Orly Lobel, a professor of law at the University of San Diego, traces back to Barbie, the blonde bombshell’s roots to Bild Lilli, a sexually suggestive German toy made for adults. In 1959 Mattel, founded by Ruth and Elliot Handler, Launched a successor for American girls and named after their daughter Barbara. Soon Barbie captured…
Shantou the Southern China city born, Pony Ma, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Tencent, the world’s sixth-biggest tech company which is Facebook, Apple Pay, Spotify, gaming and reading rolled into one, which last year generated $23bn revenue and has world’s biggest chunk of data, in China despite government surveillance. Ma’s Tencent Holdings ranks among China’s largest…
An inflatable huge balloon floating over Oxford Circus was hung for testing ahead of the annual Lumiere light festival but has hung 60 mph winds, wobbled and almost fell on shoppers. One woman was hurt when she was hit by a cable as it became partially untethered. Transport for London, was forced to shut…
World’s most expensive vodka at £960,000 $ 1.3m has been found empty on a construction site according to Danish police. The bottle made from gold and silver and with a diamond encrusted cap was on loan to a Café 33 Copenhagen bar which had a collection of vodkas on display. According to the bar…
Classic car 1950s Jaguar D-Type is listed for sale at auction for £9 million, sold by Ex- F1 supremo and legendary motorsport mogul Bernie Ecclestone on January 18, 2018, by Sotheby. In the 1920s as a young car dealer, he shifted the 170mph D-type for just £3,500. This model is now one of the world’s most…
A truck towing two trailers, was crossing a level crossing between Hennenman and Kroonstad in South Africa’s Free State at about 9:15am local time (11:145am GMT) when a train carrying over 400 passengers travelling from Port Elizabeth to Johannesburg, crashed on to it killing 18 and injuring 260 people. Several carriages burst into flames and…
A MIG-28K fighter jet the Indian Navy overshot the runway at Goa Dabolim airport in Vasco, India and crashed today. The pilot a trainee, safely escaped by removing the canopy. The airport located inside the naval base INS Hansa resumed after a brief disruption with some flights being delayed. The fighter aircraft failed to take off…
A fifty-year-old Ryan air Polish national passenger, fed up with waiting to leave a plane in Spain, took the emergency exit and was waiting on the wing with his hand luggage down before perching on the wing’s edge. His flight FR8164 from Stanstead London to Malaga on New Year’s Day had been delayed one hour on…
India will launch 31 satellites, on 10th January 2018, which includes an earth observation spacecraft Cartosat from Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradesh, South India. The rocket is schedule to be launched at 9:30am IST 4:00GMT. The 28 satellites from the US and the five other countries and one nano and micro satellite from India besides…
The UK has welcomed in the new year with spectacular firework displays with over 10, 000 fireworks lit up the sky in every colour, as part of a 12-minute display with London eye as the centrepiece. Big Ben chimed to welcome in 2018 after been turned back on part way the restoration work. London Ambulance…