This is the moment a hungry orca circles a trawler desperate to catch any fish that fall from the sides. The killer whale went after the fishing boat as it caught herring off the coast of Kvaenangen in Norway. The orca bull seemed reluctant to let the fish go and bobbed up and down on the surface of the sea waiting for any that fell from the net. Photographer Kurt Arrigo, 48, was on another boat and captured the whale...

Britain's post-Brexit blue passport, which has been used by politicians to symbolise the country's break from the European Union, will be made by a Franco-Dutch firm after they won the race for the £490m printing job. UK-based firm De La Rue, which makes the current burgundy version, lost the contract to make the iconic blue passport to Gemalto, which is listed on the French and Dutch stock exchanges. Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Thursday morning, the chief executive of De...

Kore-eda Hirokazu intrigues with his investigative crime drama, The Third Murder, but the film falls prey to contrivances that sell it short. When Misumi (Yakusho Kôji), an employee at a food packaging plant, confesses to the murder of his boss, hot-shot lawyer Shigemori (Fukuyama Masaharu) is brought on to take his case. Charged with murder & burglary, and facing the death penalty, Shigemori wants to plea the case down to murder and theft and win his client the lesser sentence...

Amazon.com is a mammoth company with $571 billion as market cap. On S&P 500, its shares are the 4th largest and still going persistently. Below are good reasons why Amazon shares are good as long-term investment. Amazon is piloted by its founder Amazon was launched on 1994 by CEO Jeff Bezos. He is very passionate about his company and obviously takes good care of its performance than non-founder CEO’s can. Surveys have studied that companies led by founders have a...

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Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor has shared the video for brand new track ‘Oh Baby’, and it's got us a bit creeped out. Opening comments: try to keep your eyes in your head, sir. They'll only get sticky and covered in dust and fuzz, and that thought basically makes me want to be sick. Alexis says of the song: “‘Oh Baby’ is an exuberant love song, with a nod to the music I love by the likes of Alex Chilton and Paul McCartney....

In celebration of their 21st anniversary, The Porterhouse Brewing Company began to supply their range of craft beers throughout the United Kingdom last year. Initially opening Ireland’s first brewpub, The Porterhouse Brewing Company was launched by cousins Liam LeHart and Oliver Hughes, spotting an opportunity to compete against the bland beers being produced by mass-producing breweries at the time. Since then, the brewery has developed a strong core range and launched a €6 million state of the art brewery in Dublin to keep...

This depressingly predictable slide towards the financial ruin and effective bankruptcy by Northamptonshire County Council is the result of staggering incompetence from both Whitehall and in County Hall says GMB GMB has welcomed the support of Jeremy Corbyn after the Labour savaged the Prime Minister over the financial collapse of Northamptonshire County Council (NCC). At Prime Minister’s Questions today, Mr Corbyn blamed the blamed the “slash and burn” approach to local authority funding as the reason for the council going...

European national science academies are urging further action on climate change adaptation after new data confirmed the increased frequency of extreme weather events. Man-made climate change has been proven to have increased recent extreme rainfall and associated floods as well as increasing the risks of wildfires with implications for humans and animals, the environment, and the economy. New data shows that extreme weather events have become more frequent over the past 36 years, with a significant uptick in floods and...