May 2, 2015
Airport Customs holding up aid in Nepal
The United Nations has urged Nepal to relax customs controls which it says are holding up deliveries of aid to survivors of last week's earthquake. UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said Nepal had a duty to provide faster customs clearance for…
May 2, 2015
Barbra Streisand’s Dog Attacks Flight Attendant
Barbra Streisand's cute dog Samantha went wild during a plane trip from New York to Washington D.C earlier this week. The 12-year-old Coton de Tulear bit a female flight attendant of the singer-songwriter's private jet. Based on Barbra's…
May 2, 2015
From Finland, the 1,341-horsepower electric supercar
Finland is famous for its reindeer and global leadership in education, and at least one of those seems to be paying off in the automotive realm. At April’s 2015 Top Marques auto show in Monaco, Finnish company Toroidion unveiled the 1MW Concept, a…
May 2, 2015
The 2015 Turks & Caicos Hospitality Adventure Programme has been launched
The Turks & Caicos Hospitality Adventure Programme has been launched, one that would see young entrepreneurs contribute to the development of the tourism product here in the TCI through a series of summer camps, organized by the Hospitality…
May 1, 2015
Ben E King: R&B legend dies at 76
R&B and soul singer Ben E King, best known for the classic song Stand By Me, has died at the age of 76. King started his career in the late 1950s with The Drifters, singing on hits including There Goes My Baby and Save The Last Dance For Me.…