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Apple revenue falls for first time since 2003
27Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Technology

Apple revenue falls for first time since 2003

    Apple reported a 13% drop in its second quarter revenue on Tuesday as sales of iPhones slipped. The technology giant reported quarterly sales of $50.56bn (£34.39bn) down from $58bn last year - the first fall in sales for the company since 2003. Apple sold 51.2 million iPhones during the quarter, down from 61.2 million in the same quarter of 2015. China was a particular weak spot - sales there fell 26%. Results were also hit by the impact of a stronger dollar. Apple shares fell 8% in afterhours trading. Its shares have fallen close to 20% over the last twelve months. Apple's chief executive Tim Cook said the company performed well "in the face of strong macroeconomic headwinds". Apple's quarterly profit slipped to $10.5bn from $13.5bn. Nevertheless, it announced it would re...
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Glamorous politics student who tried to escape speeding fine by paying fixer JAILED for lying to police
27Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Glamorous politics student who tried to escape speeding fine by paying fixer JAILED for lying to police

    A glamorous uni graduate who tried to dodge a speeding fine by paying a legal expert to make it go away been JAILED. Ayesha Ahmed - who has 2:1 in international relations and politics - has ruined a potentially promising career for the sake of not paying a small fine and taking three points on her licence. Ahmed, of Dudley, West Mids., was caught speeding in her BMW twice within five minutes by a mobile camera van parked near her home in July 2014. But rather than accept a driver awareness course for travelling at 39mph and 40mph in a 30mph zone, the 27-year-old graduate paid £450 to a man who claimed he could exploit a "legal loophole" enabling her to escape punishment. Ahmed's notices from police were then returned to enforcement officers, falsely claiming a woman from W...
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Immigration Bill: MPs vote against child refugee amendment
26Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Immigration Bill: MPs vote against child refugee amendment

    The Independent Two million refugee children are already holed up in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan (Picture: [copyright]) MPs’ have voted against an attempt to compel the Government to offer sanctuary in the UK to 3,000 unaccompanied child refugees from Europe. Labour peer Lord Dub’s amendment to the Immigration bill was rejected 294 to 276, giving a majority of 18, following a Commons debate on Monday. The Government resisted defeat despite suggestions Tory rebels may defy their party and back the Lord Dub's proposal who was saved from the Nazis and brought to London on the Kindertransport programme and led a parliamentary campaign to take in youngsters from camps near Calais and elsewhere in Europe who, he says, are hugely vulnerable to exploitation, sexual violence and dis...
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Junior doctors strike: When does the walkout start? Why are doctors striking? What services will still be available?
26Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Junior doctors strike: When does the walkout start? Why are doctors striking? What services will still be available?

    A picket line outside the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, as thousands of junior doctors begun the first all-out strike in the history of the NHS after the Health Secretary said the Government would not be "blackmailed" into dropping its… Junior doctors are once again walking out on strike over a new contract being imposed by the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt. Here’s everything you need to know about it. What time does the junior doctors’ strike start? This week’s junior doctors strike lasts for two working days. It starts at 8am on Tuesday 26 April, and goes on until 5pm the same day. It then resumes at 8am on Wednesday 27 April and continues until 5pm that day, when it ends. Will emergency care still be available during the strike? Junior doctors will not be provid...
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BHS paid more than £25m to owner in 13 months before administration: Denies speculation it is close to collapse
26Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

BHS paid more than £25m to owner in 13 months before administration: Denies speculation it is close to collapse

    Almost 11,000 jobs are at risk after BHS called in administrators on Monday, the UK’s biggest high street failure since the collapse of Woolworths in 2008. Sources with knowledge of BHS’s finances say that the payments to Retail Acquisitions included £2.8m in management fees, £2.1m in salaries and wages, £11m in legal and professional fees and £10m in interest payments. BHS is battling to raise £100m to pay staff wages and continue trading, with 10,000 jobs at risk at the struggling department store chain. The retailer is still trying to obtain emergency funding almost four weeks after creditors approved a survival plan that involved landlords accepting deep cuts to the rent on stores. The man behind Retail Acquisitions is Dominic Chappell, a former racing driver who has b...
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British police department perplexed by giant foot shaped vehicle
26Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

