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Beauty products you should use every day.

October 18, 2020

Beauty products you should use every day. Our beauty director has tried and tested hundreds of products, but these are her everyday favourites. I am in full-on, aggressive Marie Kondo mode at the moment. I’ve had a realisation that I am on the brink of being a hoarder, so as a...

The Triumphant Return of a small phone.

October 16, 2020

The Triumphant Return of the Good Small Phone. The iPhone 12 Mini is tiny by contemporary standards—but unlike other shrunk-down smartphones, it doesn't skimp. WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE between the iPhone 12 Mini and the iPhone 12? About three square inches of display. That’s it. Everything else is the same. Which makes this...

Bafta introduces daytime TV category.

October 16, 2020

Bafta introduces daytime TV category for 2021. The best shows on daytime television will be honoured at the Baftas for the first time after growing numbers of Britons started watching programmes that air during traditional working hours. Daytime TV ratings jumped at the start of the pandemic, as furloughed employees...

How a dog’s life affects its personality.

October 15, 2020

How a dog’s life affects its personality. It is often said that dogs and their owners come to resemble each other. In terms of how their personalities evolve, research suggests they may indeed follow similar paths. A study has revealed how dog personalities change over time, with traits appearing to...

Duchess of Cambridge meets parents.

October 5, 2020

Duchess of Cambridge meets parents in the walled Old English Garden in Battersea Park. This is a sequence of four photographs taken of the Duchess of Cambridge during a recent royal visit. I was intrigued by the changes in her expression and wondered what was being said to her. When...

2020 F1 Russian Grand Prix report.

September 28, 2020

2020 F1 Russian Grand Prix report. 'They are trying to stop me,' says Hamilton, as penalty hands Bottas win. With all the talk of Lewis Hamilton trying to match Michael Schumacher’s record of 91 victories in Formula 1, it was almost tempting fate that the championship leader would falter. And...

The new Renault Arkana soon in Europe.

September 27, 2020

The new Renault Arkana, the Hybrid SUV Coupe. Very good news for fans: Renault Arkana is coming to Europe! Renault's athletic and dynamic coupé-style SUV comes to the European market packed with technology, an E-TECH hybrid version and a new R.S. Line trim level with an even more distinctive and dynamic design....

Celebrities boycott Instagram and Facebook.

September 16, 2020

Celebrities boycott Instagram and Facebook for spreading ‘hate’. A group of A-list celebrities are “freezing” their Instagram and Facebook accounts in protest at the social media giant failing to stop the spread of “hate, propaganda and misinformation”. Celebrities with hundreds of millions of followers, including the actors Leonardo DiCaprio and...

Films must meet diversity to win at Oscars.

September 9, 2020

Films must meet diversity rules to win best picture at Oscars. Studios told to improve representation on and off screen by 2024. Films will be barred from consideration for the best picture Oscar unless they meet new diversity criteria, organizers have said. Movies must meet at least two of four...

California wildfires set a new record.

September 9, 2020

California wildfires set a new record, as more than two million acres are scorched. Fire crews battled numerous blazes across the state Monday as high temperatures and ominous winds meant thousands of people across California were facing expected power shut-offs. With the new fires roaring over the holiday weekend, flames...

Home visits may be curbed to stem rise of pandemic.

September 8, 2020

Home visits may be curbed to stem rise of pandemic. Curfews can reduce rates, says Hancock. A new plea for people to keep their distance from others will be launched and Boris Johnson could tighten restrictions on meeting other people as soon as tomorrow. Tougher enforcement of social distancing rules...

Miss America’s History-Makers and Rule-Breakers.

September 3, 2020

Miss America’s History-Makers and Rule-Breakers. For a century, women have conformed to, and rebelled against, the contest’s strictures. But are beauty pageants finally beyond redemption? To the long-standing annoyance of people involved with the Miss America contest, which bills itself as “first, and foremost, a scholarship program,” the general public often...

Jamaica, Switzerland and Czech Republic quarantine.

August 26, 2020

Jamaica, Switzerland and Czech Republic added to quarantine list. The transport secretary warned that UK holidaymakers were “importing” Covid-19 on their return home as he announced new travel restrictions on Jamaica, the Czech Republic and Switzerland. Grant Shapps said that Britons returning from the three countries would be forced to...

