Hardly cutting edge: this is the bizarre way a female tribal 'doctor' treats patients in India - with a four foot-long SWORD. The charlatan, who goes by the name Phuleshwari, uses the tip of the blade to put pressure on different parts of the body, including the eyes. These graphic pictures show her inserting the point right into the eye socket of a woman - without drawing blood. Crowds flock to see the sword woman who practices on Mondays and...

Digital money is here to stay and stakeholders are working hard to propel the transition from cash to electronic transactions. The rapid proliferation of smartphones and social messaging services has served as a powerful driver for the growth of the digital economy. More so, there's a remarkable growth in the Fintech world as innovators try to create digital solutions for financial services. A market report from MasterCard shows that digital money accounted for about 45% of monetary transaction in the...

The online gambling industry is huge. Currently, there are over 800 online casinos serving millions of players from all over the world. In most countries, online gambling is a legit business, operating under licenses and paying hefty taxes to the state. There are others where, although not explicitly banned, it's frowned upon, having a questionable legal status at best. Yet the need for online casinos is constant - people are finding ways to circumvent the bans to play their favorite...

Eventually we learn at least three things over the course of a long and frequently lively life – our wit and charm is not enhanced by copious drinking no matter what we think at the time, the pain of a loss lasts longer than the thrill of a win, and don't get your hopes up. There are more of course (the two things in life everyone you know thinks they know how to do better than you know how to...

One in three men reckon they’re ‘punching above their weight’ in a relationship - compared to just one in five women. Men are much more likely to leave their mates dumbstruck by pulling someone far out of their league, and their mates are quick to let them know it. However, women are less modest, with eight out of 10 believing they’re the more attractive part of their pairing. A quarter of male respondents have also been told in no uncertain...

At the beginning of the year, I wholeheartedly believed that genuinely brilliant high-end Italian restaurants in London did not exist. Before visiting Margot for dinner, in January, each of my previous experiences had ranged from the morbidly mediocre to the astoundingly atrocious. Peculiarly though, the city is still home to so many upmarket 'Italian' temples of bad taste. Restaurants that charge dizzying prices for food that's barely worthy of being served at Zizzi. Even more bizarre is the rapturous popularity...

The Conservative candidate for the former seat of murdered Jo Cox joked yesterday that the campaign is going well as ‘we have not yet shot anybody’. Dr Ann Myatt, running for election in Batley and Spen, has apologised after making the comment during a hustings debate held for constituents before the General Election on June 8th. She said: "We have here people of all faiths, we have here people from different parts of the community, and we have not yet shot...

By Michael McNulty John Goldschmidt’s Dough, penned by first time scriptwriters Jonathon Benson and Jez Freedman, feels like an afterschool special that’s trying to take on too much. Race, religion, culture and age, the differences, the divisions, the need to look past them all and come together is what this film is all about, with a “save the shop” thread running through the middle. Nat (Jonathan Pryce), an aging Jewish baker, with a dwindling customer base runs the risk of...

Telephone banking and online banking are rapidly changing the global financial landscape. Consider that in the UK alone, 461 bank branches will be closing in 2017, owing to changing customer preferences. The rapid growth of Internet banking has revolutionized the industry, and changes are taking place at a rate of knots. In fact, since 2015, a dramatic reshaping of banking has occurred. The rise of Internet-only banks is gaining in prominence as tectonic shifts in customer preferences take root. The...