Monthly Archives: December 2016

“We opened 100 stores in 2016, and we plan to open hundreds more new stores over the next few years.”

Cancel every single one of your plans, people. A massive new Nickelodeon theme park is on its way. You may soon be looking for the quickest route to New Jersey in the next couple of years. It turns out Nickelodeon is crafting a huge indoor theme park featuring a bunch of new rides related to […]

OK, Harry Potter fans, heres aconundrum: Would you want to live at Number 4 Privet Drive? Because you totally can, if you want to. (And if you have enough money to buy the house. And if you live in Berkshire, England.) A home that is identical to the oneused for the exterior shots of the […]

A true real estate guru sees so much more than a just a garden here.Image: Warner Brothers LONDON By now you’ve probably heard that the house used to depict 4 Privet Drive in the Harry Potter film series is up for sale. However, the online advert for this piece of magical history is decidedly drab […]

Image: Getty Images Aydin Senkut started his venture capital firm Felicis Ventures in San Francisco a decade ago. Five funds and more than $430 million later, Senkut is ready to open an office on Sand Hill Road, alongside such Silicon Valley institutions as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital. But hes going to […]

Media captionWATCH: Chris Conder explains how she created a local superfast broadband network “I’m just a farmer’s wife,” says Christine Conder, modestly. But for 2,300 members of the rural communities of Lancashire she is also a revolutionary internet pioneer. Her DIY solution to a neighbour’s internet connectivity problems in 2009 has evolved into B4RN, an […]

Partinico, Italy (CNN)Pino Maniaci takes aim at a dartboard covered in mugshots — 10 of Sicily’s most notorious mob bosses. “Bullseye!” he shouts. It isn’t quite a direct hit, but this journalist and famed mafia hunter doesn’t easily give up. “These are Sicily’s pieces of shit,” he snaps, tapping the images one by one and […]

Media captionIn video: His most famous tracks Tributes have poured in from across the world for singer George Michael, who has died at his home at the age of 53. Former Wham! bandmate Andrew Ridgeley said he was “heartbroken at the loss of my beloved friend”, while Sir Elton John mourned a “brilliant artist”. His […]

Image copyright Eddie Mitchell Image caption Fire crews arrived to find the property fully alight He compared the flammable nature of a Christmas tree to a chip pan and said they burned ferociously if they caught fire. Image copyright Eddie Mitchell Image caption The elderly couple had smoke inhalation and minor injuries Mr Murphy said […]

Calls for culls always surge after attacks by salties but its their habitat not humans that will decide their numbers For the people of Australias tropical north, a wary coexistence with crocodiles is a fact of life. Protected for more than four decades after being hunted to near extinction, the ancient reptile on the credible […]