Harry and Meghan pitch Hollywood idea.

August 20, 2020

Harry and Meghan pitch Hollywood idea. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are said to be carving out a new career in Hollywood. Harry and Meghan have been “quietly shopping an idea for a project around town” for which they would be joint producers, Variety, the film and television trade magazine,...

Harry and Meghan buy house in Santa Barbara.

August 12, 2020

Harry and Meghan, secretly buy house in Santa Barbara. Harry and Meghan, secretly buy house in Santa Barbara. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have bought a family home in the city of Santa Barbara, California, and are said to have been living there since the beginning of last month....

High Court judge accuses Meghan.

August 6, 2020

High Court judge accuses Meghan of using media in legal battle. The Duchess of Sussex was yesterday accused by a judge of using the media to fight her privacy battle outside of court. Meghan, 39, won the right to keep the identities of her five best friends secret after arguing...

Gloria Steinem ’s aviator glasses.

July 26, 2020

Gloria Steinem ’s aviator glasses are the shades of 2020. If you thought the return of maxi skirts, long hair and illegal mass outdoor gatherings was enough Seventies revival for one summer, look away now: Gloria Steinem is trending. The 86-year-old feminist and author has turned fashion icon for fans...

Prince Andrew and Beatrice wedding photos.

July 21, 2020

Prince Andrew airbrushed out of Beatrice wedding photos. The princess and her new property developer husband have released two pictures of their hush-hush ceremony — but where are her parents? The newlyweds were beaming and the glittering family heirloom was a showstopper befitting a princess — but the father of...

New drug shows dramatic results.

July 21, 2020

New drug for corona-virus shows dramatic results in first trial. A British drug has been found to dramatically reduce the chances of corona-virus patients needing intensive care, according to the preliminary results of a randomized trial. Hospitalized patients who inhaled a protein designed to stimulate the immune system were 79...

Princess Beatrice marry in secret at Windsor.

July 19, 2020

Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi marry in secret at Windsor. Queen and Prince Andrew attend private royal wedding. It was a royal wedding like no other. There were no carriages, no crowds and no camera crews, for one simple reason: no one knew it was happening. Princess Beatrice, the...

Kelly Preston dies of breast cancer, aged 57.

July 13, 2020

Kelly Preston, actress and wife of John Travolta, dies of breast cancer, aged 57. The actress Kelly Preston has died two years after being diagnosed with breast cancer, her husband John Travolta has announced.The couple had not made Preston’s diagnosis public and Travolta, 66, announced his wife’s death in an...

Johnny Depp discovered he had lost £500m.

July 13, 2020

Johnny Depp discovered he had lost £500m, before alleged attack on Amber Heard. Johnny Depp described how he discovered that a former business manager had stolen more than £500 million and left him with unpaid taxes shortly before he was accused of attacking his wife on her birthday. The star...

The Thread and the Needle history.

June 28, 2020

The Thread and the Needle. Two elements that accompany our evolution. To face a brief history of the evolution of man on earth in any of its aspects, is an exercise of a documented imagination where we intend to introduce the reader into that world with serious information without departing...

Liverpool finally crowned champions.

June 27, 2020

Liverpool finally crowned champions after 30 years of hurt. Liverpool finally crowned champions, after thirty years of hurt. The Liverpool squad gathered at a hotel in Formby, Merseyside, to watch as Manchester City lost to Chelsea. Jürgen Klopp was moved to tears last night after Liverpool finally ended three decades...

Confirmed, Americans can’t make tea.

June 21, 2020

Confirmed, Americans can’t make tea. A viral video has explained the statement. As a Briton in Washington, you’re never far from a conversation about how the special relationship is fading, a 20th-century relic destined for the scrapheap. Britain and America don’t agree on Iran, people fret. We’re not aligned on...

JK Rowling details ‘scars of abuse’.

June 11, 2020

JK Rowling details ‘scars of abuse’ in heartfelt riposte to activists. Accused of transphobia, the author responded with an essay revealing her own past traumas. JK Rowling shared intimate details of her private life as a survivor of sexual assault and an abusive marriage yesterday in an essay in which...

