Five Minutes Spare

Byron describes how he was struck by the unusual beauty of a woman he met at a ball. She was mourning and wearing a black dress set with glistening spangles that caught his attention. Lord Byron wrote during the […]

The 2018 Wilson Defensive Player of the Year Award winners have been announced and the Oakland Athletics third baseman Matt Chapman took both the overall Defensive Player of the Year, as well as best Third […]

PM co-opts industry leaders to launch five new business forums to deal with business issues post-Brexit.
BBC News – Business

Mass graves contain as many as 12,000 victims have been found in the north and western areas of Iraq around Nineveh, Kirkuk, Salahuddin, and Anbar. These stem from the period when these areas were controlled by […]

Mothers looking for their missing children search for bodies at the site of suspected mass graves.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The 94-year-old is being tried in a juvenile court because he was not yet aged 21 at the time.
BBC News – Europe

Fifteen children and six adults, thought to be Vietnamese, were found among a load of sparkling water.
BBC News – UK

Democratic female candidates make history, but Mr Trump’s Republicans consolidate Senate control.
BBC News – US & Canada

The Oakland Athletics 2018 season was marred by a rash of injuries (21 players landed on the disabled list including 9 starting pitchers) but despite this, they defied the odds and won 97 games to earn an […]

Cameroon is not the most stable of African states of late with several secessionist rebellions springing up in the largely English Speaking Northern regions and the latest atrocity involves the kidnapping of […]