Monthly Archives: October 2016

He accused the taxpayer-owned bank of deliberately putting viable businesses on a path to destruction while aiming to pick up their assets on the cheap. The documents show the bank’s efforts to make money out of struggling businesses were ramped up after the 2008 financial crisis. More than 12,000 companies were pushed into the bank’s […]

Far from being just another passing fad, the current trend of Eco-friendly homes is a direct consequence of people assuming responsibility for climate change and taking steps to address it in their day-to-day lives. But while plenty of new homes are built with green amenities right from the get-go, older ones are invariably a product […]

Rights groups claim 500 people have died in unrest sparked by development plans in the region around Addis Ababa The Ethiopian government has declared a state of emergency following a week of anti-government violence that resulted in deaths and property damage across the country, especially in the restive Oromia region. Rights groups say that since […]

Ministers are in the fray too, as demands increase for tighter building standards to ensure at-risk homes are made more flood resistant. Some of these tensions around flood policy are revealed in an unpublicised report to government that ministers plan to launch in coming weeks. In the report, the Environment Agency blames insurers for failing […]

South Korean electronics company to kill off its flagship smartphone after failing to fix problems with batteries catching fire Samsung has confirmed that it is permanently stopping production of the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone after it was involved in dozens of fires and explosions worldwide. In a regulatory filing in South Korea late on Tuesday, […]

A California yoga mat made from the same leather as NFL footballs is aimed at athletes, but devoted yogis say it doesnt fit with their philosophy Yoga, for many practitioners, is a practice of finding spiritual and bodily harmony. Its not an expensive activity. Most yogis use a mat which usually cost between $20 and […]

Read more about this and other stories from across Lincolnshire On the second day of the trial transcripts of the girl’s police interviews were read. She told officers she and her co-accused had planned the killings, which had started off as a joke, in the days before their deaths on the evening of 13 April. […]

Relied on neighbours Mr Nutley was one of the residents of the street followed by cameras for the controversial documentary show. In his biography on the Channel 4 website before the series aired last year, it said: “Lee relies on his next-door neighbour Julie and the other residents of Kingston Road more than ever. “With […]

Christian woman sentenced to death in 2010 after allegedly insulting the prophet Muhammad during village argument The most notorious cases involving Pakistans blasphemy laws will be heard by the countrys supreme court on Thursday in a legal showdown that lawyers hope will spare the life of a poor Christian woman and curb future convictions. Asia […]

Patriarchs Ponds once housed poor families in communal apartments. Slowly it became home to Moscows wealthy elite but then the hipsters arrived In a city of high-rise apartment blocks and vast, teeming traffic arteries, tranquility is at a premium in Moscow. For that reason, many rich Russians have been drawn in recent years to Patriarchs […]