Imagine waking up one morning and finding out that your livelihood was gone. Your means of providing for your family, sending your children to school, and paying the mortgage: it had all simply disappeared overnight. That’s the reality facing people all over Africa who rely on working donkeys. About 600 ...
QuotedData - 2017 review of the year - Many commentators, including us, were wary going into 2017. In the event, economic growth and markets surprised on the upside: US markets hit new highs despite three interest rate rises. Perceived low/no growth areas such as Europe and Japan burst into life. ...
We are a nation that have become permanently attached to our phones. Scrolling through Instagram, swiping on Tinder and listening to the much needed escapism of music. Barely surviving our dreary morning commutes in this ever changing Great British Weather, we constantly turn to the comfort of our handheld technology ...
A group of primary school pupils have been left "traumatised" after a PORN video appeared on screen as they were sat watching Paddington Bear. Shocked children as young as nine-years-old were subjected to the X-rated footage during a screening of the 2017 family film at Croft Academy, in Walsall, West ...
Southbank Centre has announced the first names from the Spring contemporary music season, with an array of shows spanning soul, jazz, electronica, folk, flamenco, folk and indie and featuring performances from the very best emerging artists through to revered veterans. In April 2018, to celebrate the reopening of the Queen ...
These adorable photos show a tiny otter cub who is being hand-reared in complete silence - after she was found abandoned at less than two WEEKS old. A tiny otter pup is being cared for at the Vale Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre near Tewkesbury after being found alone and ...
Journalists were left “laughing uproariously” after Angela Merkel poked fun at May’s poor attempt to negotiate a post-Brexit deal. She said that she felt trapped in a loop with May since the Brexit vote back in 2016. Merkel made her comments in a “secret” press briefing, during the World Economic ...
A Norwegian plane with 84 plumbers on board had to return to Oslo due to problems with the toilets. The flight, which was destined for Munich, took off at 08:35 UTC but returned to Olso 1 hour later to fix the problem. Acording to Dagbladet, there were 84 plumbers who were on ...
The sister of a teacher murdered in her own classroom by a knife-wielding student says metal detectors in schools would "send out wrong message". Ann Maguire's younger sister Denise Courtney believes 'education is the answer' to knife crime and airport-type scanners would not stop baseball bats and acid being found. ...