Everything But The Girl are back and plan on releasing a new album for the first time in over 20 years. The British electronic pop duo have shared that they will release a new album in spring 2023, their first since their last album ‘Temperamental’, re…
Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche tells men it’s good to talk but better to listen to women
When the internationally renowned Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie usually speaks the world sits up and pays attention. Or at least if it doesn’t it probably should. Especially the people and practices she chooses to target for criticism. Whisp…
Make Glasses Cool Again: UK schoolgirl campaigns for more bespectacled emoji options
British schoolgirl Lowri Moore is just 13 but has achieved a lot in her short life. In 2019, at just nine years old, she persuaded Disney to create a bespectacled heroine for the first time, in the hit film Encanto (2021). She is now setting her sights…
Watch: Ukrainians make ’trench candles’ for soldiers at the front
Ukrainians of all ages and walks of life have come together to create “trench candles” for soldiers on the front line. The process is fairly simple. Cardboard sheets are cut up into lines, then twisted and fitted inside tin cans, the cans are then fill…
Crowds in Seoul watch news break of North Korean missile launches
People gathered around televisions in Seoul on Wednesday as news broke that North Korea had fired more than 10 missiles, including one that landed close to South Korea’s waters — in what President Yoon Suk-yeol said was “effectively a territorial inva…
Scholz heads to Beijing amid pressure to take tougher line on China
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz travels to Beijing this week in what is fast becoming a controversial trip, amid pressure both domestically and from within the EU to take a tougher line against China. Scholz is the first Western leader to visit the Asian…
Uber whistleblower Mark MacGann: ‘We were weaponising drivers’
A former executive at Uber has detailed how the company was “weaponising drivers” in its various fights against government regulation around the world, calling their practices “undemocratic and unfair” and “if not illegal, certainly unorthodox”. Mark M…
Greece: Shoppers not convinced over government scheme to cut prices of essential goods
As Greece grapples with sky-high inflation, the government has introduced a new scheme aimed at easing the burden of soaring prices felt by consumers. The so-called ‘household basket’ plan, which came into force on Wednesday, compels all major retail c…
Poles light up cemeteries for All Saint’s Day
Thousands of Poles visited cemeteries to remember their deceased relatives and friends on All Saints’ Day, a national holiday in Poland. Visiting cemeteries on 1 November is one of the Polish nation’s deeply-rooted traditions. Poles decorate the graves…
Growing majority of Britons think Brexit was a mistake, new poll shows
The tide in Britain appears to have turned since the 2016 Brexit referendum. According to a new poll, only 43% of the British population consider that the UK’s departure from the European Union was a good decision, while 57% believe it was a mistake. T…