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Hackathon: where art and technology run wild
When a group of creatives and programmers gathered for a 48-hour ‘hackathon’, the idea was to take data and turn it into something magical Hacking comes in three varieties. The first two that came to our collective attention are bad. One is an invasion of privacy practised mainly by middle-aged men on…
Health experts identify Sars-like virus in London
Health experts are trying to identify a new Sars-like virus that is so far known to have infected two people, one of whom is receiving intensive care in a London hospital. A 49-year-old Qatari man was transported by air ambulance from Doha almost two weeks ago. The other person, a 60-year-old man,…
‘Rogue trader’ goes to court in $2.3 fraud trial
A trader accused of losing $2.3 billion in a fraud at Swiss bank UBS goes on trial in London on Monday in a case expected to once again put the supervision of bankers under the spotlight. Ghanaian-born equities trader Kweku Adoboli denies two counts of fraud and two of false…
Olympian exodus begins from London
London’s Heathrow Airport set up a special terminal designed to resemble a city park to cope with the busiest day of the Olympics as around 15,000 athletes, officials and media headed home Monday. Just hours after the closing ceremony the gateway airport for the Games said it was ready to…
London Olympics conclude with mass sing-along
The London 2012 closing ceremony kicked off with a typically British mass singalong Sunday to bring the curtain down on an Olympic Games that have retained the feelgood factor throughout. The show in the Olympic Stadium, entitled “A Symphony of British Music”, is a celebration of Britain’s pop prowess, featuring…
Mass grave reveals how volcano caused global catastrophe
Scientists search for the explosive source of a disaster that wiped out almost a third of Londoners in 1258 When archaeologists discovered thousands of medieval skeletons in a mass burial pit in east London in the 1990s, they assumed they were 14th-century victims of the Black Death or the Great…
German rower Nadja Drygalla leaves Olympics after team discovers her neo-Nazi boyfriend
German rower Nadja Drygalla (fourth from left) is to leave the Olympic village in London, the country’s Olympic committee said on Friday, after press reports that her boyfriend was a member of a far-right group. “Today the management of the German Olympic committee received information about the private associates of…
Cyclist killed in collision with Olympics shuttle bus
LONDON — A man was killed Wednesday when a bicycle was involved in a collision with an Olympics shuttle bus just outside the site of the Games in London, police said. An AFP reporter saw a man’s legs protruding from under the double decker bus on a slip road outside…
Street artists take satirical aim at Olympics
An javelin thrower stands poised to make his throw – but in place of a spear, he holds a missile. The striking image, stenciled in black onto a dirty wall, is one of two new works recently unveiled on the website of British satirical street artist Banksy to coincide with…
London cabbie improvises with ‘hotel-for-one’
With the London Olympics threatening to put a crimp on his business, one local cab driver improved his chances by converting his cab into a mini-motel, The Daily Mail reports. “I’m offering the authentic London experience,” cabbie David Weekes said. “I know this city like the back of my hand…
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