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Czech billionaire buys Royal Mail for £3.6billion

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Royal Mail’s owner has agreed to a £3.6billion  takeover bid by Czech tycoon Daniel Křetínský, another British organisation under foreign ownership. Parent firm international Distribution Services (IDS) said its board of directors had approved  the billionaire’s offer which was received earlier this month.  The deal values the business at £5.3billion including debt and Daniel Křetínský, EP Group must guarantee a series of contractual commitments and intentions to protect Royal Mail’s public service duties such as its one-price-goes-anywhere  first-class post six days week. The 48-year-old Czech Sphinx already owns  27 per cent share in IDS and also owns parts of West Ham United FC and Sainsbury’s. … Continue reading Czech billionaire buys Royal Mail for £3.6billion

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Criminal charges dropped against World No1 professional Golfer

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Twenty-seven-year old, Scott Alexander Scheffler, born in Ridgewood, New Jersey, American professional golfer, currently ranked World number one. Scheffler was facing four charges including assaulting a police office with his vehicle, after an incident that took place just hours before he teed off on the second day at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky. Jefferson County Attorney Mike O’Connel today asked a judge to drop all charges after his team reviewed the case in a “through and expeditious manner. Based upon the totality of the evidence, my office cannot move forward in the prosecution of the charges filed against Mr … Continue reading Criminal charges dropped against World No1 professional Golfer

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Iceland volcanic eruption

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A volcanic eruption has begun in Iceland’s southwestern peninsula, throwing up 50  meters of plumes of magma and ash. This is the fifth time since December an eruption has taken place in the highly volcanically active peninsula. Fissure is growing for more than 1.5 miles  at 12:00 local time near Sundhnuksgigar, north of the village of Grindavik, according to authorities. A complete evacuation of the Blue Lagoon, the geothermal spa and Iceland’s largest tourist attraction, as a precaution.  Four thousand residents of Grindavik were permanently evacuated in last November, before significant eruption began. Continue reading Iceland volcanic eruption

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World’s first Dog’s First-class air travel 

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Bark Air, new airline for dogs, the world’s first air travel experience designed especially for dogs first and then human masters second. The dog-only airline made its maiden flight from New York to Los Angeles on Thursday May 23, 2024. CEO Matt Meeker, said the new airline will transport dogs of all sizes and their people in comfort and in style aiming for stress-free flights for both owners and pets. “We cater to everything to the dog, truing to lower their anxiety and their stress. It’s a first-class experience for the dog, a business-class experience for people”. Bark, the pet … Continue reading World’s first Dog’s First-class air travel 

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International Booker-winner Kairos

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Jenny Erpenbeck and her translator Michael Hofmann won the coveted International Booker prize for Kairos a fiction which was translated into English. Erpenbeck previously won the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, for The End of Days (2015). Kairos ( name of a Greek gid as well as a word for a critical moment, is Erpenbeck’s fourth novel and the first of her books to be translated by Hofmann, is an allegorical story of a May-December affair unfolding in East Berlin during the end days of the GDR. An extramarital entanglement between the 19-year-old student Katharina and Hans, a writer in … Continue reading International Booker-winner Kairos

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KKR wins IPL FINAL

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KKR VS SRH Sunrisers Hyderabad  113 ao Markram 20 off 23, 3 fours, Cummins 24 off 19, 2 fours, 1 six, Starc 2-14, Rana 2-24, Russell 3-19, Chakravarthy 1-9, Marine 1-16, Aurora 1-24. Kolkata Knight Riders 114-2 off 10.3 ov.  Gurbaz 39 off 32, 5  fours, 2 sixes, Venkatesh 52 no off 26. 4 fours, 3 sixes, Cummins 1-18, Shahbaz 1-22. Kolkata Knight Riders win by 8 wickets. Kolkata Knight Riders led by Shreyas Dyer defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League final at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, India to claim their third IPL title. Mitchell Stars … Continue reading KKR wins IPL FINAL

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Leclerc  wins home Monaco GP

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Twenty-six-year-old, Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc born in Monaco held his nerve to convert his pole position  to win the Monaco Grand Prix  after a huge first-lap pile up  between Haas cars and Red Bull’s Sergio Perez. Leclerc controlled McLaren’s Oscar Piastri, team-mate Carlos Sainz and McLarren’s Lando Morris to take the second Ferrari win of 2024. The final laps was highlighted by a battle for fifth between Mercedes’ George Russell and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, in which the Briton managed to to hole out. In the past Lecierc twice had taken pole position at Monaco only for the win to … Continue reading Leclerc  wins home Monaco GP

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Lost world of the Middle East Under Ottoman 

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This is an essential book for understanding the emergence of the modern Middle East from the destruction of the old Ottoman world. How the rule of law was restored to the birthplace ce of Judaism and Christianity, Damascus, after a massacre in 1860s, and the veneration in Island, the eastern littoral of the Mediterranean  Sea,  the most historically burdened place in the world. For centuries this city has drawn in powerful states aspiring to hegemony over the Holy Land, as the minorities sought refuge  from persecution and pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem and Mecca. Russian warships refuel at their … Continue reading Lost world of the Middle East Under Ottoman 

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Astonishingly heroic woman

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On September 5 1951 Elzbieta Zawacka arrived home from her teaching job to find two officials waiting for her, Ransacking her tiny flat in Torun, northern Poland , they pounced upon a cotton-reel containing a $10 note, money she had given to her late mother who had never spent it. Owing foreign currency in communist Poland carried a 10-year prison sentence with torture.  She had already fought to defend Lvov , then a city in eastern Poland now in Ukraine and known as Lviv, from the Nazis and joined the Home Army – one of the largest resistance movement in … Continue reading Astonishingly heroic woman

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AI tech unicorn at the cutting edge

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Sachin Dev Duggal, founder of Builder.ai, one of the UK’s best-funded technology start-ups and a Microsoft-backed tech unicorn, invited hundreds of employees from his company to a five-star hotel in the centre of Ho Chi Minh City, and were treated to performances by local dancers and DJs. Duggal, at time took to a stage to interview figures like former Apple executive Tony Fadel and Serena Williams’s former tennis coach Patrick Mouratoglon. Builder.ai has been valued at just over $1bn following a new $250mn investment round led by Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund QIA had joined investors including Microsoft, SoftBank and Insight … Continue reading AI tech unicorn at the cutting edge