Diamonds have fascinated people for a long time. This particular stone is highly coveted by people across the world, and also extremely hard won from the earth. For every person happy with their new diamond ring, there is someone who has suffered enormously to drag it out of the ground....
African architecture is one of those subjects which is too often neglected, whether purposefully or not. The continent was our original birthplace and has been the site of some of the most important and fascinating work in history....
On August the 28th 2017 Kenya became the latest country to ban plastic bags. The country, which circulates 100 million plastic bags annually through supermarkets, has imposed hard-hitting sanctions against anyone found breaking the new environmental law....
Listing is when specific landscapes and historic buildings are recognised as special interest and placed on the Statutory List of Buildings. These buildings are protected for the current and future generations to understand England’s intriguing history and cannot be altered without permission from the local planning authority....
Obvious news is obvious; if we wish to avoid a self-inflicted terminator inspired apocalypse then we really should think long and hard about whether we should allow autonomous artificial intelligence to be allowed in warfare....
Much like almost everywhere else in the world, the Netherlands had its fair share of economic problems following the 2008 financial crisis. House prices fell by more than 7.5% over the year in real terms and it took until 2014 for them to recover, according to data from Nederlandse Vereniging van Makelaars (the Dutch Association of Real Estate Agents)....
One of the greatest wonders in life is travel. With the whole world to explore we love nothing more than booking a holiday, often with the promise of sun, sea, relaxation, and of course to soak up the local culture. But as population swells....
Earlier this week, the Australian city Melbourne was named ‘the most liveable city’ for the seventh consecutive year by the Economist Intelligence Unit....
As the world becomes ever more interconnected and reliant on computing power, the need for massive data centres becomes ever more pronounced....
There’s now under two weeks left until the transfer window closes at midnight on the 31st August but already Premier League transfer spending has broken records once again with spending passing the £1 billion mark for the third season in a row.
Green architecture has been a popular trend in recent years with the urban population growing and governments across the world putting sustainability at the top of their agenda. Amongst the most intriguing pieces of green architecture today....
A favourite British tradition, and a fond childhood memory for many is the magical sound of the ice cream van driving past your house. The pleading look at mum and dad to hand over a pound coin in the hope of purchasing the all-time classic 99 (with a flake of course) is an all too familiar feeling – but what does the ice cream van represent today....
We’ve had a good run. After nearly 15,000 years of human civilisation stretching back around 12,000 BCE in the Levant region of southwest Asia, it seems that President Donald J Trump has decided that, actually, being alive isn’t that good....
As a nation there is no doubt that we like to shop. With the emergence of online retailers offering us the ability to window shop around the clock our spending habits are changing as we embrace new, easier ways to feed our retail cravings....
The arrival of so-called ‘meatless’ meat on the worldwide culinary scene has been prophesied for a long time. It represents something of a holy grail for those who are determined to reduce mankind’s consumption of animal products to something approaching sustainable levels....
Battery storage is all set to be one of the overriding concerns of the energy industry in the future. The technology is already snowballing and its popularity will only increase as the world continues to transition to a renewable energy future....
Net worth: $15.6 billion. Alumni of Stanford University. Founder of PayPal. Elon Musk is now one of the most recognisable and famous billionaires in the world after, perhaps, Donald Trump and Iron man. He’s currently the CEO of SpaceX, Tesla, SolarCity, Hyperloop, OpenAI and The Boring Company....
Chaos! Carnage! Apocalypse! Ok the last one hasn’t been printed by any UK newspapers when reporting on airport delays this week, but you’d be forgiven for assuming they had....
The fast food market has historically been dominated by burger joints, pizza places and chicken shops, with industry giants like McDonald’s setting the precedent in junk food ideals. But as society becomes more and more concerned with what we consume, where it comes from and the implications it may have on our health, the face of fast food is changing....
There was surprise and more than a few sniggers in Washington DC last week when Donald Trump’s, now famous, communications director Sean Spicer decided to resign his position, apparently unhappy at the appointment of new director Anthony Scaramucci (or as he’s known in DC, the mooch)....
