The rust-coloured animal was seen by a tourist at Uhuru peak, the mountain’s highest summit between 5,730 and 5,895 metres above sea level where temperatures range from minus four to 15 degrees centigrade. The sighting has baffled animal scientists who have questioned what motivated the dog to scale such heights and how he could have ...
A shopper on Broadway, New York. Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images Debt crises and financial market turmoil have triggered sharp falls in consumer confidence in Britain, the rest of Europe and the US, threatening to plunge western economies into a downward spiral. Pessimism among Britons has reached levels usually seen in a recession, while US consumer ...
Women executives may have to wait 98 years for pay parity with men, according to a report. Photograph: Sophia Evans for the Guardian Women may have had equal voting rights since 1928, but they may have to wait another 98 years for parity in pay, research has found. While the salaries of female executives are ...
Unveiled in Europe several months ago, Vodafone Smart is a low-end Android smartphone manufactured by Huawei.According to the guys over at AndroidOS.in, the smartphone is expected to be launched in India by the end of September. Although the carrier has yet to announce the phone’s price, rumors has it the Vodafone Smart will be available ...
The number of applications and games available at the moment for download for the owners of handsets running under the Windows Phone operating system is ever expanding, with over 30,000 software already up for grabs in the dedicated storefront, the Windows Phone Marketplace. For the time being, the number was not officially confirmed by Microsoft, ...
Ministers have heaped praise on the RAF for the Libyan campaign but are pressing ahead with this week’s redundancy programme. Nearly 1,000 soldiers will also be told tomorrow that they are being sacked. Last night the Ministry of Defence was unable to rule out redundancies among RAF ground crew and technicians supporting the daily flights ...
The administration has confirmed that it knows the whereabouts of Matouk Mohammed Matouk, who was named in Crown Prosecution Service papers as one of two “conspirators” who could be charged in connection with the killing outside the Libyan Embassy in London in 1984. He is the last named suspect believed to still be alive. A ...
The decline in spending on professional services was ‘new and not expected’, the CBI said. Photograph: Getty Britain’s services sector, already suffering from waning consumer confidence, has suffered another jolt following a surprise drop in spending on accountancy, legal and marketing work. The CBI’s quarterly service industry survey showed a sudden reversal in activity in ...
The new air-traffic forecasts do not indicate an urgent need for new runways, as the aviation lobby suggest (London’s main airports to reach bursting point in 2030, 26 August). Just the opposite: they prove how right the government was to veto any new runways at Heathrow, Gatwick or Stansted, and how right it is to ...
Australian wireless carrier Tesltra is reportedly gearing up for the release of at least two new tablet PCs that would run under Google’s Android operating system, one coming from Samsung, and another one from Motorola. Rumor has it that the company would be set to have the yet-unannounced Galaxy Tab 7.7 tablet PC available for ...
