23 May 2012 Last updated at 06:08 ET Apple's Jonathan Ive to be knighted Sir Jonathan was made a CBE in 2005 Jonathan Ive - the British designer responsible for Apple's iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad - will be knighted at Buckingham Palace later. Apple's senior vice-president of industrial design has said he is "both humbled and sincerely grateful" for the "absolutely thrilling honour". Sir Jonathan, 45, told the Daily Telegraph he was "the product of a very British design education". He was born in Chingford, east London, and studied at Newcastle Polytechnic. In a rare interview, published in the paper on Wednesday, he said that, "even in high school, I was keenly aware of this remarkable tradition that the UK had of designing and ... Continue reading →
Heavily armed Honduran police in at least two helicopters landed and took off numerous times while agents searched homes and detained several people in the village on the banks of a river deep in Honduras’ Mosquitia region, named for the Miskito Indians. In the end, enraged residents torched the home of the town’s suspected drug trafficker in retaliation for the fatalities on the river.One chopper landed in front of Hilaria Zavala’s home at about 3 a.m. and the six men who got out kicked down her door. She said a “gringo” threw her husband on the ground and put a gun to his head demanding to know about a trafficker named “El Renco.” “They kept him that way for two hours,” said Zavala, who owns ... Continue reading →
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Total agriculture losses, including lost cheese, felled livestock and damaged machinery in an area spanning Bologna, Modena and Mantova in the agriculturally rich Po River Valley, are estimated at €200 million ($254 million). “Considering that what you see here represents the work of seven companies for two years, this means that the repercussions on the rural economy of these farms and this territory will feel it pretty badly,” Caretti said Monday inside the cheese factory, where wooden shelves were still collapsed from the quake. Only one rack of 16 remained standing.Many of the wheels looked unscathed, but workers were still trying to determine what could be salvaged before mold sets in.The quake struck 4:04 a.m. Sunday, when most residents in the quake zone north of ... Continue reading →
