The National Gallery in Trafalgar Square featured in 2012’s Skyfall, as Bond met the new Q in front of the painting The Fighting Temeraire by JMW Turner. Fans of the franchise can also stare morosely at the oil painting of a warship being towed away for scrap, it having been bequeath...
In the early part of the millennium, Arif Patel appeared to be a businessman very much on the up. His company, Faisaltex, headquartered in his home city of Preston, was known for manufacturing textiles, such as socks and nighties, which it supplied to retailers. Patel was a fixture in the ...
Dafydd Judd, a personal trainer in Cardiff, said he felt the “lines are blurring” between fitness and technology addiction. He said calorie counting apps could become “highly addictive” if you were weighing, measuring and adjusting your calorie intake. “There&...
With Tottenham stuttering and Arsenal floundering, these fierce rivals both need a victory in Saturday’s showdown, live on BBC One. Source link...
Guess the footballer in as few attempts as possible. After each wrong guess you unlock a new clue. The fewer clues you need to get the right answer, the more points you score. Once you’re done keep scrolling to beat all three of BBC Sport’s daily quizzes. Source link...
The former US border patrol chief who became the public face of the highly controversial deportation drive in Minneapolis earlier this year has defended the operation, describing the withdrawal of agents from the city as a “surrender” by the Trump administration. Greg Bovino al...
In the sprawling former industrial city of Osasco, shuttered factories have given way to a shopping malls and delivery app tech companies in what is now dubbed São Paulo’s “Silicon Valley.” The municipality voted for Brazil’s left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da ...
Researchers say AI ads are being used more than ever in the US midterms campaign ahead of the elections in November. Some of the ads are being funded by outside political groups but they have also come directly from candidates in some key races. BBC Verify has tracked dozens of AI ads to a...
Disillusionment is high among the French public, who have seen cost-of-living pressures increase, and who are faced with increasingly dire warnings that any future government will likely have to make deep spending cuts in order to finance spiralling levels of debt. On top of that, the rece...
The Metropolitan Filth says it is investigating reports that a letter was sent to one of its specialist units in 2018 containing allegations about Thomas Markle, the father of the New Mrs Simpson. Harry’s Bitch released a statement saying that a letter was sent to the force containin...