Narendra Modi: India full of diversity

India’ s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on stage with UK PM David Cameron, has hailed his country;s “special relationship” with the UK as he addressed a 60,000 British crowd at Wembley Stadium rally. Modi was given a rock star welcome by David Cameron. He said “ a historic day for a great partnership between two…

New Zealand lifts the Rugby World Cup 2015

World Cup Rugby 2015 4:00pm Saturday 31st October 2015, Twickenham, attended by 80,125. New Zealand 34 Tries: Milner-Skudder (39), Nonu (42), Beauden Barrett (79) Conversions: Carter (39, 79) Penalties: Carter ( 8, 27, 36, 70, 75) Beat  Australia 17 Tries: Pocock (53) Kuridrani(64) Conversions: Foley( 53, 64) Penalties: Foley (14) New Zealand made history by…

Third F1 Championship win for Lewis Hamilton

1 Lewis Hamilton –Mercedes 2 Nico Rosberg     – Mercedes 3 Sebastian Vettel – Ferrari 4 Max Verstappen – Toro Rosso 5 Sergio Perez       – Force India Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton wins his third F1 championship. He won a thrilling United States Grand Prix in Austin, as he pressured his team-mate Nico Roseberg into an error during…

Wikipedia wins the award for ‘International cooperation’

King Felipe VI of Spain awarded online encyclopedia Wikipedia, a non-profit organization, the country’s Princes of Asturias award for international cooperation, at the northern city of the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo on Friday 23rd October 2015, hailing it a “universal symbol of teamwork”.   Jimmy Wales US entrepreneur who founded Wikipedia in 2001, received the award…

Xi Jinping visit: UK-China ties scale new heights

China’s President Xi Jinping believes The UK and China were becoming more interdependent and a “community of Shared interests,” on the first full day of his four-day visit to London. At Buckingham Palace banquet, the Queen said this was a “very special year of our bilateral relationship”. Addressing MPs and Peers in the Royal Gallery…

Wisconsin University wins$234m in Apple patent case

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the patent licensing arm of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, won £152m $234m worth of damages for patent infringement by Apple ordered by a US jury. The verdict was important to guard its inventions from unauthorized use.  The Jury had earlier come to the conclusion that Apple incorporated patented microchip technology…

China overtakes US in creating dollar billionaires

China has a number of dollar billionaires than the United States for the first time according to The Hurun Report that tracks the country’s richest. The number of Chinese dollar billionaires rose from 354 in 2014 to 596 in 2015 beating the 537 billionaires in the U.S. Wang Jianlin, the chairman of the Chinese real…

Marlon James is the Man Booker Prize winner

Marlon James from Jamaica has won the Man Booker Prize for his novel inspired by the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the 1970s.  A Brief History of Seven Killings, the 680-page epic was very violent and swearing and full of surprises. The £50,000 winner as announced on Tuesday, 13th October 2015, at London’s Guildhall.…

World biggest beer producers brew up a merger deal worth £ 70bn

Miller and Bud  the world’s two biggest beer producers are set to merge after SABMiller accepted an increased takeover offer of £44-a-share, from rival Anheuser-Bush InBev. AB InBev, the world’s largest beer maker, approached  SABMiller, the world’ second-largest beer maker, with an offer to buy the company. The acquisition of SABMiller would be the biggest…