Less than a week since SpaceX announced they will be sending two private citizens to the moon, Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has told The Washington Post he plans to set up Amazon-style delivery for "future human settlement" of the moon. Bezos said he wants to encourage NASA towards developing "incentives in the private...
Not so long ago I was making a trip down to Cornwall when I overhead a conversation between two mums about what they feed their children. One said their child had developed quite a taste for quinoa before the poor beggar burst into tears. "Pass the humus" - she yelled,...
One of the key messages that never came through in the run-up to the referendum is that Britain can not expect to influence the political makeup of the EU if it decides to leave the bloc. For me, the vote to leave was always a war on two fronts. The...
The Netherlands would vote 56 per cent in favour of leaving the EU if there was a referendum tomorrow, a new poll has shown. According to the Maurice de Hond poll the country would vote overwhelmingly to leave, with 44 per cent remaining compared to 48 per cent who voted the...
Sat amongst one of the busiest transport junctions in London where busses, trains and tubes arrive and depart at monotonously frequent intervals lies a restaurant providing the perfect accessible all-day fare for travellers moving in and out of this up-and-coming SW8 hot spot. Since opening in February 2015, COUNTER has established a cult-following...
China’s thriving wine market will be worth more than the UK by 2020, VINEXPO has forecast. The UK will be pushed into third place among the world’s biggest wine markets when sales of still and sparkling wine reach $21 billion in China compared to $16 billion in the UK. The...
German tabloid BILD’s Leipzig sent its thanks to Britain after news broke that BMW may move production of a new electric Mini to Germany. The paper ran with the headline "thank you Brexit" on Tuesday as BMW refused to deny claims it was considering a move as uncertainty mounts for British manufacturers...
London has topped a table of 52 European cities for the number of people exposed to possible ground instability, according to a new study. The research, from an earth scientist at the University of Portsmouth, is the first to examine the distribution of geological hazards -- from volcanoes and landslides, to...
For a country of 1.2 billion people stretching across a landmass of almost two million square miles, India's transport system is, to put it politely, antiquated. Take a trip on the Shatabdi Express from Bangalore to Chennai and you'll be chugging along for five hours on a good day, and if...