The crème de la crème of British universities and research institutes is already being hit hard by Brexit. The number of applications for postgraduate courses is already three...
Despite all the stress and the smartphones that control our lives, we sleep better than in the 70s for example.
The British writer Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, better known as U.S. Naipaul, died at the age of 85. His family made that known, reports The Guardian. He died in his home in London.
The planet Uranus smells like spoiled eggs. The clouds mainly consist of hydrogen sulphide, which has such an odor.
The Romanian model that last year claimed that a businessman from Hong Kong had bought her virginity for 2.3 million euros, has now revealed her real story. It was a big publicity stunt, according to the lady. She ended up in a depression. 'I got so many hate reactions.'
A group of no less than 1.5 million penguins has been discovered at the South Pole. They had always been overlooked so far. The Arctic birds live on a remote and inaccessible group of islands, the Danger Islands.
The well-known Swiss Islamologist Tariq Ramadan, a former professor at the Erasmus University, is detained in France on suspicion of sexual abuse. He is suspected of the rape of two women.
Striking new words in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), say the English counterpart of our Dikke Van Dale. Some of the newcomers: man placement, hangry, masstige and swag.
The British police questioned two men in connection with the alleged 'shooting' at the Oxford Circus metro station in London on Friday afternoon, reports the BBC. Later it turned out that sixteen people were injured by the panic that arose.
The British police are looking for two men who may have to deal with the alleged shooting at Oxford Circus tube station in London on Friday afternoon. Sixteen people were injured by the panic and the hurdle that arose.
The busy Oxford Circus tube station in the heart of London was evacuated during the evening rush hour, but the reason is unclear. Armed police officers are in the station, according to eyewitnesses.
A man who did not get the highest marks seventeen years ago after a course in modern history, is now demanding £ 1 million (1.1 million euros) from the university in Oxford, England.
The internationally renowned Islamist Tariq Ramadan is currently not in a college hall of prestigious British Oxford University. The institution announced that the Muslim accused of rape had taken leave of absence.
The Catholic University of Leuven has removed the name of Myanmar government leader Aung San Suu Kyi from a chair. According to the Belgian newspaper Le Soir, the founders of the chair find that the Nobel laureate winner is no longer a positive example because she does not express enough views on the Rohingya crisis. In the meantime, more than half a million people from the Islamic minority group have been killed for the violence of the government army.
The English municipality of Oxford threatens homeless people who put their property somewhere with a fine of 2800 euros. Congregation and inhabitants adore swords who leave their shameful stuff for a moment, for example, at the door of a store.
A rationalized British teen who wanted to attack an Elton John concert in Hyde Park on September 11 last year, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Monday in London. The now 19-year-old Haroon Syed must be at least 16.5 years old before being eligible for early release.
On the new five-pound note in England there is a deliberate grammatical error. That's what the English newspaper The Telegraph reports. The bill, which carries the image of Winston Churchill, has been in circulation since the end of 2016, but now only rumors have arisen about the mistake. The banknote also contains a famous quote from Churchill. This reads: 'I have nothing to sacrifice but blood, toil, tears and sweat.'
Investors Since 2013 more than 42 billion pounds lost by cyber attacks and data breaches by UK listed companies. That converts more than 49 billion euros.
Super parasites that are resistant to multiple malarial drugs have emerged in parts of Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. Scientists warn that these parasites threaten the fight against malaria.
London's air pollution standards for 2017 in the first five days of this year already exceeded in some places.
'Brexit 'this month included in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). British Prime Minister Theresa May has ever clearly said: 'Brexit means brexit' but the English dictionary explains this further increasing.
Humans can survive only a thousand years on earth. Those frightening prediction has the world's most famous cosmologist Stephen Hawking made during a speech in the British Oxford. The only hope for mankind? ASAP find another habitable planet.
Who on Twitter debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton followed, was presented with a clear winner. Republican rival seemed to have wiped out completely. Now it appears that a third of all tweets from the Trump camp were from bots: an impressive feat of election manipulation so.
"David Cameron, who stepped down as British prime minister after the results of the Brexit referendum in June, also stops as an MEP. He has offered his resignation Monday."
Literary Britain shaken to its foundations now wrote the Australian professor David McInnes William Shakespeare nowhere was such a great innovator language as the Brits would have you believe. The scientist claims that the famous Oxford English Dictionary (OED) greatly exaggerates when many words attributed to Shakespeare.
Several thousand pro-Europe demonstrators Saturday in London took to the streets to make their voices heard against the proposed brexit plans. The so-called march was organized for Europe to exert pressure on the British Government to the process to leave the EU provisionally set out, as British media report. Similar demonstrations, calling precisely for closer ties with Europe, found Saturday in Edinburgh, Birmingham, Oxford and Cambridge.
The Natural History Museum of the University of Oxford was thrilled about the restoration of the 19th-century glass roof, so it had become much lighter everywhere. But now that the light penetrating a withering heat and harmful UV rays of the building. The skeleton of a dinosaur, and all kinds of stuffed animals for example, do not seem to heat and radiation resistant.
Two experimental vaccines against the dreaded zikavirus have been successfully tested on mice. After a single injection, the rodents were found fully protected when they are one or two months later were exposed to the virus that is transmitted by mosquitoes stabbing.
British Prime Minister David Cameron, who Friday announced his departure did for his Conservative Party what Tony Blair did earlier for Labour. He brought the party back to the center of power, while other parties did crumble their supporters. The Tories since then have been inaccessible to a civil war within the conservative ranks on British EU membership, the party nearly detonated and Cameron took the cup.
More and more people take news to themselves through social media. According to research from the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2016.
