Tokyo 2020 Day One Cycling: Ecuador’s Richard Antonio Carapaz Montenegro, wins cycling road race gold, for the first time chasing a group with seven riders I contention arrives 1:07 behind him, while GB’s Adam Yares missed out ona medal and Geraint Thomas out after earlier crash. Carapaz formed a breakaway of his own so…
Tencent is making a swoop for taking over British innovative video games developer Sumo 919m and Innovative podcast platform Audioboom £188m acquired by Investment firm All Active Asset Capital, total worth more than £1.1bn. The two deals take the combined total Value of bids and deals for UK companies so far this year to more…
Competition authorities in the UK gave green light in Astra Zeneca’s $39bn takeover deal of US giant Alexion Pharmaceuticals delivering the British pharma a lucrative portfolio of immunology and a towering presence in rare diseases. Astra Zeneca on Wednesday announced the completion of its Alexion acquisition, a week after securing a pivotal nod from UK’s…
Dozens of cities in Henan Province in central China including is provincial capital Zhengzhou, home to 94 million people affected by record-breaking rainfall have left 12 dead and more than 100, 000 evacuated from their homes, with people wading in chest high levels of water on roads and train stations. The local authorities have issues…
33 people died as tropical heavy rainfall triggered mud slide and flooding disrupting road , rail and air traffic. Flood waters submerge Mumbai due to extreme monsoon rain in India which faced more than 200mm rainfall equivalent to 11 days of average daily monsoon rainfall in 12 hours shutting roads and rail services, Power was…
A Tokyo court sentenced US Special Forces veteran Michael Taylor for two years in prison and is son Peter for one year and eight months for their role in ex-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn’s escape from Japan in 2019, after the pair were extradited from the US over claims they smuggled Mr Ghosn out of Japan…
Lewis Hamilton, his 8th win, overcomes a 10-second penalty for a crash with the rival Max Verstappen to pass Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and claimed a dramatic British Grand Prix victory in front of 140, 000 crowd. Hamilton blamed the collision with Verstappen’s Red Bull at Copse corner on the first lap of the race, which…
This is the story of jeans from cotton plant nested in the soil to the flares hanging in your wardrobes. A revealing book about the birth and death of jeans that exposes the fractures of our global supply chains, and our relationships to each other, ourselves and the planet. Did you buy your jeans on…
StHumans rely on plants to change consciousness to stimulate calm, or completely after the qualities of our mental experience. Michael Pollen explores three very different drugs – Opium, caffeine and mescaline and throws the fundamental strangeness of our thinking about them into sharp relief, exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around…
Grifters came to be called visionaries and high finance lost its mind. In 2001, charismatic Adam Neumann arrived in New York, the land of opportunities, after five years as a conscript in the Israeli navy, he transformed himself into the charismatic CEO of WeWork worth $ 47bn, within the span of 15 years. His long…