Wealthy buyers often combine units to create a large home. Actor Johnny Depp took another tack when he bought five adjacent penthouses in downtown Los Angeles: He kept them largely separate, living in them “like rooms in a home,” according to real-estate agent Kevin Dees of Partners Trust. Now Mr. ... Read More »
LGBT heroes in the UK from Oscar Wilde to Benjamin Britten, the grave of Amelia Edwards and even Anne Lister, a woman considered the “first modern lesbian,” are being relisted on historic tours of England after being hidden or neglecting their LGBT identities. According to The Guardian the new listed ... Read More »
The homes of Oscar Wilde, Benjamin Britten and Anne Lister, a woman considered the “first modern lesbian”, are being relisted as part of a gay history project undertaken by Historic England. The heritage organisation has also announced that the grave of Amelia Edwards, a Victorian novelist and Egyptologist, is to ... Read More »
Kuwait Projects Co (KIPCO), the Gulf state’s largest investment company, said on Sunday construction had begun on its $2.0-$2.5bn real estate project in Kuwait, which has been downsized by around half from its original estimated cost. The mixed-use project, which had previously been valued at $5bn, was scaled down after ... Read More »
Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? 1 – Yahoo YHOO -3.06% confirms that 500 million accounts were hacked back in 2014. From Forbes: Bob Lord, chief information security officer at Yahoo, has stated that the ... Read More »
Kuwait Projects Co (KIPCO), the Gulf state’s largest investment company, said on Sunday construction had begun on its $2 billion to $2.5 billion real estate project in Kuwait. Banks will provide financing for half of the project, with KIPCO funding the remainder directly, said Tawfiq al-Jarrah, executive director of Hessah ... Read More »
More than 20 European business associations and companies interviewed by Reuters say they back their governments’ position that Britain’s banking sector can only enjoy EU market access post-Brexit if the country still follows the bloc’s rules. Britain wants a trade deal that gives London’s financial district, known as the City, ... Read More »
HUBBALLI: After bringing the Real Estate Regulation Act (RERA) to protect interest of consumers, the Union government is mulling reforms in procedures for giving approvals to building construction and layout development, Union Minister for Urban Development M Venkaiah Naidu said on Saturday. Inaugurating a two-day convention of Karnataka chapter of ... Read More »
India positioned themselves for a massive win in their 500th cricket Test by polishing off the New Zealand top-order after setting them a colossal 434-run target, propelled by unbeaten half-centuries from Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja here today. New Zealand were tottering at 93 for four in their second innings ... Read More »
WHEN HILLARY CLINTON seemed to collapse while getting helped into the back of a black van earlier this month, Jane Orient, a physician in Tucson, Arizona, says it felt like a vindication. In early August, she’d published an op-ed on the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons’ website questioning whether ... Read More »
Singapore has claimed top spot, together with Iceland and Sweden, in a health and living standards report published this week in the Lancet medical journal, according to Bloomberg. The latest report, perhaps the most comprehensive ever, also reveals the broad shortcomings of sustainable development efforts around the world. According to health goals ... Read More »
KARACHI: Pakistan has been ranked 149th among 188 countries in the first global assessment of countries’ progress towards the United Nations’ health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Titled the Global Burden of Disease Study, the analysis was launched at a special event at the UN General Assembly in New York and ... Read More »
