Four famous amateur model grandmothers took off their masks during a saunter down the streets of Beijing on Thursday to demonstrate life returning to normal as the COVID-19 pandemic eases. Glamma Beijing, a group of four women who met during a modelling training course after retiring 20 years ago, became an internet sensation in China […]
Arts, Culture & Books
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s prediction comes true
With his album sitting on top of the Billboard charts and on Itunes Australia, UK, France, Turkey. Mexico and Switzerland Mahmood Khan’s work has taken the music scene into a whole new dimension. Creating a mainstream global music brand with solid songwriting as its foundation coupled with top of the line craftsmanship, production and feel, […]
Stories of survival, spirituality and oneness through song
This far-away distant southern land seems to be making giant leaps and becoming the most extraordinary example by embracing innovation and spirituality. At the forefront of this genre is Mahmood Khan who writes about stories of survival and spirituality and oneness. Mahmood’s future releases include Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – the lost tapes project. Fans […]
For the art collector with everything, the $1.5 million COVID mask
Art rather than ostentation is the rationale behind the world’s most expensive coronavirus mask, say the Israeli jewellers who are crafting the $1.5 million object for an unnamed U.S.-based client. Made out of 18 carat gold and studded with 3,600 black and white diamonds, the mask will be fitted with an N99 filter to offer […]
Telemedicine shines during pandemic but will glow fade?
Racked with anxiety, Lauren Shell needed to talk to her cancer doctor. But she lives at least an hour away and it was the middle of her workday. It was also the middle of a pandemic. Enter telemedicine. The 34-year-old Leominster, Massachusetts, resident arranged a quick video visit through the app Zoom in May with […]
What do the kids say? K-12 students sound off on school
Parents have weighed in on reopening schools. Teachers have weighed in. Public health experts, too, along with cities, states and President Donald Trump. But what about the kids themselves? As the grown-ups fret, kindergartners to high schoolers faced with a range of scenarios for virtual and in-person classes are expressing both fear and glee over […]
Priced out of services, Venezuelans turn creative for water and gas
Venezuelans are steadily losing access to cheap basic services from water to cooking gas that have helped them survive economic crisis, forcing many to find creative solutions and adding pressure during the coronavirus quarantine. Services have long been near-free due to heavy subsidies by the ruling Socialist Party, which has overseen a six-year economic collapse […]
Summer jobs for young people are vanishing with the pandemic
Sara Buie lined up a summer lifeguard job to help pay for a new laptop, textbooks and a backpack for her freshman year at Virginia´s James Madison University. But the coronavirus pandemic closed her community pool. She tried offering online tutoring to middle school and high school students. But only one parent responded before disappearing. […]
Shooting stars to light up night skies with 150 meteors every hour
A display of celestial fireworks is expected to peak before dawn on Thursday as the Earth passes through a cloud of cometary dust, producing up to 150 meteors every hour. If skies are clear, the Perseid meteor shower should be visible across the UK from about midnight until 5.30am UK time on Thursday, according to […]
Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s £91 million expedition-ready Sherpa joins the Qatari royal family
Falmouth Harbour turned into a superyacht playground today as Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s luxury vessel and a ‘floating palace’ that ‘belongs to the Qatari royal family’ joined hundreds of thousands of staycationers in Cornwall. The billionaire financier’s £91million, 243ft expedition ship was dwarfed by the Emir’s £200million, 410ft monster as they docked near the 644ft cruise […]