A new year, a new record-high price for wholesalers in Japan. Around this time every year a big fat tuna sells for an astronomical price in Tokyo's behemoth fish market, bringing a year of prosperity to the buyer. For the fifth time in a row, this year's highest bidder was Kiyoshi Kimura,...
Mark Zuckerberg has fired his new artificial intelligence bot after finding him hidden in his pantry flicking through his Facebook feed. The AI was one of Mark’s big challenges for this year, but it appears he has been hoisted by his own petard after he discovered the robot looking at...
The stock markets have made a panicked start to 2016 with more than £34 billion wiped off the FTSE within an hour on the first day of trading in 2016. There were similar falls across other major European and Asian indices as concerns over China's slowdown hit again. Shanghai’s stock market had...
A map released by the Environment Agency during the recent floods in Leeds highlighting 'severely affected' areas runs an almost identical course to the proposed HS2 route, raising questions about the feasibility of the multi-billion pound project. Phase 2 plans for the high speed railway follow parts of the Aire and...
From the outset, 2015 shouldn't have been a momentous year. "Yet for many and varied reasons, most of them unpleasant", writes Martin Hannan in The Scotsman, "it will be remembered for decades to come". Looking through the TLE archives from 2015 the breaking news stories are a reminder of the testing...
The International Space Station is an architectural feat and a cross-country collaboration like no other. Suspended approximately 400 kilometres above the Earth’s surface the habitable artificial satellite weighs almost 400 tonnes and required more than 40 missions to assemble. Space administrations from across the World joined to form the world's...
London Waterloo has been crowned the UK's busiest railway station once again after the latest figures from the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) revealed 99 million passengers passed through the station in the past year. Nine out of the top ten spots went to stations in London, with the top...
The government has been blamed for the rise of highly questionable pension schemes which have led to a £2 billion 'liberation scandal'. A nationwide campaign group says the government is “ultimately responsible” for the potential loss of billions of pounds of savers’ pensions by refusing to “fix a broken system”...
George Clooney has pledged the first £5 to a campaign run by Scottish not-for-profit sandwich shop Social Bite to feed thousands of homeless people on Christmas Day and throughout 2016. The Hollywood actor recorded a video message on a staff member’s iPhone pledging the first £5 and encouraging others to do the same....