IRIS – portrait of a lady with style……

  PRESENTING  WORlDWIDE COLLECTIONS FOR ARMCHAIR ENJOYMENT. Being ageist is something most of us frown upon but pointing out that Iris Apfel subject to this interesting docufilm about her life, is now 94 and her husband Carl is 100 does seem reasonable. One of Iris’s trademarks is her goggle – like glasses – huge cylindrical…

Spanish Talgo trains to speed up Mumbai-Delhi rail travel

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has given an in-principle go ahead for Madrid-based locomotive-maker to undertake trail runs of its lighter and faster trains that could cut the journey time from Mumbai to Delhi from 17 hours to 12 hours without changing India’s ageing rail tracks. Talgo in July 2015, stated its intention to ship…

Twitter still losing money despite having over 302 million users

According to inventor and interim CEO and Co-founder of Twitter, 39 year old Jack Dorsey, who wrote a dispatch software at the age of 15, that is still used by some taxicab companies even today,  “We strive for accuracy and fairness”. “ Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect”. Twitter…

Birthday party turns violent

Police in Riot gear and police helicopter was drafted in after officers were attacked by hundreds of masked party goers at a 14 year birthday party at a block of flats at in Stoke Newington, East London Borough of Hackney, which got out of control. Police had their cars blocked as around 400 people threw…

Casual sex produces better quality sperms

Men produce better quality sperm, ramp up the sperm count and orgasm faster during causal sex encounter with a new partner, according to a new study by a team from the College of Wooster in Ohio, that could change the way infertility is being treated. Men produced higher quality ejaculates when exposed to novel, rather…

2.4m customers of Carphone Warehouse data breached in Cyber attack

2.4 million customers of Carphone warehouse personal details have been compromised in a cyber attack according to a statement from mobile phone retailer. At least 90,000 customer’s encrypted credit card information may have been accessed according to their statement. The retailers owner Dixons Carphone says they are very sorry for the attack. The affected part…

Crowdfunding used to pay for breast implants

Crazier ideas have been conceived in the Las Vegas party scene. A 2005 web site, “my Freeimplants.com” which allows women to crowdfund their own breast enhancements. It seems men around the world will always lend a lady a helping hand especially when boobs are involved. Breast implants where thousands of women have met their financial…

Information Technology can remould global economics

Over the past two centuries, the capitalism has undergone constant changes and economical cycle which lurch from boom to bust and always has emerged transformed and strengthened. Paul Mason an economic editor at Channel 4 News and Guardian columnist believes that after two decades the western capitalism which dominated the world, this economic system has…

Meltdown of the Irish economy in Eurozone

Paul Murray describes vividly in his third novel, the role of bankers in Ireland, who are classed as new class of pariah, accused for bringing the country to the edge of bankruptcy. And Dublin is branded as post-apocalyptic ghost town, full of protesters dressed as walking the dead Royal Irish Bank (Zombies), in unfinished luxury…

England win the Ashes

Victorious Cook Day 3 Australia tour of England and Ireland, 4th Investec Test: England v Australia at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, Aug 6-10, 2015  Australia 60 all out  18.3 ov , MJ Clarke 10 off 15, 2 fours, MG Johnson 13 off 25, 2 fours, SCJ Broad 15-8; MA Wood 13-1, 253 all out, 72.4 ov,  David Warner…