All that glitters is not gold

Only in New York you can indulge  in gold dusted French fries. Serendipty3 in Manhattan, New York recently made it to the Guinness World Records  by cooking up the ultimate cheesy French fries – Crème de la Crème Pomme Frites valued at $200 USD, by creative chef Joe Calderone, and Corporate executive chef. Fredrick Schoen-Kiewert…

Rain kills 92 in Germany and Belgium

The worst flooding in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany and Belgium killed 92 people with several more missing, after record rainfall which caused major river banks to burst their banks. Maly Dreyer, chief of Germany’s Rhineland-Palatinate state called the flooding “ catastrophic”. At least 19 people died in the Ahrweiler…

Spoon full of sugar could cost lot more

Nany-state scheme would cost shoppers £4.8billion a year according to John O’Connell head of the  Taxpayer’s alliance who said “ This is yet another case of middle-class meddling that will hit the poorest families hardest”. The processed food market is valued £200 billion and the food and drink service sector is close to 70 billion.…

Last Flight to freedom

Part Lebanese, part Brazilian citizen Carlos Ghosn, made the escape of his life at 10:30pm on a cold December night in 2019, by slipping unnoticed through the streets of Tokyo, with the help of a large music equipment box to smuggled him out of Japan and the elation he felt when he landed in his…

Amazon invest $1bn in India- a key growth market

Jeff Bezos, Amazon boss has announced £770m ( $1bn) investment in India, digitising small and medium businesses allowing them to sell and operate online, saying the country is a key growth market. Speaking in New Delhi he said the 21st century is “going to be the Indian century”. The e-commerce billionaire’s three-day visit to India…

Vision Fund 2 Splashes out $13bn

  SoftBank secured Fund of $13bn poured into more than 30 countries during the second quarter. During the first three months of the year the fund invested $2bn in two dozen companies according to public disclosures. With the second Vision Fund the Japanese company slightly altered its approach – instead placing more modest bets on…

Mask snub led to drug courier’s arrest

Paul Green (38) a drug courier was caught by police on 13th January carrying heroin and crack cocaine worth £60, 000 after officers  spotted him without a face covering as he left a train in Wigan and stopped him for not wearing a facemask on a train. Police said after he became evasive a routine…

Devil transforms into saint

Philip Morris International, one of world’s biggest tobacco companies who sells 50 billion cigarettes a year under Marlboro, Chesterfield and L&H, lodged a bid for Vectira, a UK inhaler maker, whose 200-strong scientists based in Cambridge and Chippenham devise inhalers for respiratory drugs. Vectra’s board led by chairman Bruno Angelici, a former international president of…