Traditional Christmas themed children’s book from none other than J.K. Rowling, one of the world’s greatest storytellers, which see Jack, a boy propelled from his unhappy mundane life into magical world, who loves his stuffed porcine, childhood toy, Dur Pig. DP has always been there for him, through good and bad. Until one Christmas Eve,…
How a broken corporate culture paved the way for catastrophe, with race to beat competition and reward top executives, Boeing skimped on testing, pressured employees to meet unrealistic deadlines, and convinced and forced regulators to put planes into service without properly equipping them or their pilots for flight, Peter Robinson, award-winning reporter for Bloomberg, looks…
Lewis Hamilton (36) received his knighthood from Prince Charles, at Windsor, for services to motorsport after he was denied his eight Formula 1 driver’s title. The Mercedes racer lost the 2021 title to Red Bull’s Max Verstappen at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, after he was overtaken on the final lap of the last race.…
On Wednesday afternoon a fire started to rip through the 38-story building which houses offices and mall, including World Trade Centre, in the bustling commercial and shopping district of Causeway Bay, trapping 350 people waiting to be rescued. The blaze was upgraded to a level three incident on a scale of one to five. Seven…
Sixty people have been killed after a fuel tank exploded following an accident in the city of Cap-Haitien, in Northern Haiti. Some victims went on to gather leaking fuel when it ignited. Local hospitals have been overwhelmed by those injured in the blast, Prime Minister Ariel Henry said the entire Caribbean nation was grieving after…
NatWest contributed to anti-money-laundering failures that involved black bin liners stuffed full of cash being deposited, and sums so large that one branch’s two floor-to-ceiling safes proved “inadequate” for storing it all. The Bradford Jeweller Fowler Oldfield’s predicted annual turnover was £15m when first taken on as a client, but it ended up depositing…
Rescue workers from the National Guards from six states Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missoroi, Mississippi and Tennessee, are desperately searching for survivors scouring through the rubbles in Kentucky. 100-year-old Mayfield First United Methodist Church in Kentucky was destroyed in seconds by the tornado. Over hundred people have died in Kentucky including dozens in a candle factory,…
Vicenta Fernandez, the King of Mexico’s traditional ranchera music, known for classics like “El Rey” and Volver, Volver, has died aged 81. He died on the same day as Mexicans celebrate the Virgin of Guadalupe. Fernandez who was critically acclaimed and had sold tens of millions of records worldwide and began his career singing…
Pictures Laurence Nair-Price Red Bull’s Max Verstappen overtakes Mercedes Benz’s Lewis Hamilton on chaotic last lap to claim first F1 title in Abu Dhabi. Briton’s Mercedes team had two protests against the result rejected by stewards. In the most thrilling with extreme controversial of climaxes to an epic F1 title duel Verstappen and Hamilton’s battle…
When Britain’s post office embraced the digital future, introducing a computer system called Horizon that could be used by staff at its branches, by thousands of sub-postmasters the independent contractors who provided essential services. Horizon designed by Japan’s Fujitsu appeared to have uncovered an epidemic of fraud among sub-postmasters – as 236 of them…