Topline: Selfridges, the British luxury department store, has launched its Christmas range at its flagship Oxford Street store a record 149 days early, in a bid to cash in on souvenir-hunting visitors and replicate previous commercial success of the early festive launch. The store has released 600 product lines, with the full, 3,500-line range coming on September 2 under a ... Read More »
Kumar, 27, and Veta Birari, 28, are both software developers, who live in their own house, in Pune. They get a combined monthly salary of Rs 1.36 lakh, of which they are left with a surplus of Rs 57,930. In order to achieve their goals, they will need to put this amount to work instead of letting it idle in ... Read More »
HYDERABAD: A new health study across city schools revealed disturbing trends on various health disorders among schoolchildren in Hyderabad with 1 in 5 kids vulnerable to lifestyle and metabolic diseases in adulthood. At least 20% of 18,000 children surveyed are at risk. Assessment was based on their waist-height ratio, which was in excess of the standard 0.5% in a survey by Address Health, which provides ... Read More »
In our stressful lives we have few opportunities to feel truly irresponsible AFP/Getty Images People who begin Christmas celebrations early are happier according to scientists. Apparently, those of us who wheel out the Christmas tree as soon as the bonfire embers diminish are much happier and excited about life. Psychoanalyst, Steve McKeown, told Unilad: “Although there could be a number of symptomatic reasons why ... Read More »
Samsung is already working on the Oreo update for its smartphones but won’t release it before early 2018. The information comes from a Turkish Samsung representative. Sadly the source doesn’t give out specifics about which phones will receive the Android 8.0 Oreo update first but it’s a good guess that the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ along with the Galaxy Note8 will get the honor. We ... Read More »
Education Analytics, a Madison-based nonprofit focused on education research, has been awarded a $7.73 million grant from the U.S. Dept. of Education to expand an early literacy program in partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs in in Wisconsin, Alabama and South Carolina. The SPARK Early Literacy program is a research-based, kindergarten-through-second-grade early reading intervention developed by the Milwaukee-based Boys & Girls Clubs ... Read More »
Some shoppers have been searching early for Christmas bargains, department stores reportedJACK TAYLOR/GETTY IMAGES Things could be looking up for Britain’s retailers as the UK high street recorded its best September sales performance in five years. Figures from BDO show that overall like-for-like sales were up 2.9 per cent, reflecting the best monthly growth since April 2014. BDO said that ... Read More »
Selfridges is launching its festive shop early for the benefit of shoppers who ‘love to Christmas shop very early in the year’. Photograph: Selfridges It might be 147 days before Christmas but on the fourth floor of Selfridges on London’s Oxford Street there are six fake fir trees decked out with fairy lights and £50-a-pop corgi and union flag baubles. A Father ... Read More »
A group of Lillington veterans is beginning their efforts to make Christmas brighter for local children early this year with a Christmas in July event Saturday to help increase their toy inventory. The Ernest Simmons Veterans of Foreign Wars Post in Lillington will begin toy collections at a special event at their Lililngton headquarters. The toys, collected in conjunction with ... Read More »
Steven Gerrard says he is yet to make up his mind whether to retire or continue playing, and opened the door for a Premier League return. The former Liverpool and England captain’s contract with LA Galaxy expires in November and there have been no formal talks over an extension to life in California. Speaking to Liverpool-based radio station Radio City Talk, Gerrard, ... Read More »
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