King Charles has paid tribute to the 75th anniversary of HMT Empire Windrush arriving in Britain.Last year, while Prince of Wales, he commissioned a series of 10 portraits that will be part of the Royal Collection and act as a tribute to the contributions of the Windrush generation — he also attended a service at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor in recognition of the anniversary on 22 June.The...
Movie director and submersible maker James Cameron said he wishes he had sounded the alarm earlier about the submersible Titan that imploded on an expedition to the Titanic wreckage, saying he had found the hull design risky.Cameron became a deep-sea explorer in the 1990s while researching and making his Oscar-winning blockbuster Titanic. He owns Triton Submarines, which makes submersibles for...
This morning, an ROV, or remote-operated vehicle, from the vessel Horizon Arctic discovered the tail cone of the Titan submersible approximately 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic on the seafloor. The ROV subsequently found additional debris. In consultation with experts from within the unified command, the waste is consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber.Upon this...
Baseball is not a major sport in Britain, but there is a growing interest in the game. Major League Baseball (MLB) is returning to London this weekend, and introducing new youth programs is seen as a way to boost the sport’s popularity in the country. On Saturday, an MLB game will be held at London Stadium between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs. This is the second time that MLB has...
That’s right. UK inflation unexpectedly stayed at 8.7% in May, defying forecasts for a slowdown to 8.4%. This is bad news for UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who has promised to halve inflation this year, and economically for millions of people across Britain struggling with a cost-of-living crisis. There is an expectation that the Bank of England will raise interest rates by 0.25 percentage...
Recruitment is one of the most important processes in business. It is vital that you are able to attract and recruit talent to your organisation so that you are able to perform to a high level, but there is a lot to consider when bringing new staff on board. Obviously, you want to find someone that is a good fit for your company and have a smooth onboarding process, but you must also consider the...
As music fans descend on Somerset for Glastonbury Festival 2023, eyes are on the weather as much as the bands.An estimated 210,000 music fans will descend on the 900-acre site to see Elton John, the Arctic Monkeys, Guns N’ Roses, Lewis Capaldi, and Lizzo perform at the UK’s most famous festival.Fortunately for those attending this year, forecasters have given a relatively good outlook for 2023...
A new graphic has shown the enormous depth of the Titanic wreckage as the search for a deep-sea vessel that went missing on a dive to explore it continues.There is a race against time to find the lost submersible, named Titan, with the U.S. Coast Guard confirming on Wednesday evening there was an estimated 20 hours left of oxygen on the vessel – around midday U.K. time on Thursday.The sub has...
A TV host has shared his description of how he nearly died on a trip to see the wreck of the Titanic as the desperate search continued to locate five people who disappeared on a submersible making the same journey.Rescuers are in a race against time to locate the Titan sub, operated by OceanGate Expeditions, which was reported missing on Sunday evening in the mid-Atlantic about 435 miles south of...
Britain has been making some bold bets on crypto in recent years. In 2020, the government announced plans to make Britain a “global hub” for cryptoasset technology. And in 2022, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) granted a license to Binance, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges. However, some critics have argued that these bets are misguided. They point out that the crypto market is...