A Japan Airlines ( JAL) Boeing 777 carrying 233 passengers and 15 crewmembers bound for New York was forced to make an emergency landing at Tokyo Haneda International airport after a jet engine burst into flames following a suspected bird strike on Tuesday 12th September 2017. Television footage showed red flame flickering from the left…
Paul McClean, 25, an Oxford University Graduate from Surrey and British journalist for the Financial Times was killed by a crocodile while washing his hands at a lagoon in Sri Lanka during a holiday with friends. He is understood to have to search away from his group of friends to find a toilet when he…
London born Sampha has won the 2017 Mercury Music Prize for his mournful album, Process, written and recorded by his mother Binty, who died of cancer. The song talks about piano in his childhood home, which his mother taught him to play as a child. Sampha dedicated his Mercury Prize to both his parents who…
Santa Clara-based Cyphort, an innovator in the software security space, had raised £ 22.5million ($30 million) in venture funding from investors including Sapphire Ventures, Trinity Ventures, and Matrix Partners. Sunnyvale-based Juniper Networks Inc. has agreed to buy Cyphort Inc., a security software startup run by Manoj Leelaniwas, one of Juniper’s former executives, who previously…
Apple launches its latest range of devices today including three new iPhones, as well as upgrades for the Apple Watch, Apple TV, and AirPod Wireless headphones. The iPhone X, a premium version will feature an all-screen display, facial recognition software, and wireless charging at a record price of £1, 149 ($1, 149). At Apple’s annual launch…
Café-isation of chai has began, as Chai Point, started in 2010 by Harvard alumnus Amuleek Singh Bijral in Bengaluru in India was the first of these Chai startups (Tea) with over a hundred outlets pan-India and serves over 100, 000 cups every day. Chaayos has grown from 7 cafes in 2015, to 40cafes in Delhi,…
Ninety five people have died in Thursday’s 8.1 magnitude devastating earthquake in Mexico, and struck off the coast of Chiapas. Emergency workers are still looking for victims under the rubble. “ They pulled my father out from underneath the rubble after the house collapsed on the top of him. It was difficult to find him…
Nirav Modi, is the first Indian jeweller to have been featured in the cover of Christie’s and Sotheby’s catalogues. He is the creator and designer of the Golconda Lotus necklace featuring a 12.29-carat Golconda diamond, Pink diamonds and exclusive Ainra cut diamonds sold at Christie’s Hong Kong auction in November 2010. In 2012, the…
3rd Test West Indies Tour of England at Lords, London Sep 7-9, 2017 West Indies 123 (57.3 ov) 1st Innings, KOA Powell 39 off 98, SD Hope 29 off 57, JM Anderson 2/31, BA Stokes 6/22 England 1st Innings 194 ( 52.5ov) SCJ Broad 38 off 45, BA Stokes 60 off 74, KAJ Roach…
Maria Sharapova reveals in Unstoppable, her new memoir including how she heard Serena Williams crying. The tears came after their first match, the 2004 Wimbledon Final in which the 17-year-old Russian upsets the defending champion. After the match, Sharapova entered the locker room. “What I heard, When I came in and started to change clothes,…