American Airlines jet on fire  aborts take-off

An American Airlines Boeing 767 bound for Miami caught fire  at 14:35 local time (19:35GMT) on the runway of Chicago O’Hare airport while taking off and pilot has to abort the take-off  and evacuated everyone on board as emergency chutes were deployed as black smoke billowed from the plane, injuring twenty people. Nine crew members…

Tim Laman wins wildlife photography award

American field biologist and photo journalist Tim Laman’s Orangutan ape pictured climbing into a tree to reach for figs has won the 2016 Wildlife Photographer of the year (WPY) competition. He captured the scene using a remote camera placed in the rainforest canopy of Gunung Palung National Park in Indonesian Borneo. His fearless bravery effort…

Kumbuka, gorilla smashes his way out the enclosure

  A  29-stone, 7ft, Male Gorilla  Kumbuka, the western lowland silverback’s escape from its enclosure at London Zoo, did not endanger the public, but it could have ended very differently according to the Born Free Foundation. The foundation wants to see zoos phased out- has called the Zoo Expert Committee, the government’s advisory body, to…

Marmite is not my mate -TESCO

  Tesco, One of the biggest Britain’ s supermarkets stopped restocking Unilever products in a row over price, amid Brexit price row. Tesco has dug its heel in a standoff with Unilever, which owns brands like PG Tips, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Persil and Marmite after the company demanded price rises of 10 per…

Google and Salesforce in discussion to buy Twitter

The San Francisco based Twitter has held talks with Google and Salesforce, an enterprise software company, on a potential arrangement to buy the social media pioneer. The company has been working for several weeks with Goldman Sachs to explore a sale of the group, who approached several global media companies to inspire an interest where…

Yahoo hack biggest ever cyber attack

“Hackers stole information from 500 million users in 2014, including swathes of personal information like names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and encrypted passwords as well as “unencrypted security questions and answers but did not include any credit card data and suspect the attack was state-sponsored according to Yahoo spokesperson. The FBI has…

Snake boat race of Aranmula

Aranmula Uthrittathi Vallamkali, Snake boat regatta of Kerala, took place  during the Onam festival. Palliyodams (snake boats) 103 feet long,  with 4 helmsmen 100 rowers and moved in pairs with singing voice Vanchyppattu from the 25 oarsmen singers wearing white mundu and turban, with crowd cheering their favourite team from the banks of the river. Palliyodams…

Google agrees to buy Apigee for £482m

  Google’s purchase of Software developer Apigee is certainly a boom for B2b marketers. The search engine giant has agreed to pay £482m ($625m) for Apigee Corp, a provider of cloud-based software tools that companies use to develop and manage application programming and interfaces, or APIs to transfer data between applications like e- commerce sites…

Police officer in Camden smashing motorist’s windows with baton

Metropolitan Police have launched an investigation after a video emerged showing a police officer smashing his way into a motorist’s car after the driver refused to exit the vehicle in a “disgraceful” incident on Friday 16th September 2016, in Camden, London. The video clip went viral on Saturday after being shared on several social media…