The world of money is making people go round, as households and organisations have to deal with everchanging economies and payment systems like bitcoin and Applepay. You may ask what is money and how dow we make any sense of it? Three eminent Sociologists Nina Bandelj, Frederick Wherry and Viviana Zelizer, edited Money Talks, and…
JK Rowling is the highest-earning author in the world according to US business magazine Forbes. The Harry Potter writer amassed £170m ( $300m) last year after she wrote her first best-selling books about the boy wizard in 1997. She beat the literature’s next biggest earner, James Patterson, of Along Came A Spider fame by six…
A thirty-two-year-old woman gave birth to a baby boy, around 2:30 am on June 129th 2017, in an ambulance, surrounded by 12 lions including three males from adjacent forest, who created an impromptu road block. Lions appear to stage a road block after their kill and were too full and too lazy to move off…
Brussels has hit Google with a £2.13bn (€2.4bn) antitrust fine fro abusing its dominance in search. The European Commission ended its seventh-year competition investigation concluding that the company had abused its near-monopoly in online search to “give illegal advantage” to its own shopping service. Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s competition commissioner, said Google “denied other…
Spain’s Rafael Nadal, the King of Clay, won his 10th French Open title by beating Switzerland’s Stan Wawrinka, at Roland Garros, Paris, scoring 6-2, 6-3, 6-1. The 31-year-old Spaniard won two more than any other player in history – and his 15th major tournament triumph overall. Starting with the 2015 Wimbledon Championships, he went six…
The Everton striker, Dominic Calvert-Lewin gave England a first-half goal and win over Venezuela in 2017 Under-29 World Cup final at Suwon World Cup Stadium on Sunday and a first global title since 1966. Goalkeeper Freddie Woodman later saved a second-half penalty from Adalberto Penaranda as the South Americans applied the pressure in an…
Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel won the Monaco Grand Prix and extended his championship lead over Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton to 25 points. Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari came second followed by Daniel Ricciardo of Red Bull. Hamilton finished seventh after a difficult race from 13th on the grid. Safety car was brought in after a collision involving Wehrlein…
Sri Lankans recovering from their worst floods are bracing themselves for even more rain as emergency teams are still struggling to deliver aid. Over 150 people have been killed and over half a million displaced in the flooding and mudslides triggered by heavy rains on Friday. Another 115 people are still missing according to officials…
Arsenal won the 2017 FA Cup beating Chelsea 2-0. Their captian Lauren Koscielny shred the honour with Per Mertesacker. Arsenal, record 13-time winners of the cup, and Arsene Wenger the greatest FA Cup manager of all time. Man of the match Sanchez is replaced by Elneny. Aron Ramsey has now scoffed the winning goals in…