AFRICA: Scramble For Africa Hospitality Business Attracts Hilton, Accor, Marriot, Hyatt

Hilton will soon enter the Ugandan market, enhancing the country's growing hospitality industry. The company's representatives on M...

CANADA: WestJet Airlines And Scoop Accused Of Predatory Pricing

The Federal Court of Canada has ordered a second senior employee at WestJet Airlines Ltd. to testify under oath in a predatory pricing inve...

INDIA: Bad Times For Jet Airways, Will They Fly Again?

After stopping operations earlier this month, Jet Airways technically isn’t gone forever. There are still some who want to see the airline g...

USA: Protest At Boeing Meeting By Ethiopians Who Lost Loved Ones

Families of the victims of the Boeing 737 MAX disaster in Ethiopia held a silent protest at the Boeing shareholders meeting in Chicago yeste...

SRI LANKA: The Golden Temple Of Dambulla

Dambulla cave temple also known as the Golden Temple of Dambulla is a World Heritage Site - 1991 in Sri Lanka, situated in the central part...

Karyopharm Announces FDA Extension of Review Period for Selinexor New Drug Application

   Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: KPTI), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company,  announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Adm...

UZBEKISTAN: Explore The Silk Road

From the blue-tiled mosques of Bukhara to the remote semi-autonomous region of Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan offers ancient culture and ample ...

SRI LANKA: Ramesh Raju Honoured For Confronting Church Bomb Attacker

RAMESH RAJU Ramesh Raju has become a hero to the shell-shocked congregation of the Zion evangelical church in Batticaloa after he died sto...

SRI LANKA: Tourist Arrivals In Sri Lanka Drop 50% As A Result Of Easter Bombings, Holiday Cancellations Flooding In

Tourist arrivals in Colombo will fall by 50 per cent over the next two months following the Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 25...

UNITED KINGDOM: WestJet Boeing 787 Dreamliner First London Flight Begins

Although WestJet has flown to London for a few years now, this was the first transatlantic WestJet flight on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner on Apr...

FDA Issues Complete Response Letter for Zynquista (sotagliflozin)

In continuation of my update on  Zynquista ( sotagliflozin )   The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issu ed a Complete Response...

Ryanair Boeing 737 Diverts To Paris After Engine Failure

A Ryanair Boeing 737 has been forced to divert and perform an unplanned landing at Paris-Beauvais Airport. The aircraft apparently experie...

Thousands Stranded As SAS Continues In Its Fifth Day

As the SAS pilots strike continues into a fifth day, the number of passengers affected has increased past the quarter of a million mark. Wit...

INDIA: SpiceJet Overshoots Runway At Shirdi Airport, Taking Two And A Half Hours Yo Rescue Passengers.

Budget airline SpiceJet operating on the Delhi-Shirdi route, overshot the runway while landing at the Shirdi airport on Monday on April 29. ...

(Dis) Solving A Life

Graph from Backyardnature.net    When it comes to an end of life one has to wonder where does it all go.  Of the billions of birds...