AT&T wireless sales increased by 8 percent in Q4 2014
The US telecom giant AT&T announced on Tuesday that wireless sales increased by almost 8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2014. However, it...
Yahoo plans to spin off its $40 billion stake in Alibaba
Yahoo Inc is spinning off its 15 percent stake in the Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Yahoo has been pressured by its...
Five Earth-size planets discovered orbiting 11.2 billion year-old star
Scientists who were sifting through four years’ worth of data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft discovered an 11.2-billion-year-old star with at least five Earth-size planets...
Auschwitz Nazi death camp liberated 70 years ago today
On January 27th, 1945, the former Nazi death camp, Auschwitz, located in southern Poland, was liberated by the Soviet army. Approximately 1.1 million people...
UK economy grew by 2.6% in 2014, greatest expansion since 2007
UK Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 2.6% in 2014, the greatest rate of expansion since 2007, and considerably higher than the 1.7% posted...
US blizzard storm development witnessed by satellite
Meteorologists at the National Weather Service have been monitoring a low pressure area that moved from the USA’s Midwest into the Atlantic Ocean and...
How do you unboil an egg? You untangle the proteins and let them refold
American and Australian scientists have worked out how to unboil an egg, specifically the egg white. You pull apart tangled proteins and allow them...
Nearly quarter of a million construction jobs to be created by 2020, UK
Nearly one-quarter of a million (224,000) construction jobs are expected to be created across the UK over the next five years, says a new...
Tesco closing its e-book selling service Blinkbox Books
Tesco is giving up on its e-book selling service Blinkbox Books.
The retailer did not manage to secure a deal with Waterstones for the sale...
Asteroid that flew close to Earth has its own moon
The asteroid that zipped past Earth on January 26th has its own small moon, according to radar images taken from NASA’s 230-foot-wide Deep Space...