Edmund Bartlett, minister of tourism for Jamaica, has paid a flying visit to Kenyatta University to review progress towards the setting up of a Global Tourism Resilience & Crisis Management Centre. The centre, which opened earlier this year, will have an office based at the university. The mission of the centre is to carry out […]
Media playback is unsupported on your device Film mogul Harvey Weinstein has reached a tentative $ 25m (£19m) settlement with dozens of women who have accused him of sexual misconduct, lawyers have said. Some 30 actresses and ex-employees would share the payout in the deal. However, it still needs signing off by all parties, Mr […]
Issued on: 12/12/2019 – 09:53Modified: 12/12/2019 – 09:53 France’s CGT union said on Thursday there would be no break in transport strikes over the Christmas period unless the government backed down on pension reform. Advertising Read more “No Christmas break unless the government comes to its senses,” Laurent Brun, head of CGT’s railway branch, said […]
TBILISI — Police in Tbilisi have detained 12 protesters, including the leader of opposition New Georgia party, Giorgi Vashadze, after they tried to block the entrance to the parliament building. The Interior Ministry said on December 12 that the protesters were detained for minor hooliganism and refusing to obey police orders. Those detained were among […]
Europe plans to pass a law to hit net zero by 2050 Not got time to read every line of the European Green Deal? BusinessGreen has you covered Europe could soon become the first continent in the world to be aiming for net zero emissions by 2050, if EU leaders adopt a ground-breaking plan released […]
Physicists are finally getting their heads round what information truly is – and using it to gain new insights into life, the universe and, well… everything Physics 11 December 2019 By Josh Howgego Sean Pavone/Alamy Stock Photo AS THE messages ping, notifications buzz and headlines scream for your attention, it is easy to think you […]
It is the eve of the election and I’ll be rounding up the final call polls here as they come in. YouGov already released their final call prediction last night in the form of their updated MRP projection. The voting intentions in the model were CON 43%, LAB 34%, LDEM 12%, BREX 3%, GRN 3%. […]
Northern England will decide the most important election in the United Kingdom’s recent history. It was once a Labour Party heartland, but Brexit has changed everything. A visit to the battlefield. I-Images/ Zuma Press/ Action Press British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the campaign trail “It is a kind of duty to see and smell […]
Thomas Whitton was a labourer and shoemaker from Shoreditch, east London. He was just 13 in June 1836 when he was convicted at the Old Bailey for shoplifting printed cotton. His sentence was transportation to Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania). When he arrived on the shores of Australia a year later, the brown haired, blue-eyed Londoner […]
Algerians vote Thursday in the first elections since popular protests forced longtime leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika from power. The opposition, which is calling for voters to boycott the elections, held a protest in Algiers on the eve of the poll that was forcibly dispersed by police. Advertising Read more Algeria’s powerful army chief promises that a presidential election […]