British police department perplexed by giant foot shaped vehicle

    Members of a British police department were left scratching their heads when an officer snapped a picture of an unusual motor vehicle -- a giant foot. The photo, posted to Twitter by police in London's Wandsworth borough, shows a man driving the giant, motorized foot Sunday while a woman in a captain's uniform assists him. Spotted near Balham Tube, a typical day in Wandsworth...(anyone have an explanation?) the tweet read. Twitter users dug into the mystery of the mobile foot and discovered the footmobile was a promotion for the Wandsworth Arts Fringe festival. The festival said the foot was masterminded by the Ministry of Silly Ideas. Another Twitter user who spotted the strange vehicle riding around town shared -- ahem -- footage of the vehicle in motion.
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US officer was stabbed to death at his own home in Dhaka: Ansar al-Islam claimed responsibility
26Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

US officer was stabbed to death at his own home in Dhaka: Ansar al-Islam claimed responsibility

    Two cases were filed one by family over the murders and the other by police for assault on a cop in connection with the gruesome Kalabagan double murders. Minhaj Mannan, elder brother of slain LGBT magazine editor Xulhaz Mannan, sued unknown people over the twin murders with Kalabagan Police Station. In a Tweet from an account Ansar Al Islam, the suspected militant group spread two separate messages today, one in Bangla and the other in English, claiming the responsibility. Murder of Xulhaz drew strong condemnation from local and international quarters including the United States, United Kingdom and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Bangladesh unit of al-Qaeda in the Indian Sub-Continent, Ansar Al Islam, has allegedly claimed responsibility of murdering a LGBT ma...
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Whether it’s Brexit or remain: David Cameron is not going anywhere
25Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Whether it’s Brexit or remain: David Cameron is not going anywhere

    What a long distance David Cameron has travelled in the course of his party leadership. It is almost 10 years since he caused offence in Washington with a speech on the fifth anniversary of 9/11, in which he sought to distinguish himself both from neo-conservatives and from the presidential poodle that Tony Blair had supposedly become. “We will serve neither our own, nor America’s, nor the world’s interests if we are seen as America’s unconditional associate in every endeavour,” he said. “Liberty grows from the ground,” he further insisted. “It cannot be dropped from the air by an unmanned drone.” In the White House, there were those who wondered what sort of friend to America this prospective prime minister could conceivably turn out to be. They need not have worried. On ...
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108 years old message in bottle is oldest ever found
25Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

108 years old message in bottle is oldest ever found

    The oldest message in a bottle spent 108 years, 4 months and 18 days at sea before it was finally delivered, reports LiveScience.com After being cast into the sea by the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (MBA) in November 1906, the message washed up at Amrum Island, in Germany, on April 17, 2015. This year, Guinness World Records recognized it as the oldest message in a bottle ever found. One of more than 1,000 bottles thrown into the North Sea by marine biologist George Parker Bidder, the bottle was part of a research project on the patterns of ocean currents. More than a century later, a letter containing an original postcard from one of his bottles arrived in the mail at the MBA's Plymouth laboratory in the United Kingdom. A German woman discovered the...
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Facebook was the victim of a backdoor hack
25Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Technology

Facebook was the victim of a backdoor hack

    Even a tech giant like Facebook isn't immune to significant security breaches. Devcore's Orange Tsai recently discovered that someone had installed a backdoor on one of Facebook's corporate servers (that is, not the social network itself) in a bid to swipe workers login details. While it's not clear how successful the script-based exploit was, Tsai noted that the file transfer app hosted on the server had several vulnerabilities that effectively gave any intruder free rein. The attacker could have checked employee email, for instance, or even connected to Facebook's virtual private network to get access to the company's inner workings. Thankfully, this is all past tense. You're only hearing about this now because Tsai reported the bugs to Facebook (to get a bounty, natural...
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