President Barack Obama raises threat of nuclear terrorism April 2, 2016 Terrorist groups obtaining nuclear weapons is one of the greatest threats to global security at current, President Barack Obama has warned. Speaking at his final nuclear security summit, Obama warned of "madmen" that could inflict damage on hundreds of thousands of innocent people using plutonium the size of an apple. "The danger of a terrorist [...]
UK steel crisis: Prime Minister David Cameron raises issue with Chinese President Xi Jinping April 2, 2016 Amid the ongoing steel crisis, Prime Minister David Cameron has talked through his concerns with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Downing Street confirmed that during a dinner at the White House, Cameron told Jinping that the two countries needed to work together. It emerged last week that the UK has blocked efforts in the EU to impose [...]
EU referendum: Will leaving the European Union lead to more sovereignty for the UK? April 2, 2016 Prime Minister David Cameron lambasts claims by the pro-Leave campaign that leaving the EU will bring sovereignty back to the UK. He says that if Britain leaves the EU, you will end up with the "illusion of sovereignty, but not the power, you don’t have control and you can’t get things done". That stands in [...]
From the steel crisis and the living wage to stamp duty changes: Here’s what got us talking this week April 1, 2016 A plane got hijacked (but it all turned out to be something of a farce). Then a rival airline thought it could be a good selling point. And with London's weather warming up, Ben & Jerry's decided to give away free ice cream in the name of democracy. Here's what got us talking 1) Men of Steel [...]
40 years of Apple: This video makes you realise quite how much Apple has accomplished since it was founded April 1, 2016 It's Apple's 40th birthday today – and to mark the occasion, the company was flying the Jolly Roger above its headquarters in California this morning. That's based on founder Steve Jobs' observation, in 1983, that "it's better be a pirate than join the navy" – after which the team designing the Macintosh flew the pirate [...]
Amazon and Microsoft in talks to park in self-driving car space with cloud computing April 1, 2016 Amazon and Microsoft are in discussions to provide cloud computing to a digital mapping business owned by a group making self-driving cars. BMW, Audi and Daimler acquired Here Maps from Nokia for €2.8bn (£1.97bn) last year. Read more: Audi, BMW and Daimler deal accelerates driverless car plans Reuters has reported that the technology companies are in talks [...]
Presented without comment: These are Britain’s cheapest cities for train travel April 1, 2016 The cost of train travel varies hugely depending on where you live in Britain, according to research released today – and although Londoners love nothing more than to complain vociferously about how much their train fares set them back, it turns out the cheapest places for train commuters are big cities. Glaswegians pay the least for their [...]
Area guide: Woolwich – why it’s tomorrow’s town April 1, 2016 It’s an unfortunate consequence of over-enthusiastic estate agents that an area described as “up-and-coming” is often, well, getting there but taking its sweet time about it. Woolwich was one such place for a long time, but 2016 is the year SE18 arrives on the property scene. “Woolwich has been touted as up-and-coming for the last [...]
How to blush your way to a brighter home using spring pastels April 1, 2016 The evenings are lighter, and it suddenly feels wrong to be putting on sombre-coloured winter coats and boots. The magnolia trees are in bloom, their distinctive petals a delicate blush of soft pink. And it’s this pretty pastel that stores have heralded as the interiors story of the season. The idea is to keep tones [...]