Man dies on board on Emirates flight from Dubai to Manchester

An elderly male passenger has died on board a Emirates flight EK21 from Dubai to Manchester on 20th June 2016. He is said to have been ill before boarding in Dubai and Greater Manchester Police confirmed the death was not suspicious. The Boeing 777 landed at Manchester Airport at 7:30am this morning and was met…

Andy Murray wins record fifth Queen’s title

Britain’s Andy Murray demolished Milos Raonic’s huge serve to become the first man to win the Queen’s Club title five times. Andy had to come back as Raonic  led the set by 3-0, to break the Canadian’s serve, twice in succession. The top seed and defending champion went on to win 6-7  (5-7) 6-4 6-3.…

Teenagers find social media “likes” better than chocolates

Researchers from the University of California – Los Angeles, revealed after a study observed activation in the brain’s reward regions when teenagers saw their photos with a large number of likes. The same brain circuits that are activated by eating chocolate and winning money are activated when teenagers see large numbers of “likes” on their…

Maria Sharapova’s sponsors rally round

  Despite Tennis champion Maria Sharapova being banned from the sport for two years after testing positive for a banned substance, several of her corporate sponsors have leapt on the International Tennis Federation’s ruling that her contravention of doping rules was unintentional as justification for renewing the relationship with the 29-year-old Russian. Nike which had…

3 killed and 9 injured in Belgium train collision

Three people have been killed and nine injured in a train crash in the Belgian town of Hermalle-sous-Huy near Leige, as the passenger train crashed into the back of a goods train at high speed, according to Belgium’s rail infrastructure manager, Infrabel. The two trains were on the same track. The passenger trains with about…

40 injured as Malaysia Airlines hit by severe turbulence

Thirty four passengers and six crew members on a Malaysia Airlines Airbus A380-800, the biggest commercial airliner in use, flight from London Heathrow, have been hurt after it was hit by turbulence. The aircraft carrying 378 passengers on board at the time but managed to land safely at Kuala Lumpur. Medical staff and senior Malaysia…

Snapchat surpasses 150million daily users

Four-year-old popular messaging app Snapchat Inc valued at £12.42bn ($18bn), passed over 150million people using the service each day, and is now more popular than Twitter Inc by daily active users. Increasingly more and more investors like Fidelity Investment, Atlantic and Sequoia Capital are looking to have a share in Snapchat, as it generated £40.71m…

163 BHS stores to be wound down with loss of 11,000 jobs

BHS, the troubled UK department store chain is to be wound down, after attempts to find a buyer failed with the loss of 11,000 jobs, 8000 members of staff and 3000 non-BHS employees who work in the stores. The decision was taken as none of the offers was judged acceptable by administrators Duff & Phelps,…

£92.5k for Painting of Amritsar in London auction

A London –based taxi driver bought a painting after haggling for £40 sikh painting at a car boot sale has eventually sold it of the hammer price of £75000 with added fees making it overall £92,250. His taxi currently off-road with a flat tyre. Auctioneers at Roseberys said interest in it took off after the…

lndian Railways ticketing website hacked

The e-ticketing portal Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation ( IRCTC), India’s largest e-commerce website hacked and personal data of 10million  customers is feared to have been stolen from the server. Customers provide details of their Pan Car numbers while filling up online reservation forms. “Someone can create a forged documents on the basis of…