Carapaz takes cycling gold for Ecuador

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…

Chinese Swoop in British innovation

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…

 Watchdog clears Astra Zeneca’s $39bn  deal

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…

12 dead and thousands evacuated in China after flood

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 die in severe monsoon floods in Mumbai

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…

Jeans and fashion’s greed for cheap clothes

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…

Stimulating high life of Opium, Caffeine and Mescaline

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…

WeWork made freelancers feel that they were on Google campus

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…