Gisèle Pelicot removes all trace of husband in France mass rape trial
AFP Gisèle Pelicot no longer owns any family photos with her husband Warning: This story contains descriptions of sexual abuse It was November 2011, and Gisèle Pelicot was sleeping too much. She spent most of her weekends in a slumber. She was annoyed, because during the week she worked hard as a supply chain manager, […]
How will air pollution change where and when we travel?
Getty Images New Delhi recently saw air pollution levels at 30-35 times the safe limit (Credit: Getty Images) As New Delhi makes headlines yet again for its choking smog, experts and holidaymakers alike are pondering how worsening air quality will change travel in the long-term. My first words during a Christmas trip to Hanoi last […]
Record crowd attends season opener
John Fairhall/BBC Cambridge United’s goal scorer, Francesca Partridge, signing an autograph after the game Cambridge United and Norwich City kicked off their women’s football season with an East Anglian derby on Sunday. On the back of England’s Euro 2022 success last month, a record crowd was in attendance. How much of an impact has the […]
Five things about DFDS as Jersey chooses its new ferry operator
BBC The Seven Sisters, operated by DFDS Seaways, carried out berthing trials in the islands in October 1) What is DFDS? Danish firm DFDS has been chosen to run ferry services to and from Jersey for the next 15 years. The firm had also tendered to run ferry services in Guernsey but the island instead […]
Chris Wormald to become new civil service head
Sir Chris Wormald will become the new head of the civil service and Cabinet Secretary later this month. The career civil servant, who has headed the Department for Health and Social Care since 2016, will be the most senior official adviser to the prime minister and Cabinet. He was leading the health department during the […]
RFU chief John Steele vows to stay despite criticism
His decision to remove England’s senior team from the performance director’s remit was seen as an attempt to block the possible return of 2003 World Cup-winning coach Sir Clive Woodward. Despite the RFU board, led by chairman Martyn Thomas, intervening to restore the original job specification, Woodward ruled himself out of the running for the […]
Seven quiet breakthroughs for climate and nature in 2024 you might have missed
Alamy Global temperatures rose and extreme weather ramped up, but there were also some significant breakthroughs for the climate this year. Here are seven quiet wins that may have gone under your radar in 2024. But this year also saw some extraordinary breakthroughs for climate and nature. In case you missed them, we have rounded […]
Germany’s new female rabbi sign of growing Jewish community
Alina Treiger today will have all the rights of a male rabbi. Regina Jonas, in contrast, was restricted in her ceremonial duties, confined largely to teaching religion. The reason for the great gap between 1935 and today’s ordination is the Holocaust. Liberal Judaism, which recognised the right of women to be rabbis, started in Germany […]
Gang jailed for trafficking vulnerable people from Latvia
Derbyshire Police Top left to right: Ainars Pelcis and Ilgvars Pelcis. Bottom left to right: Magdalena Kleina, Madara Stromane and Karens Pelcis Members of a gang who forced vulnerable people to sleep on a kitchen floor or share a sofa at night, while taking most of their wages, have been jailed. Over five years, 28 […]
Conservationists turn to AI in battle to save red squirrels
Genysys Engine Whiskers help the AI identify what is – and isn’t – a red squirrel An artificial intelligence (AI) tool which has been trained to tell the difference between grey and red squirrels could be “an absolute game changer”, conservationists say. The system, called Squirrel Agent, has been trained on thousands of images of […]