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SpaceX, PayPal and Tesla Motors. Is there anybody’s name that comes to your mind? Well, the name of this intelligent and successful person should have popped up straight away! Yes, Elon Musk! With already great success with Tesla, here are many more ideas from this genius which could work out in the future.   Space tourism Ever wanted to see the moon close up? Space X will be undergoing an unmanned test this year and 2 lucky tourists could be...

Chancellor Philip Hammond repeatedly refused to endorse Theresa May as the Conservative leader that will take the party into the next election just days before the Conservative Party Conference gets underway. Speculation over Ms May's future is rife in the run-up to the conference after reports emerged that 30 Tory MPs are willing to sign a letter challenging her leadership. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson also spoke defiantly about Brexit in a Telegraph column in a clear snub of the PM. During...

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has issued a bold statement to the Conservative's at this year's Labour Party Conference, saying education should be a gift from one generation to the next and not a commodity to be sold. The MP for Hayes and Harlington reiterated Labour's pledge to scrap tuition fees in today's speech, pointing to the astronomical amount of debt university students are being saddled with when leaving university - some £57,000 under in many cases. The Tories have tripled tuition fees during...

Shadow First Secretary of State Emily Thornberry trolled Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson at the Labour Party Conference today by suggesting he should get a "Brexit paternity test" to find out who is responsible for the broken promises of the Leave campaign. Bojo has come under fire of late after repeating the £350 million promise in a Daily Telegraph feature, despite it being found to be completely unfounded. Not only does the £350 million figure ignore the rebate secured by Margeret Thatcher,...

A Cotswold homeowner was stunned when she spotted an 'extinct' bird - in her back garden. The Lady Amherst pheasant was introduced to the UK from China in the 19th Century but there have been no reported sightings since March 2015. But Angela King was amazed to spot one of the birds strolling across her lawn in Crudwell, Wilts. She said: "When I saw it, I called for my husband to come and look too as I knew no one...

An acclaimed playwright has hit out at "dangerous" attempts to ban performances of one of her most celebrated works featuring a transgender Jesus. A Brazilian judge has shut down a performance of Jo Clifford's The Gospel According To Jesus, Queen Of Heaven. And a prominent Catholic bishop has been calling for the play, which depicts Jesus as a transgender woman, to be banned altogether. They argue the groundbreaking work is offensive to Christians with cast and crew of the Brazilian...

By Benjamin Jenkins At the Labour Party Conference this week John McDonnell is keen to demonstrate Labour’s economic credibility and the alternatives the opposition would offer in power. The big headlines so far have been about his vow to renationalise rail, water, Royal Mail and energy industries with "market value determined by parliament". - In opinion polls these are popular policies with the nation and would bring the UK back into line with many European countries, some of whose nationalised...

British fishermen are enjoying a 'black gold rush' as demand for cuttlefish hits all time high thanks to soaring demand from abroad - while it is virtually ignored as 'too ugly' to eat here. Fishermen from across the UK are flocking to the South West to land the inky mollusc - which is related to the squid - in record numbers. They are taking advantage of the lack of quotas with 100 tonnes being landed by just five or six...

Fish have "complex" personalities, according to new research. Scientists studied how tiny guppies behaved in various situations, and found complex differences between individual fish. The researchers tested whether differences could be measured on a "simple spectrum" of how risk-averse or risk-prone guppies were. But they found variations between individuals were too complicated to be described in this way. Dr Tom Houslay, of the Centre for Ecology and Conservation (CEC) on the University of Exeter's Penryn Campus in Cornwall, said: "The...