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How a home-made snack brand empowered thousands of women in India

Getty Images The co-operative has more than 45,000 women members On a chilly December morning, a group of women wrapped in colourful saris, warm shawls and woollen caps huddled outside a three-storey building in a busy neighbourhood in Delhi. Within the walls of the building ran a unit of one of India’s oldest social enterprises, […]

Kemi Badenoch calls for national inquiry into ‘rape gangs’

PA Media Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has called for a full national public inquiry into the UK’s “rape gangs scandal”. It comes after Home Office minister Jess Phillips rejected Oldham Council’s request for a government-led inquiry into historical child sexual exploitation – saying the council should lead it instead. Her decision, taken in October, was […]

The tech turning thoughts into speech

Cognixion As the potential for surgically installed brain implants hots up, could a new type of non-invasive wearable technology, which turns thoughts into speech, be a more simple way to support people with communication challenges? Gus Alexiou finds out. Chris Benedict, 41, DJs at clubs and events across Santa Barbara, USA, under the name DJ […]

The mega trade deal that has French farmers in uproar

Lisa Louis French farmer Alix Heurtault worries that the trade deal could make it difficult for her to continue As the ink was drying on one of the world’s biggest trade deals, signed in Uruguay this month, and hailed as a milestone for the global economy, anger was brewing thousands of miles away in France. […]

The invention that inspired a New York tradition

Ramin Talaie/Getty Images The ball drop was originally created to help ships navigate the globe (Credit: Ramin Talaie/Getty Images) A British Royal Navy officer named Robert Wauchope is credited with creating the time ball, an ingenious Victorian-era contraption that inspired New York’s New Year’s Eve ball drop. When the final hours of the year arrive, […]

Thousands more Somerset households to have soft plastics recycled

BBC A trial in Frome saw 27 tonnes of soft plastics collected in its first year About 25,000 more households are now able to recycle plastic bags and wrapping through kerbside collections. It comes after Somerset Council expanded a small trial involving 3,500 homes in Frome, which started in May 2023. The scheme has now […]