Category: Women Doing Amazing Things
Abercrombie sales surge as 1990s revival spreads
It is not just styles from the 1990s that are making a comeback. One of the decade’s biggest brands is too. Abercrombie & Fitch appears…
Ethiopian Airlines crash and Brexit talks deadlock
Boeing facing questions Jonathan Druion A day after an Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed leaving 157 people dead, stories are emerging about some of the lives…
Assange speaks about forthcoming extradition hearing
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has made a brief court appearance in London and been told to return next month. The 39-year-old Australian is wanted in…
Folk anthem’s lost verse to be revealed
Getty Images Seeger said she and MacColl performed the song together “for decades” A long-lost verse of one of folk music’s most famous songs is…
Facebook says it helped people flee, including staff
Government of Mexico A group of Afghan citizens arriving at the Mexico City International Airport Facebook has told the BBC that it took part in…
What can we do to get more women into coding?
BBC How hard could it be to learn to code in Python? I decided to find out. The UK is facing an acute shortage of…
The only town in the US built for Chinese people
Alamy Locke’s street signs are written in both English and Chinese (Credit: Alamy) Chinese labourers transformed central California from a swamp to an agricultural powerhouse…
Qatar flexing muscle in changing world
In one of Doha’s most distinctive districts, Souk Waqif, about 20 women were selling delicious homemade food one recent evening – stews, curries, spicy crepes…
Mountain Bike World Championships: Britain’s Evie Richards wins women’s cross-country gold
Great Britain’s Evie Richards won gold in the women’s cross-country at the Mountain Bike World Championships. She finished in one hour, 23 minutes and 52…
The Tortoise and the Share
I had the privilege of delivering this year’s Bob Friend Lecture at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Bob was part of the original Sky…