Valentina Valdimirovna Tereshkova, Soviet Cosmonaut becomes the first woman to travel into space, after 48 orbits and 71 hours, she returned to earth, having spent more time in space than all the U.S. astronauts combined to that date. Textile worker Valentina born to a peasant family in Maslennikovo, Russia, made her first parachute jump and…
Garbine Muguruza, 23-year-old, Spaniard, beat her “role model” Venus Williams to win her first Wimbledon final. Muguruza, who had failed to reach a final in the 23 tournaments since she won the French Open last year defeated five-time champion Williams 7-5, 6-0 and became the second Spanish woman to win the Wimbledon singles title. Muguruza…
Everybody lies is a fascinating, witty book, blending informed analysis of the signal and the noise and looks into new data sources, dominated by Google, where the author Seth Stephens previously worked. “I am convinced that Google searches are the most important data set ever collected on the human psyche”, he writes. Data provides new…
China’s new Clean Air Act came into effect in March 2017 and this affected the high-end super sports car manufacturers who in the past had been exempt from the Chinese environmental rules that measure whether engines meet emissions limits after clocking up 99.42miles (160km). Aston Martins, Lamborghinis, McLarens and Morgan Motor Company all have a…
A California-based start-up company was able to create a tiny device called TrackR, that works with your smartphone, and could be exactly what you are looking for. Time and again it has proven that California is a veritable gold mine of entrepreneurial talent. The state-of-the-art tracking device the size of a quarter is changing the…
Air Canada Airbus 320, flight AC759 carrying 135 passengers and five crew members, from Toronto was preparing to land at San Francisco airport cleared to land on a runway last Friday, 7th July , 2017, but the pilot inadvertently lined up for a taxiway where four aircraft was waiting to take off. The agile…
Oxford University Medical researchers have developed a sensitive test to identify people at high risk of a heart attack or stroke by scanning their blood vessels, a method known as fat attenuation index or FAI, which identifies people whose blood vessels have fatty deposits or “plaques” that are in charge of breaking off and causing…
Former President of Brazil Lula Inacio Lual Da Silva has been sentenced to nine years and six months’ jail for corruption. He ruled Brazil between 2003 to 2010, was accused of accepting favours form construction companies in exchange for helping them secure business with government companies. However, he will remain free pending an appeal. He…
The InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland , situated beside a man-made lake and houses a music arena and Wedding hall and has 15 floors below ground level, with two to offer rooms with saltwater aquarium costing about £390m ($500m) which is scheduled to completed later this year. The hotel is also attached to a theme park…
Pearson is set to raise £780m ($1bn) from the sale of a 22 per cent stake in Penguin Random House to co-owner German media mogul Bertelsmann, which would reinforce German media group’s global domination of world of book publishing. Pearson Education is a British-owned education publishing and assessment service to schools, corporations and students. Over…