I’m travelling on India’s premium train today from Kolkata to New Jalpaiguri and the journey starts with a little buttonhole being presented to us. You don’t get that on Avanti. It’s left bang on time too.

Incomes for poorer households are now projected to fall, after rising between 2018 and 2022. This would leave their income essentially unchanged (only 1 per cent higher) over the 25 years from 2004 to 2029. Learn more ⤵️ https://buff.ly/3X0FYrP

UK was the birthplace of the industrial revolution and the first major nation to use coal power over 140 years ago. It is now the first major nation to quit it This is the culmination of civil society pushing and action going back to 2006. Well done to all involved www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

Britain becomes first G7 nation to end coal power with last plant closure

Britain's last remaining coal power plant, Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, will stop electricity generation on Monday after 57 years of operation. The closure aligns with the government's coal…

Who is Ilya Gambachidze? You may not know his name unless you're a keen watcher of sanctioned Russians. This one is a really nasty piece of work... /

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...#interracial#marriage#SouthAfrica until June 1985. Hours after the ban was lifted, Suzanne Le Clerc and Protas Madlala became the first interracial couple to wed under the new rules.

Witness History - South Africa’s first inter-racial marriage - BBC Sounds

For almost 40 years, marriage between people from different ethnic backgrounds was banned

Things not on my 2024 bingo card: Switzerland 🇨🇭 and Italy 🇮🇹 have redrawn a border that traverses an Alpine peak as melting glaciers shift the historically defined frontier.

Melting glaciers force Switzerland and Italy to redraw part of Alpine border

Two countries agree to modifications beneath Matterhorn peak, one of Europe’s highest summits

You had me right up to the fake grass

Well worth listening to this BBC Podcast episode even if you have seen the excerpts of Prof FONG’s evidence I posted previously. There is more in this episode. And the least we can do is bear witness as fully as possible The very least we can do. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The Covid Inquiry Podcast - 32. 'Like A Terrorist Attack Every Day' - BBC Sounds

Jim Reed reports from another week of evidence at the Covid Inquiry.

Incredible! Spanish mother and daughter train bacteria to restore church frescoes. #BlueskyScience

Spanish mother and daughter train bacteria to restore church frescoes

As Spanish microbiologist Pilar Bosch was casting around for a subject to investigate for her PhD in 2008, she stumbled across a paper suggesting that bacteria, her field, could be used in art restoration, her mother's own area of expertise.

“From footage that has emerged, it's clear that some smaller towns and some neighborhoods within larger population centers were essentially wiped off the map--with many/most structures in these areas completely destroyed and even washed away.”