India tells social media firms to remove ‘India variant’ from content
Coronavirus: How Covid-19 crushed India’s healthcare systems India’s government has instructed social media companies to remove any content that refers to the “Indian variant” of Covid-19. The IT ministry said the World Health Organization (WHO) listed the variant as B.1.617 and any reference to “Indian” was false. Geographical terms have been used to describe a […]
Italy’s beloved ‘fried pizza’
Marialba.italia/Getty Images Although Neapolitan pizza is most often associated with Naples, fried pizza is the city’s beloved street food (Credit: Marialba.italia/Getty Images) “Pizza fritta”, the lesser-known cousin of Neapolitan pizza, emerged as a result of poverty amid World War Two and was known as “the pizza of the people”. The first time I met 82-year-old […]
New drama tells story of bus rape investigation
Netflix Shefali Shah plays Vartika Chaturvedi, the woman in charge of the investigation Almost everyone in India remembers the Delhi bus rape – known as the Nirbhaya case. The horrific events of December 2012, when a young student was gang raped and assaulted as she travelled home from an evening at the cinema, were so […]
Syria’s new ruler is politically astute
Watch: BBC speaks to Syrian rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa When I left London almost two weeks ago after the rebel coalition captured Aleppo – a stunning victory dwarfed by what followed – I thought I would be reporting a shooting war. The group known as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, was sweeping all before it, […]
the country that loves to overachieve
peeterv/Getty Images Nigeria is home to more than 370 tribes and 500 languages (Credit: peeterv/Getty Images) Africa’s most-populated country is a cultural powerhouse. But’s what’s behind the nation’s drive to succeed? In a lifetime of feverishly competitive Scrabble-playing, I have only been defeated by six earthly beings. Growing up, my mother’s nickname for me was […]
Premier 15s: Leaders Saracens back to winning ways
Leaders Saracens responded impressively to last week’s defeat at Wasps with an emphatic 53-7 victory over Bristol Bears Women in the Premier 15s. May Campbell, Emma Uren, Sophie de Goede, Poppy Cleall and Rocky Clark all crossed before half-time as Sarries built a 34-7 advantage at the break. Campbell completed her hat-trick midway through the […]
Google faces mass legal action in UK over data snooping
Alamy Google faces its first mass legal action in the UK over the iPhone-related claims Google is being taken to court, accused of collecting the personal data of millions of users, in the first mass legal action of its kind in the UK. It focuses on allegations that Google unlawfully harvested information from 5.4 million […]
Wakefield Council considers reduced hours for libraries and museums
Wakefield Council Wakefield Council are proposing changes to the opening hours of libraries, museums and castles as part of plans to deliver a sustainable budget. Reducing the opening hours of libraries and museums is being considered by a council to cut costs. Wakefield Council said the change would mean venues opening slightly later or earlier […]
Court unites couple seeking divorce over naming baby
It is not unusual for couples to argue over naming their baby, but it rarely ends up in court. But a couple from India’s southern state of Karnataka found themselves needing the courts to intervene following a three year fight over their son’s name. In fact, the fight had got so nasty the couple were […]
How kimchi rekindled a decades-long feud
Elena Maltenieks/Alamy Kimchi and pao cai aside, the world is filled with hundreds of imaginative pickled vegetable varieties that most people have never heard of (Credit: Elena Maltenieks/Alamy) By claiming South Korea’s national dish as its own, China may have angered the internet, but at least now the world has heard about “pao cai”. When […]