Monthly Archives: October 2016

Moses, a red-eared slider turtle, went missing more than two weeks ago from a kiddie pool in the yard of 83-year-old Maryland resident Gloria Todd The police are at a loss. The elderly couple desperate. Their beloved companion still gone though they hope not far. Moses, a 78-year-old red-eared slider turtle, went missing more than […]

SoundCloud as a company is a disaster, but its the only streaming service with the DJ sets and remixes kids love. So it makes perfect sense that Spotify is in advanced talks to acquire SoundCloud, the Financial Times reports. Spotify already declined to buy it twice over the past year and a half, but talks […]

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Since 2010 rates have been determined by rents values in 2008, but a lot has changed since then Colliers International looked at how the new valuations might affect retailers, comparing rents in 2015 with rateable values set in 2008. It believes around 324 retail centres across Britain will see […]

Researchers worldwide have come up with many innovative ways to make sense of gentrification and perhaps even prevent its worst effects. Douglas Murphy crunches the numbers Gentrification is a word on many lips. Property values, rent rises, people displacement, speculative development, offshore investment; coffee shops, beards, bikes and vanishing nightlife. In the worlds big cities, […]

Most of the American expatriate enclave in Mexico lean left in their politics, but a small group say the Republican candidate is just misunderstood Ed and Karen Cage fly the Mexican flag outside their home in the hills aboveLake Chapala. Speaking to their maid or fellow worshipers at the local church, the two septuagenarians make […]

In a radical move, the Canadian city now charges an extra 15% to any overseas investor buying property there. The short-term impact on Vancouver house prices has been startling but will it last? There is a city which is suffering a priced-out than Londoners, and where there is a greater divide between the housing haves […]

Some things are more traditional than others when it comes to the 41st match-up, but all are likely to have a place at Hazeltine in Minnesota this weekend The vice-captain The first thing that happened at the inaugural Ryder Cup in 1927 was the team captains played each other. Back then there was no doubting […]

Father of the two chicks was stolen from Port Elizabeths Bayworld marine park as a protest against animals being kept in captivity The two chicks of an endangered African penguin that was stolen from a marine park in South Africa have died. Buddy the penguin was taken from Bayworld in Port Elizabeth by two men […]

Since then Ross has made the journey from London to the home in Staffordshire every Tuesday to visit Margaret. “They do a great job there,” he says, “but I just became struck by a sense of loneliness in her. “The staff don’t have time to spend one-on-one with every resident and she’s not the type […]

The Republicans Twitter tirade against former Miss Universe has been labeled a Machado meltdown after Clinton brought her story to national attention Donald Trump was accused by the Clinton campaign of unhinged behaviour toward a former Hillary Clinton recalled how Trump had first labeled her Miss Piggy and publicly shamed her for putting on weight […]