Natalie Bellin Bransholme, Hull BBC Kirsty Armstrong visited the shop on its opening day Families living on a council estate say a new “social supermarket” will help them make ends meet. The shop at North Bransholme Community Centre sells surplus food, with packs of fruit, vegetables and bread costing as little as 20p a time….
Taya says her life was looking up as Myanmar crept out from decades of isolation. She had a job in marketing, enough money to shop in Yangon’s new retail plazas and fuel her quiet dreams of opening a small bakery, as her generation enjoyed unprecedented economic and personal freedoms. But that was before Myanmar’s short-lived…
CCTV footage from Japan’s Hiratsuka City Museum captured the moment a meteor soared through the night sky over Japan’s Mount Fuji on Friday. While most meteors appear white, some can glow green, yellow, red, or blue, depending on the elements in the material as it burns up in Earth’s atmosphere.
Adam Goldsmithand Tiffany Wertheimer Reuters A multi-storey building in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, was one of several damaged overnight Polish fighter jets have been scrambled on its border with Ukraine, after the Ukrainian capital Kyiv was hit by Russian missiles and drones overnight. Poland’s military said its air force took a “preventative” response to secure its…
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that a US military strike targeting Islamic State militants in Nigeria was originally supposed to take place on Wednesday but he ordered it delayed by a day. “They were going to do it earlier,” Trump told Politico in an interview. “And I said, ‘nope, let’s give a Christmas…
The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office on Tuesday said five people had been arrested, including a former Samsung executive who allegedly recruited key personnel and leaked the company’s proprietary technology to CXMT, according to a report by Yonhap News Agency. They face charges for violating the country’s Unfair Competition Prevention Act and the Industrial Technology…
As 2025 draws to a close amid heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing over new arms sales to Taiwan, analysts warn that the worsening atmosphere could weigh on the substance – if not the scheduling – of US President Donald Trump’s visit to China next year to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Washington’s announcement…
Two men arrested over a 1 billion yen (US$6.4 million) robbery in Hong Kong were remanded in custody after appearing at Fanling Court on Friday. Lee Wan-kwong, 36, and Lee Chun-wa, 28, were each charged with conspiracy to commit robbery alongside seven others accused of robbing two men of 1.08 billion yen on December 18…
Big Brother contestant Mickey Lee died on Thursday, Dec. 25, after she was hospitalized earlier in the week following “a series of cardiac arrests.” She was 35. Lee’s family announced her death in an Instagram post shared on Friday, Dec. 26. “With profound sadness, the family of Mickey Lee announces her transition on Christmas in…
In the ongoing quest to understand South Africa’s political and economic stagnation, it may be helpful to look at other postcolonial states that have traveled farther along the path of independence. This may help clarify the stagnation question that citizens, politicians and economists are grappling with. Much of the analysis of postcolonial Africa and Asia…
