Two white rose institutions make the media news. But don't expect drastic changes or too much excitement. That's not what they are aboutThat venerable chronicle of Paradise on Earth, the Dalesman, has appointed a new editor, only the sixth since it was founded in 1939.The Guardian pips it, with five editors in that time, but we have a fellow-feeling as north... Read more
The Chocolate Festival | Cabaret Duchamp | The Contemporary Body | Out & aboutThe Chocolate Festival, BrightonOnly the most hedonistic of organisers would throw an all-out homage to chocolate smack-ba... Read more
New York, May 7 (IANS) Cricket, the favourite sport of South Asians, has finally found a home in the land of baseball in the Bronx, one of the five boroughs of New York City.
The new cricket complex... Read more
London, Dec 27 (IANS) A whopping majority of cash-strapped Britons -- 83 percent -- will shun expensive nights-out and celebrate New Year's Eve at home, a study has found.
Of those staying at home a... Read more
Bridgetown (Barbados), March 28 (IANS/CMC) Jamaican businessman Dave Cameron has been elected president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), beating incumbent Julian Hunte in a close vote at the ... Read more
You've already voted for your favorite Insert Coin: New Challengers finalist, right? What? You haven't yet? What are you waiting for? Seriously. The voting's nearly closed! We've already whittled the ... Read more
Statutory controls would aid dictators abroad and send an 'appalling message', William Hague to be told by world bodyStatutory controls on the British press would send an "appalling message" abroad an... Read more
One of the most rewarding aspects of TechCrunch's Disrupt events is the Startup Battlefield -- like a mini-startup school, the dozens of chosen startups that go through the Battlefield training proces... Read more