Who discovered the first vaccine?

June 9, 2020

Who discovered the first vaccine? The English Doctor Thomas Dimsdale was nervous. It was the evening of October 12, 1768, and Dimsdale was preparing the empress of Russia, Catherine the Great, for her procedure. From a technical perspective, what he planned was simple, medically sound, and minimally invasive. It required only...

Meghan speaks out on George Floyd killing.

June 4, 2020

Meghan speaks out on George Floyd killing. The Duchess of Sussex has spoken out about her “absolute devastation” at the racial divisions in the US and the death of George Floyd, telling girls graduating at her old high school: “I’m so sorry you have to grow up in a world...

Brief History of Maritime Navigation – Chapter 5

May 24, 2020

Brief History of Maritime Navigation – Chapter 5 V – The great sailboats at the present times. Today technically surpassed the great sailboats are only visible on school ships, museums or in special exhibitions, represented the true conquest of the seas. Suffice it to recall the battle of Trafalgar with Lord...

Care homes were not warned.

May 20, 2020

Care homes were not warned about rising infection rate. Public health officials failed to tell care home operators about the rate of infection in the sector during March and April even though they knew it was rapidly increasing, it has been claimed. Data was being collected by Public Health England from...

President Trump says about drug, deemed a risk.

May 20, 2020

President Trump says about drug that is deemed a risk and he is taking it. Trump revealed that he has been taking hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug whose effectiveness against the coronavirus is unproven. Hydroxychloroquine can cause arrhythmia, but the White House physician says the “potential benefit from treatment outweighed the...

Thérèse Coffey blames scientists.

May 19, 2020

Thérèse Coffey blames scientists for government mistakes over coronavirus. We were given wrong advice, says cabinet minister. A cabinet minister has suggested that mistakes made by the government in its early response to the coronavirus crisis were because ministers got the “wrong” advice from scientists. Thérèse Coffey, the work and...

Brief History of Maritime Navigation – Chapter 4

May 17, 2020

Brief History of Maritime Navigation – Chapter 4 IV - The Vikings. Latin America in particular and Western history in general, I believe they have an eternal debt to Viking culture, because it strongly influenced the whole of Western Europe and part of the Middle East. It is understandable that...

Andrew McAuley disappears on sea kayak trip.

May 17, 2020

Andrew McAuley disappears on sea kayak trip. The storm blew relentlessly, transforming the southern ocean into a heaving sea of mercury. An endless procession of waves appeared on one horizon and vanished on the other, their tops blown sideways into a stinging spray by the howling wind. Amidst the tyranny...

Single French women love the lockdown.

May 12, 2020

Single French women love the lockdown. They were supposed to be miserable on their own. Instead single French women are thrilled to get a break from the pressure to hook up. When France went into lockdown on March 17 there was much concern for the nation’s single women, and particularly...

Brief History of Maritime Navigation – Chapter 3.

May 10, 2020

Brief History of Maritime Navigation - Chapter 3. The Contribution of Orient and South Pacific. At this point we must clarify that Western cultures were detached from the East, not only because of the enormous distances that separated them, but for religious, cultural and above all economic reasons. Marco Polo...

Brief History of Maritime Navigation – Chapter 2

May 3, 2020

Brief History of Maritime Navigation – Chapter 2 The first historical reference. When the Egyptians were able to join several trunks with vines they gave rise to the rafts, which crossed the Nile and even incorporated very primitive bows to improve speed. They sailed downstream driven by the current and went...

Colin Firth said Mr. Darcy prejudiced his career.

May 2, 2020

Colin Firth said Mr. Darcy prejudiced his career. Colin Firth said that the lake scene in the 1995 series affected his future roles The sight of Colin Firth stripped to his underclothes and diving into a lake as Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice made him one of the most...

Prince Harry misses the Army.

May 2, 2020

Prince Harry misses the Army and tells friends his life has been turned upside down. Prince Harry misses the Army and tells friends his life has been turned upside down. After Harry and Meghan announced they were stepping down as senior royals, the Duke was forced to relinquish his military...

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