The Earth’s tectonic plates started moving more than 3.2 billion years ago – just over 1.3 billion years after the Earth first formed and earlier than originally thought. The outermost shell of the Earth is broken down into seven major tectonic plates and many smaller ones that move between 0.4 inches and 6.2 inches per … Read more
Britain’s garden centres could reopen almost immediately – with strict social distancing rules – under proposals being considered by Ministers. Businesses have warned that £200 million-worth of seasonal plants will be destroyed if centres are forced to stay closed until June. That would mean an overall loss of £1.6 billion due to the lockdown, so … Read more
Around the globe TikTok users are creating their own videos to Drake’s latest number one, Toosie Slide. And thanks to the countless renditions, videos using ‘#ToosieSlide’ have reached over three billion plays on the video platform, and given the rapper yet another record. The astonishing amount of views make Drake the fastest rising music trend … Read more
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is once again the richest person in the world, despite his divorce last year which cost him a quarter of his stake in the tech giant. Bezos, 56 – who founded the e-commerce company out of his basement in Seattle, Washington in 1994 – is worth $113billion today, only a $18billion … Read more
Premier League players have been told that clubs are set to lose £1.137 billion over the coronavirus crisis, as talks over wage cuts failed to reach an agreement. A video conference call was held on Saturday afternoon where a presentation from the Premier League to captains and coaches, explained why clubs want their players to … Read more
More than 3.9 billion people, or half of the world’s population, are now being called on to remain in their homes to combat COVID-19, according to an AFP tally on Thursday. The measures – which include compulsory or recommended confinement, curfews and quarantines – are in place in more than 90 countries and territories. The … Read more
Johnson & Johnson vows to make 1 billion doses of coronavirus vaccine by 2021 after signing $450 million contract with the US government The Trump Administration signed a contract with Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceutical branch J&J will get $450 million from the government and, combined with its own funding, $1 billion will go to the … Read more
NATURE Dangerous Earth by Ellen Prager (University of Chicago Press £20, 272 pp) Are we in the right mood just now for reading about natural disasters? Actually, it’s when you think things can’t get any worse that a book explaining just how much worse they can get is genuinely bracing, like a cold-water swim on … Read more
India announces coronavirus lockdown for its entire 1.3 BILLION population from midnight Indian PM Narendra Modi announced a ‘total ban on venturing out of you homes’ He said India had to face a 21-day health lockdown or be set back by 21 years India has reported 482 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and nine deaths … Read more
The FTSE 100 has slumped back to a daily loss of four per cent despite a lunchtime spike following desperate measures by the US and Germany to fight the crippling economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic. London’s share index was down by 1.4 per cent at 5,117 at 1pm – up from 4,949 points and … Read more