London: The Buckingham Palace announced on Monday that King Charles III has been diagnosed with cancer, a revelation made following his recent treatment at the London Clinic for a benign enlarged prostate. A statement from Buckingham Palace: https://t.co/zmYuaWBKw6 📷 Samir Hussein pic.twitter.com/xypBLHHQJb — The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) February 5, 2024 The Buckingham Palace in a […]
London: Britain on Tuesday said it would spend more than 100 million pounds ($125 million) to launch nine new research hubs in artificial intelligence (AI) and train regulators about the technology as per agencies reports. “AI is moving fast, but we have shown that humans can move just as fast,” technology minister Michelle Donelan said […]
Britain’s Prince William had served up a surprise to hungry citizens when he dished out environment-friendly burgers from a food truck in south London. The heir to the throne, who established the annual Earthshot Prize to aid in the development of solutions to significant environmental problems, distributed “Earthshot Burgers” in a video posted on Sunday […]
London: Rishi Sunak is set to be Britain‘s Prime Minister after he won the race to lead the Conservative Party, Reuters reported. Sunak, 42, will become the country’s youngest leader in modern times – and it’s third in less than two months – as he takes over during one of the most turbulent eras in […]
Queen Elizabeth, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and the nation’s figurehead for seven decades, died at her home in Scotland aged 96 on Thursday. News that Queen Elizabeth II UK’s longest-serving monarch has died spread across the globe since she was well known and loved by many. “The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon,” Buckingham Palace […]
British-Polish entrepreneur Wojtek Paprota announced that Walletmor is the first ever business to sell bank card chips that can be implanted into humans. The company’s mission is to remove ‘bulky wallets’ and allow people to pay for things with a wave of their hand. Walletmor’s website states that implants cost €199 (AED737) and entail a three-step process. Firstly, customers must […]
A city that fell into the sea centuries ago has been found after decades of searching. The medieval port town of Ravenser Odd, also sometimes known as Ravensrodd, was located in East Yorkshire at the mouth of the Humber Estuary. In its glory days, it was a more important town than Hull, but that all […]
A 99-year-old woman has recently become Britain’s oldest learner driver. According to the motoring association, MotorEasy, the 99-year-old is also joined by a 97-year-old and two 96-year-olds, who have all applied for their provisional licences since 2016. Duncan McClure Fisher, founder, and CEO of MotorEasy, said, “The saying goes that you are as young as […]
Some 73 feet below the traffic and bustle of London’s Piccadilly lies a silent warren of corridors and pitch-black rooms, rarely seen, rarely visited, but which played a vital role in the course of 20th-century history. Now, the opportunity has come round again to slip behind the door of the abandoned Down Street Tube station […]
Over four years post U.K.’s vote to break from the bloc, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen struck a historic deal Thursday on new Brexit trading arrangements, narrowly avoiding a disastrous no-deal, after tensions soared earlier this year. The government said it had reached a “zero tariff-zero quota deal” with the […]
In yet another sobering hurdle for Great Britain — thought to finally be on the cusp of recovery from their leaden pandemic blues — a new strain of the coronavirus has cropped across the nation, thought to be more infectious than the original. Since the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine was green-lit for the ‘world’s first’ roll out […]
