym as they will be kept within their own…
Typhoon Phanfone has killed 16 people already in Philippines, leaving a trail of devastation through the centre of the country with gusts of up to 190km/h ( 118mph) struck, destroying homes and power lines, and flooding is severe in some provinces. With several missing thousands were left stranded as they tried to make their way…
Veronica Duque, a 43-year-old Spanish school teacher, wore a bodysuit depicting human anatomy for her students to teach them about the subject. “Knowing how hard it’s for kids so young to visualise the disposition of internal organs, I thought it was worth giving it a try” Veronica said and added she found the suit online…
Eighty-three-year-old Pontiff Pope Francis’s Christmas message speaking to thousands of people ushering Christmas during the mass in St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican “ God loves everyone –even the worst of us. You may have mistaken ideas, you may have made a complete mess of things … but the Lord continues to love you. God…
The Queen Elizabeth II will use her Christmas Day message to acknowledge that 2019 has been “quite bumpy” but the path is never “smooth” but “small steps” can heal divisions. It comes after a year of intense political debate over Brexit as well as several personal events affecting the Royal Family. Her husband the Duke…
TikTok, the Chinese owned app, which has amassed over 1billion monthly users in three years, had build teams to moderate its streams of viral videos amid concerns that users are being expose to the kind of toxic content that has plagued YouTube and Facebook. TikTok will outsource decisions on what videos are acceptable to teams…
Dennis Mullenburg CEO of Boeing has been replaced after he repeatedly failed to gain control of the crisis that followed the fatal crashes of two of its 737 MAX jets. Mr David Calhoun a board director for the past decade who replaced Mr Mullenburg as chairman two months ago, will take the helm from mid-January,…
THE PERFECT WAY TO GET OUT AND ABOUT AND JOIN THE ARTISTIC ELITE documented in the wonderful “Art London” a new book on the scene. This neat little book is a wonderful guide to all things Art mainly in London. I have been to some of the Art Fairs referred to on page 8 and…
The modern liberalism since 1843, The Economist has been the single most devoted and influential champion of liberalism anywhere in the world. Today, neither economic crisis at home nor permanent warfare abroad, has dimmed the Economist’s belief in unfettered markets, limited government and a free hand for the West. The history of liberalism is on…
The year is 1964, in Ceylon, Jay and Kairo have debut meeting, “ I needed a guide, a hero, illumination, Jay, I now know, needed an acolyte” says Kairo, the narrator of the book, when Ceylon is on the brink of change with schools closed, the government in disarray, the press is under threat and…