Prince Philip marks end of 70 years of public service The 95-year-old Duke of Edinburgh Prince Philip to step down from public engagements in autumn, marking the end of 70 years of public service, according to Buckingham Palace. The decision taken with the full support of the Queen was not due to any deterioration in…
British Engineering giant Rolls-Royce will pay £671m to settle corruption cases with UK and US authorities. The UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) found a conspiracy to corrupt or failure to prevent bribery by Rolls-Royce in China, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Russia, Nigeria and Malaysia. A UK court ruled the aerospace firm would pay £497m plus costs…
India to overtake Germany by 2022 as the world’s fourth-largest economy and push Britain out of the top five based on growth projections by the International Monetary Fund. On the way of course there may several challenges, which include executing a wide-ranging overhaul of the present tax system, sorting out the distressed assets among major…
Anthony Joshua, an ex-bricklayer, who was once on drug charges, is now the first billionaire heavyweight boxing star. He still plans to keep living with his mum at home. Anthony Joshua knocked out Ukranian Wladimir Klitschko by producing the best performance of his career to add the WBA world heavy weight title to his crown…
Alexis Jenni’s historical novel gives graphic explanation on the art of French art of warfare, the legacy of France’s violent colonial past and dramatises the 1990s Lyon : the occupied and liberated France of 1943 to 1945; the savage Indo-Chinese and Algerian insurgencies of the 1950s. Its English translation is done when France’s imperial…
Delta Airlines Flight 2035 from Atlanta t9o Milwaukee throws 39-year-old DJ and Poet, Kima Hamilton off flight on 18th April, 2017, since he used the bathroom during a 30-minute delay on the tarmac in the latest PR nightmare for US Airlines. The flight was delayed for 30 minutes, the DJ got up to use the…
Iringole Kavu, 50 acres of forest home to rare birds, animals and flora of the Western Ghats in India are on the endangered list. Here trees are the deities including a Durga temple in the midst of this. Iringole Kavu is one of the 108 famous Durga Hindu temples, in Kerala believed to have been…
Sports Direct’s purchase of 50 stores trading as Bob’s Stores and Eastern Mountain Sports, from Eastern Outfitters including the buying of two loss-making chains, for £78m ($101m)marks his entrance into the US market. Mike Ashley is under pressure into Sports Direct’s working conditions and investor criticism of its corporate governance standards. However, the company has…
Booker-shortlisted writer, Michele Roberts’s latest 14th novel, pays homage to all London’s streetwalkers and literal writer from the likes of Dickens, Woolf. In 1851 Joseph Benson is hired by journalist and social reformer Henry Mayhew, to research for his groundbreaking newspaper articles about the working classes that will later form his magnum opus, London Labour…
The historic locomotive Flying Scotsman is due to arrive into York station on Sunday morning around 8 am, alongside new Virgin Trains Azuma Class 800 train, the HST Class 43 and the InterCity225 Class91. The four trains in parallel display are taking part in a historic specatacle down the line from Tollerton, South of Easingwold.