Shares in the British Banks Standard Chartered have fallen sharply after financial regulators in New York, accused it of hiding more than 250 billion dollars in an illegal transaction with Iran. Standard Chartered denies the allegations. Shares in the bank dropped by more than 16% in London on Tuesday.
A province in Afghanistan is experiencing the second day of strikes on Tuesday as people continue their protest about growing insecurity, especially a recent surging kidnappings. Many shops and business in Huran remain closed.
The accomplished American’s composer Marvin Hamlisch has died. He was 68. He won many awards in his long career, including 3 Oscars and Pulitzer Prize as Wincent Dowd reports.
Marvin Hamlisch came from the middle class New York Jewish background, which has produced so many of the great Broadway song writers. After chorus line, he went on to a degree of success with shows such as They Are Playing Our Song and the Goodbye Girl. That theatre works sometimes
overshadowed
his films. He won 2 Oscars for The Way We Were in 1973 and the 3rd for adapting Scott Joplin's ragtime music for the Sting. In 1977, he co-wrote Nobody Does It Better for the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.
A tribute has been paid to the British pioneer radio astronomy Bernard Lovell who's died at age of 98. He was the founder of the Jodrell Bank radio telescope observatory. He is also pivotal in the development of radar system during the Second World War. But in later life Sir Bernard deplored the