Last week saw Samsung and Oculus VR finally launch the consumer version of their anticipated mobile-based virtual reality (VR) head-mounted display (HMD), the Gear VR, in the US. Since its release VR fans around the world have been searching for information on launches in other territories. While the kit is yet to arrive in the likes of Europe, it has appeared on a number of Samsung’s own websites for specific countries such as Germany and the Netherlands. Now the kit it has shown up on several Read more [...]

Legendary Cosmopolitan editrix-in-chief Helen Gurley Brown told Vanity Fair in 2007 that her four-story apartment, which extends up into one of the three towers of the Beresford building on New York City’s Central Park West was “the best apartment in New York City.” And this month, more than three years after her death, the magnificently eccentric penthouse popped up for sale at $20 million. The gutsy, Chanel-clad sexual-politics pioneer and her late husband, four-time Oscar-nominated producer Read more [...]

The food standards agency has revealed which of the largest high street chains have the highest proportion of top-score hygiene ratings. The UK Government body, which is responsible for the five star rating scheme, has released which big names have the highest level of food hygiene to celebrate five years of the scheme. The ratings are determined by local authority food safety officers and run from zero to five - with a five rating meaning very good food hygiene standards. Here we list the 20 Read more [...]

Mumbai : Rahul Mukerjea, ex-lover of Sheena Bora, arrives for questioning by the CBI in connection with the Sheena Bora murder case in Mumbai on Friday. (Source: PTI) The “relationship” between Peter Mukerjea’s son Rahul and Indrani’s daughter Sheena Bora has been listed by a Mumbai court as one of the motives behind Sheena’s killing. “On the basis of record and prosecution’s case two motives can be gathered..one is of relationship between step brother (Rahul) Read more [...]

Shropshire Council planners have given the go-ahead to plans to convert rooms at a four-storey townhouse in the middle of one of Ludlow’s busiest streets.The upper storeys of 4 to 5 King Street, above Costa Coffee, have been empty for years despite the interest of various developers up to 2009, when plans to bring the rooms back into use stalled.But now it looks as though that might change as SEP Properties Ltd has been given permission to create six flats in the Grade II listed Read more [...]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Colts left tackle Anthony Castonzo has sprained the MCL in his right knee and is listed as week to week.Coach Chuck Pagano confirmed the diagnosis during his regular Monday news conference.Losing Castonzo would be another big blow to an offense that is already without Andrew Luck, who is expected to miss most of the rest of the regular season with a lacerated kidney and partially torn abdominal muscle.The offensive line has struggled to protect Read more [...]

CEO of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE), Yossi Beinart, said: "We are delighted that our efforts to bring companies into TASE are fruitful. We acted quickly to correct distortions for the benefit of the entire market while not closing the door to foreign companies looking to be traded on TASE." In its meeting last Thursday (November 19, 2015), TASE's board decided the definition of "a foreign company with an Israeli Orientation" for the purpose of addition to indices and the weight cap Read more [...]

Morello Royale denies Polly in Kempton Listed affair Monday 23 November 2015 Morello Royale gained some valuable black type after springing a surprise in Kempton's OLBG Mares' Hurdle.Despite having question marks over her ability to see out the extended three-mile trip, the 6-1 shot stayed on best of them all to floor 1-2 favourite Polly Peachum and take the Listed prize.Fairytale Theatre was gifted an early lead Read more [...]

A POLICE station could soon be in the hands of the community after Leigh Town Council requested to have it listed as a community asset. Leigh Police Station, in Elm Road, is owned by Southend Borough Council and closed to the public in 2012. It is still used as a work base for officers but Essex Police are expected to cease working from there in April next year, with its future use then uncertain. The town’s council has submitted a preliminary application to have Read more [...]

A POLICE station could soon be in the hands of the community after Leigh Town Council requested to have it listed as a community asset. Leigh Police Station, in Elm Road, is owned by Southend Borough Council and closed to the public in 2012. It is still used as a work base for officers but Essex Police are expected to cease working from there in April next year, with its future use then uncertain. The town’s council has submitted a preliminary application to have Read more [...]