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A Turkish Airlines plane flying from Istanbul to Singapore made an emergency landing in the Kolkata airport on Thursday after a 69-year-old passenger fell seriously ill mid-air, an official said here. The elderly passenger suffered from bouts of convulsions and was bleeding from the nose and mouth, the official said. Seeing his condition, the pilot of the Turkish Airlines flight TK-054 decided to make an emergency landing at the NSC Bose International Airport in Kolkata. After getting approval from Air Traffic Control,…

18 September7.15pm Listened to Björk’s Medulla on a walk. My friend sent me the song Show Me Forgiveness, and I realised that I had never dived into that record. The album is so interesting – it’s really beautiful, a lot of it is just her voice, these beautiful hymn-like songs.I usually like to go on a walk in the evenings and either listen to music or collect my thoughts. It was sunset so I was open to Medulla for cruising around the neighbourhood, taking it in, winding down at the end of the day.19 September10.30am…

Whether it’s because of the uncertain times in which we live, the dismal nature of our political leaders, or the rise of rightwing populism, we have had a spate of books in recent years on leadership in modern history. From Frank Dikötter’s How to Be a Dictator to Henry Kissinger’s Leadership, the format seems to be to string together chapters on various world leaders who changed the course of history, for good or bad, and reflect on the patterns between them.The latest offering is Ian Kershaw’s Personality and Power, in…

Peter Obi, the Labour Party (LP) presidential flagbearer, said if elected in 2023, his government would overhaul the country’s security architecture and revive trust between the government and the people to set a new economic order. Mr Obi said this at the 2023 Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) Private Sector Economic Forum on the 2023 Presidential Election on Monday in Lagos. According to him, any government that takes over in 2023 will be confronted by daunting challenges; both domestic and…

Economic malaise and the impact of Covid-19 restrictions are causing some young Chinese to postpone plans to get married or have children, running counter to Beijing’s efforts to lift births.Some demographers now see 2022 as the year that China’s population starts to shrink, partly as a result of growing uncertainty among the young about how to earn a living. China’s demographic challenge was already dire. The number of births has declined for the past five years, last year barely outnumbering deaths. Data…

Billy Eichner has revealed that he was kicked off of Tinder again last year, bringing his strike count up to two. During a 2019 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! the openly-gay 43-year-old actor and comedian explained that he had been removed from the dating app after the company thought he was a catfish pretending to be Eichner. After which, the company sent him a care package apology, which included a T-shirt and mugs with “World’s Hottest Single” and “Happy Valentine’s Day... to Me” printed on them. Now, in a new…

The Apple News app. It's an app that comes installed on all iPhones, iPads, and Macs and there's a good chance that you looked at it once and then went back to getting your news from elsewhere. I did, too. But now I'm back. And you should be, too.Before giving the Apple News app another whirl, I got my news from two main sources — Twitter, and RSS feeds. Yes, I'm that old. But there were two main problems, both of which I managed to fix by giving Apple News a try and making it stick. And I'll never go back.The problemI…

Martha and the Vandellas – Heatwave (1963)The intensity of Heatwave never ages, and its message of love as an inescapable blend of agony and ecstasy would be repeated on many of Holland-Dozier-Holland’s greatest recordings. It proved too raw for British ears in 1963, though the Who covered it early on. The Lovin’ Spoonful’s John Sebastian thought it was so good he simply played the backing track at double speed and came up with his own classic, Do You Believe In Magic?The Four Tops – Reach Out I’ll Be There (1966)More…

John Boyega has said he’d be interested in the role of James Bond if the part was offered to him.The Star Wars actor is among the names that have been suggested to take over the role following the 2021 film No Time To Die, in which Daniel Craig’s incarnation of the iconic spy dies. Other actors rumoured to be in consideration are Tom Hardy, Idris Elba, and Jamie Dornan.In a new interview with US magazine Men’s Health, Boyega, 30, confirmed his interest in the role without indicating if he’d been approached about it by…

My household is firmly entrenched in Apple’s cozy orchard, but I keep sneaking back to my Windows PC when nobody is looking. There’s no way I could ever give up Windows. Don’t get me wrong: MacOS is a slick bit of software. It is uniform and easy to navigate. The animations are top-notch. MacOS still has a built-in assistant (I will never forget you, Cortana). But none of that is enough to stop me from going back to Windows every day. Cross-platform compatibility Dung Caovn/Unsplash The Apple ecosystem is amazing. I…