Pope Francis has greeted pilgrims at the Fatima shrine in Portugal, where he plan plans to make two shepherd children -Jacinta and Francisco Marto -saints on Saturday. The Pope arrived at a military airbase north of Lisbon with more than a million pilgrims are expected at Fatima as it is 100 years since the two…
Toshiba issued a strongest warning to date in a legal battle over whether its right to sell its $20m chip business is restricted by the terms of its joint venture with Western Digital. The sale of Toshiba’s extremely profitable Nand Chip making business is at the centre of efforts to shore up the finances of…
Apple’s stocks hit new heights with their market value breaking through $800bn for the first time in the US. Apple reached $802.46bn compared to $508.25bn on 9th May 2016. Investors relaxed as volatility evaporates. S&P 500 zooms past 2400.20 compared to 2058.69 on May9th 2016 and European equities closing at the highest level in nearly…
The UK law says that all demolition, dismantling and structural alterations should be carefully planned and carried out competent practitioners. Principal designers must plan, manager, monitor and coordinate health and safety issues in the pre-construction phase to allow the principal contractor to keep people as far as possible from the risks.
Johnson & Johnson has been ordered by a US court to pay more than £85m ($110m) to Los Slemp (62) from Virginia, Missouri, who says she developed ovarian cancer after using its talcum powder. Prosecutors argued the company did not adequately warn about the cancer risks associated with its talcum powder. Experts say links with ovarian…
The Sunday Times, before Murdoch bought it, was a world leader in investigative journalism, innovation and integrity, although the paper still commits good journalism. Sir Harold Evans the former editor of The Sunday Times, has a benign proprietor ( Roy Thompson) who exempted Evans’ domain from his robust views on profit. Evans always employed…
Peter Marshall’s generously written people’s history and a reinterpretation of the story of the English Reformation, as his narrative avoids irregularities in the story and explains why Reformation was neither “just about religion” nor “ really about politics.” Protestantisation was adopted by English Monarchs as an established faith make enemies at home and abroad,…
The Golden era of adventurous travel has come to an end, is the two tales of a city, and its historical race to reach one of the world’s most mythologised places. Timbuktu is a tantalising paradise, where even the slaves wore gold. In the eighteenth century, a series of explorers in the name of discovery…
A Booker helicopter crashed in Buckinghamshire injuring three men with “life-threatening” injuries. Police and fire crews were called at the Wycombe Air Park in Clay Lane, Booker, just after 09:40 BST. According to South Central Ambulance Service, the aircraft has three men on board, ended up on its side. An ambulance spokesman said one man…