Great Britain ended the Beijing Winter Olympics with two medals – a gold for Women’s curling and silver for Men’s curling. Eve Muirhead’s fourth attempt, after heart-breaking near misses and career-saving surgery on an arthritic hip, finally has her Olympic curling gold medal, said “ Without these girls being so strong, this dream would not…
Colin Barrett, a regular in the New Yorker, a prize-winning author of Young Skins, in 2013, introduces chronicler of small-town County Mayo, in rural west Ireland with a serious prose style, brings eight stories, and takes us back to the barren backwaters of County Mayo, via Toronto, and illuminates the lives of outcasts, misfits, and…
The Sassoons were one of the great business dynasties of the nineteenth century, as eminent as traders as the Rothschilds were bankers. Joseph Sassoon reveals the secrets behind the family’s phenomenal success, and how a handful of Jewish exiles from Ottoman Baghdad forged a mercantile juggernaut from their new home in colonial Bombay, the vast…
India achieved the feat after defeating West Indies by 8 runs in the second T20I of the three-match series at Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Full-time Indian captain Rohit Sharma is yet to lose a single game. Pakistan is the only other team to have won more than 100 T20I, by winning 118 T20Is.
Storm Eunice with gusts of 122 miles, one of the worst to hit the UK in three decades is sweeping across the British Isles. Airline pilots are having to use their skill to land planes safely at Heathrow airport, as over 436 flights have been either delayed or cancelled and an Air Portugal jet was…
Punjabi actor Deep Sidhu has been killed in a car crash with a truck while travelling on the Kundi- Manesar-Palwal Expressway that bypasses Delhi. The actor was rushed to a hospital but was declared dead on arrival. A video from the scene showed a Mahindra Scorpio which Sidhu was driving smashed into the rear…
Petropolis, located in the mountains north of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, was hit by landslides and flash flooding which killed more than 100 people. Houses on the hillside neighbourhoods were destroyed as cars were swept away by racing floodwaters through the city’s streets. Brazil’s National Civil Defence said that 24 people had been…
Talented Artist Alfie Rouy who can also be quite surrealist– subconscious dreams is an inspitration. Studied at Camberwell College of Art for three years, despite lockdown af3ected him but graduated last year. He did not work in studios in Peckham. Influenced by alchemy and spiritual and historical contexts .. Studio West Till Feb 17, Portobello.…
Health officials confirmed the first death from Lassa fever, an animal-borne, or zoonotic, acute viral illness in the UK, as three cases have been reported this week in the UK. Experts have said the Lassa virus is not transmitted via airborne infection but through contact with bodily fluids of an infected person. Lassa Haemorrhagic fever…