Facilitated by a new range of travel apps, passengers and pilots are becoming increasingly connected. With just a simple search you can find out if any light aircraft are flying in your local area with available seating. It can be an increasingly cheap mode of transport, and more people are looking at it as a plausible alternative....
High rise construction is taking place all over the world and has been driven by rapid urbanisation in recent years. Building vertically is no longer limited to large financial districts in the major cities with countries now responding to the droves of people moving to the city every year.
In an attempt to understand what drives abusive and threatening social media users, Sky news confronted two people who had publicly called for the hanging of Conservative MP Anna Soubry for voting against the government on the recent Brexit bill, in which a fellow Remain supporting MP had tabled an amendment calling for Parliament to have the final say over any final deal....
Describing itself as “The bank of the future”, digital banking platform Monzo claims to be bringing a new kind of banking to the masses, asserting on its homepage “this is banking like never before.”
Japanese internet service provider GMO Internet Group is looking to introduce a new payment option for their employees. It will allow employees to receive a proportion of their salaries in bitcoin, the cryptocurrency which is now worth four times as much as an ounce of gold.
It is no secret that the global meat industry is unimaginably wasteful. The cost to the planet of our escalating meat production is extreme, and the price animals themselves pay throughout their short lives and death is a cruel one....
Luxury high-tech sleep company Simba are aiming to reinvent late night travelling with the induction of their new cutting edge ‘Snoozeliner’....
The European Union and a worldwide collection of financial and insurance giants have decided to give the planet an early Christmas present by upping their investments in the fight against destructive climate change....
Born from the first ever pizza Margherita which was invented in Naples in 1889, Pizza is one of the world’s most popular dishes....
Olive oil is a staple part of the diet for millions of people across the world. The olive tree is native to the Mediterranean basin and there is evidence that people have been cultivating and collecting the fruit since at least 8000 BC. After 10,000 years countries such as Spain, Italy, Morocco and Greece are still the home of olive oil production which has become a global industry....
If you’ve looked for housing in Sydney in the last five years, chances are you may have found the whole process a bit of a challenge. With prices rising by as much as 60% in that period, it’s clear many simply can’t get their foot in the door. The list of reasons why this has occurred is not insignificant. Record low interest rates and sizeable tax breaks for both local and overseas investors seem to be the main arbiters....
Retail giant Amazon has finally rolled out its services to Australia in time for Christmas, offering a range of services which includes its popular one-day delivery. The launch has been met with a mixture of responses with some analysts uncertain whether Amazon will be able to adapt areas of the business to meet consumer expectations....
The Queen today welcomed the largest ship ever operated by the Royal Navy, HMS Queen Elizabeth. The first of two aircraft carriers to be commissioned by the Royal Navy, HMS Queen Elizabeth will enable the UK’s armed forces to project military capability to any would-be aggressors across the world....
The so named ‘Peace Diamond’ of Sierra Leone has successfully been sold at auction for $6.5m, hopefully marking a new era for the West African country. Peace Diamond looks to be a positive change for the people of Sierra Leone, and one that can be celebrated in the sector....
Many cities around the world are seeing their populations swell as more and more people become urbanised and move to the most built up areas. In response to the inevitable housing difficulties this creates, cities are building vertically instead of horizontally in an attempt to maximise the available space; Manchester is no exception to this trend.
A Swiss village has announced that it intends to pay new residents up to £53,000 just to move there in order to combat its decreasing population issue....
There are many controversial medicines out there and the traditional Chinese remedy Ejiao is no exception....
Often touted as one of the most advanced, secure and competent firms, Apple is not often subject to scrutiny. However the tables have turned for the tech giants this week as it clambers to fix an almighty security flaw....
Matt Steiner and Christian Wong of Florida, USA, are perhaps not the types of entrepreneurs you’d expect to meet in a board room or an episode of the apprentice. They’re what might be referred to as unconventional, working from Stein’s mother’s dining room table and only working on a Thursday....
The Guardian Cities column recently reported on a fascinating aspect of Japan’s built environment – the country’s preoccupation with prefabricated houses. Indeed, this feature of the Japanese housing market is so entrenched that it is not uncommon for homes in the country to hold no value after about 30 years due to a model where houses older than that are simply knocked down and replaced....
