Flickr/East-West Center Gulab Watumull’s (left) father Jhamandas began the family business with one store in Honolulu in 1915 In 1915, 29-year-old Indian entrepreneur Jhamandas Watumull arrived in Hawaii’s Honolulu island to set up a retail shop of his import business with his partner Dharamdas. The two registered Watumull & Dharamdas as a business on Honolulu’s…
Getty Images Hideko Hakamata, 91, fought half her life to free her brother – the world’s longest serving death row inmate When a court declared Iwao Hakamata innocent in September, the world’s longest-serving death row inmate seemed unable to comprehend, much less savour the moment. “I told him he was acquitted, and he was silent,”…
A woman has died and a man is seriously injured after a single-vehicle crash on the A9 in Inverness. The smash happened at about 01:40 on the southbound carriageway near Inshes. Emergency services attended and the woman was pronounced dead at the scene. The 35-year-old man was taken to hospital for treatment. Police Scotland said…
This week, Yang Tengbo was identified as the 50-year-old Chinese businessman and alleged spy banned from the UK. It has triggered questions on an issue multiple UK governments have grappled with – the UK’s relationship with China. As the UK’s chancellor prepares to visit China in the new year, the BBC’s Analysis Editor Ros Atkins,…
Clubs in Leagues One and Two will be restricted in the amount of money put into the club from owners that can be spent on player wages and transfer fees from the 2025-26 season. Under new rules sides will only be able to spend a proportion of any investment over £500,000. Owners in League One…
By MIRIAM KUEPPER Published: 12:49 GMT, 20 December 2024 | Updated: 18:55 GMT, 20 December 2024 This is the shocking moment a Boeing 737 passenger jet overshot the runway and stopped just 15 yards from the sea. Footage shows flight DY430 approaching the runway in Molde on the northern shore of the Romsdal Peninsula in…
Getty Images Tourist attraction Brighton i360 closed with immediate effect on Friday The Brighton i360 has closed with immediate effect after the viewing tower was dogged with a series of financial problems in recent years. The tourist attraction’s 109 staff were made redundant in a meeting on Friday morning with Brighton i360 Ltd administrators. Brighton…
The Supreme Court has refused an application by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Daera) for permission to appeal a ruling on the gas storage caverns project in County Antrim. Daera had gone directly to the UK’s highest court after their request to appeal to it was rejected by the Northern Ireland Court…
WARNING: Graphic Content By SABRINA PENTY Published: 16:15 GMT, 20 December 2024 | Updated: 17:33 GMT, 20 December 2024 A Belgian couple who used their four daughters as sex slaves to fulfill their sexual fantasies have been sentenced to more than a decade in prison. The mother and father – who are unnamed for legal…
Jagmeet Singh, leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP), says he will introduce a motion to topple Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government in the new year. In a letter posted on X on Friday, he said his party “will vote to bring this government down”. It marks a turn for the NDP leader, whose centre-left…
