The new virus news emerging from China in December 2018, risk-averse financial markets were alert to its potential for disruption. Yet they could never have predicted the total economic collapse that would follow Covid-19’s wake, as stock markets fell faster and harder than at any time since 1929, currencies across the world plunged, investors panicked…
Mr Issacman ( foreground) yelled “punch it SpaceX” before the launch. Four amateur astronauts have blasted off from Florida on their private mission to orbit. The Inspiration4 crew , comprising of on billionaire and three ordinary citizens rode out of the Kennedy Space Centre in a Dragon capsule provided by Space Z rocket company.…
Sir Clive Sinclair cutting-edge technology inventor and pioneer of home computing dies aged 81 ion London. His calculator Sinclair Executive won Design Council awards and was put on show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His innovative quartz watch, a sleek black affair, never worked properly and customers returned them in thousands.…
Three people have died after a car ploughed into a sheltered accommodation (block of flats), and caught fire in Great West Road, Notting Hill, West-London at 4:45am. Police were called in 4:50am, as the London Fire Brigade put out the fire but sadly three people were pronounced dead at the scene and nine people were…
Pos Driver Time Pts 1 D. Ricciardo McLaren · #3 1:21:54.365 27 2 L. Norris McLaren · #4 +1.747s 18 3 V. Bottas Mercedes · #77 +4.921s 18 4 C. Leclerc Ferrari · #16 +7.309s 12 5 S. Pérez Red Bull · #11 +8.723s 10 Lewis Hamilton has said Formula 1’s halo – curved…
Second seeded Russia’s Danill Medvedev (25), won his first Grand Slam title by beating Novak Djokovic’s hopes of completing a calendar sweep of his majors in a one-sided US Open final. Medvedev, who had lost his two previous Grand Slam finals was improved and composed throughout a 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 win. Djokovic who was bidding…
Emma Raducanu (18) beat Canadian Leylah Fernandez (19) 6-4, 6-3, to win the US Open and ended Britain’s 44 year wait for a women’s Grand Slam Singles Champion at the Aurthr Ashe Stadium In the war of the teenagers Raducanu threw herself to the floor in disbelief as she fired down an ace to conclude…
Josiah Wedgwood, the greatest English potter who ever lived, epitomised the best of his age, from his kilns and workshops in Stoke-on-Trent, which revolutionised the production of ceramics in Georgian Britain by marrying technology with design, manufacturing and efficiency and retail flair. He was responsible for transforming the luxury markets not only of London, Liverpool,…
Samuel Moyn, Prominent historian, reveals the dark side of making war more humane. In the years after 9/11, we have entered an age of endless war, with very little debate or discussion,as the United States carries out military operations around the globe, and it hardly matters who the president is or liberals, or conservatives operate…