Tag: world

Selfridges’ billionaire owners, the Weston family, have launched a formal auction to sell the historic department store business. It is understood that advisers at Credit Suisse will start looking for a buyer, with the company valued at as much as £4 billion. They will send out information memoranda – documents used to pitch the...

26.07.2021

Monolith appears on Isle of Wight beach

A monolith has mysteriously appeared in Britain – just days after similar ones were spotted in the US and Romania. The unusual mirrored structure was discovered on the Isle of Wight, an island off the south coast of England. Resident Alexia Fishwick said she “was dumbstruck” when she came across...

07.12.2020

Ozone hole over Antarctic ‘largest and deepest’ in recent years

THE ozone hole over the Antarctic has reached its maximum annual size and is one of the largest and deepest in recent years, scientists monitoring the protective shield have warned. The ozone layer, in the upper part of the Earth’s atmosphere, absorbs most of the incoming ultraviolet radiation from the...

08.10.2020

Coronavirus UK: Weekly death rate increases

Deaths involving COVID-19 have increased for the second consecutive week in England and Wales. In England and Wales, there were 139 Covid deaths – 40 more than the 99 in the previous week according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). This accounted for 1.5 per...

29.09.2020

China’s Covid-19 vaccine could be ready ‘as soon as November’

As global coronavirus cases neared 30 million on Tuesday, a senior health official in China said she expected a vaccine to be publicly available as early as November this year. According to the Johns Hopkins University Covid-19 tracker, which relies on official government data, there are 29,190,588 confirmed infections worldwide. Deaths stand...

15.09.2020

London moves up the list of most expensive cities

London has jumped up four places in a global study of the world’s most expensive cities to live. The UK capital made this year’s top 20 in Mercer’s 2020 Cost of Living Survey, which covers 209 cities across the globe. All UK cities included in the annual survey climbed in this year’s ranking,...

09.06.2020

UK to bring in two-week quarantine for air passengers

Air passengers arriving in Britain will soon have to quarantine for a fortnight as part of a move to avoid a second peak of the coronavirus. Airlines UK, the trade body for UK registered airlines, has confirmed to Sky News that the move will be introduced by the government for...

09.05.2020

Flypast over London as the UK marks the 75th anniversary of VE Day

The country will remember VE Day at 11am today with a two-minute silence led by Prince Charles. Prince Charles is also due to read extracts from his grandfather King George VI’s diary from 8 May, reflecting on the Nazi surrender after six years of war. At 3pm this afternoon, the...

08.05.2020

Millions of people protest for global “climate strike” day

Thousands of people are protesting across the UK, with pupils leaving schools and workers downing tools as part of a global “climate strike” day. Millions are taking part around the world with rallies in British cities including Glasgow, Manchester and London, urging “climate justice”. Anna Taylor, 18, a co-founder of UK...

20.09.2019

Trump promises the UK a ‘very big trade deal’

President Trump has promised a “very big trade deal” with the UK, saying its departure from the EU will be like losing “an anchor round the ankle”. Mr Trump was speaking after a breakfast meeting with Mr Johnson at the G7 summit in Biarritz in France. But Mr Johnson said...

25.08.2019

PM calls for attention on “horrific” forest fires at G7 Summit

Boris Johnson has vowed to use the gathering of world leaders at the G7 summit to draw attention to the “horrific loss of habitats and species around the world”. Speaking ahead of the meeting of the world’s major industrial nations, the Prime Minister said that “we are going through an extinction of diversity, of...

24.08.2019

Slowest growth rate for China in decades

CHINA’S economy grew at its slowest rate since 1990, stoking fears about the impact on the global economy. China expanded at 6.6% in 2018, official figures out Monday showed. In the three months to December, the economy grew 6.4% from a year earlier, down from 6.5% in the previous...

26.01.2019

137 women are killed daily by domestic abuse

New data released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) states on average of 137 women across the world are killed by a partner or family member every day. They say it makes “the home the most likely place for a woman to be killed”. More than...

03.12.2018

İngilizler Bodrum’a geri dönüyor

Bodrum Tanıtma Vakfı, Bodrum’u tanıtmak amacıyla 2018 yılı güz döneminde Fransa ve İtalya‘dan sonra İngiltere‘nin Başkenti Londra‘da, 05-07 Kasım 2018 tarihleri arasında düzenlenen Londra World Travel Market WTM Turizm fuarına katıldı. Fuarda ziyaretçi ve katılımcı sayısının yanı sıra oluşturduğu iş hacmiyle de dünyanın en önemli fuarları arasında yer alan World Travel Market WTM Turizm Fuarı bu...

08.11.2018

North Cyprus and Turkey will be represented at World Travel Market

NORTH Cyprus and Turkey will be represented at the World Travel Market (WTM), which will begin on Monday at the ExCel Centre in London. It has been clarified that there will be 186 countries represented at the fair. Both countries Tourism Ministers, Fikri Ataoğlu and Numan Kurtuluş attended to the...

01.11.2018

KKTC, World Travel Market 2018 Turizm Fuarı’nda tanıtılacak

KKTC’NİN de katılacağı geleneksel World Travel Market (WTM) Londra Turizm Fuarı, 5 Kasım Pazartesi günü başlayacak. KKTC Turizm ve Çevre Bakanı Fikri Ataoğlu, 5-7 Kasım tarihleri arasında Londra’da düzenlenecek olan World Travel Market 2018 Turizm Fuarı’nda KKTC’yi temsil edecek. Dünyanın ikinci büyük turizm fuarı olarak kabul edilen WTM (World Travel...

01.11.2018

World Cup uplifts supermarket sales

SUPERMARKET sales has increased at their fastest rate this year with demand due to the World Cup and the warm weather, research suggests. Market reseach firm Kantar Worldpanel asserted food and drink sales in the 12 weeks to 15 July rose by 3.6% from a year earlier. During the week...

31.07.2018

Çocuğunuz için ‘World of Kids Academy’

LONDRA’DA çocuklar için çeşitli sosyal aktiviteler düzenleyen ve çocukların gelişimi için birçok servis hizmeti sunan ‘World of Kids Academy’ Londra’da düzenlenen bir tanışma etkinliği ile çocukların ve ailelerin hizmetine sunulduğunu duyurdu. Firmanın sahibi Serpil Keçialan, düzenlenen etkinliğin çok keyifli geçtiğini belirterek şunları söyledi: “Her şey; motivasyon sebebim, yaşama sevincim ve...

13.07.2018