Nazanin Zaghari- Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori, British- Iranian nationals, jailed in Iran, touched down at RAF Brize Norton, in Oxfordshire, just after 01:00GMT on Thursday. Ms. Zaghari- Ratcliffe was accused of plotting to overthrow Iran’s government and Mr. Ashoori had been held for allegedly spying claims denied by both of them. The International Revolutionary Guard…
India’s greatest cultural ambassador sitarist Ravi Shankar, ten years after his death which fell in 2020 is being marked by the pandemic-delayed Shankar 100, two months events began in February in London’s South Bank Centre, in which his daughter, sitar virtuoso Anoushka Shankar, was among the family and students paying tribute. Anoushka was the heart…
https://youtu.be/2VbOZ7S2kZ0 Seven-and-half golden elephants, “Ezhara Pannana procession” held during the annual festival at Ettumanoor Sree Mahadeva Temple at Ettumanoor, Kerala, which is often referred to as “God’s Own Country”. Several of the temples have unique traditions and most hold festivals on specific days of the year. Temple festivals usually continue for several days and some…
Even amid the cold war and its terrifying moments in the past, there were flashes of humanity and examples of mutual appreciation. In 1964, Marlene Dietrich accompanied by Burt Bacharach and a band of Soviet musicians featured a near-nude beaded dress worn under white fur. Her opening night was given standing ovation by 1, 500…
Premier League Manchester United 3 Tottenham Hotspur 2 Cristiano Ronaldo 12’, 38’, 81’. Kane 35’ pen, Maguire 72’og Ronaldo’s first Manchester United hat-trick since 2008 ( 14 years) earned his club a 3-2 win and took his overall career goal to 807 which breaks a world record for goals scored, after passing Czech-Austrian Josef Bican’s…
University of Manchester biochemistry Professor Andrew Doig provides an eye-opening portrait of death throughout history, looking at infectious diseases, genetic disease, violence, and diet, who they affected, and the people who made it possible to overthrow them. We also hear about the long and torturous story of the discovery of vitamin C and its role…
Wheat that travelled along the rivers, between ports, and across seas show how cheap American grain toppled the world’s largest empires. In Oceans of Grain, University of Georgia academic Scott Reynolds Nelson reveals how the struggle to dominate these routes transformed the balance of world power. Imperial Russia in the early nineteenth century fed much of…
McDonald’s said it was temporarily closing all its 847 restaurants in Russia and 100 restaurants in Ukraine but continued to pay its staff, which contributed an annual revenue of $2 billion. Burger King’s President and CEO Chris Kempczinski also confirmed it would continue to pay its 62, 000 Russian workers but said “ Our values…
https://youtu.be/HxgXpmGwQw4 The devastating impact of war on isolated communities is based on real events and reflects on the scars traumas can leave on both an individual and community. On a fateful night in a small village in the Outer Hebrides a young beautiful woman, a bookworm dreaming of life out of the gender expectations of…
The International Women’s Day on 8th March, join UN women and the world in coming together under the theme Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow”. We now understand the vital link between gender, social equity, and climate change and recognize that without gender equality today, a sustainable future, an equal future, remains out of…