The unsightly images were compiled on Instagram account cookingforbae They range from pies and casseroles to pancakes that look like pork chops But the vast majority of dishes are utterly unidentifiable With Thanksgiving just around the corner, time is fast approaching for Americans countrywide to show their gratitude for the food on their plates. But then again there may be one or two who’ll be more grateful going hungry on […]

Why should I be scared of the government when electric current doesn’t scare me? asks Loha Singh, who purloins electricity and provides illegal connections for a living in Katiyabaaz (Powerless), a riveting new documentary on power theft in India. Singh, an irascible young man with a gift for invective, is the pivot around whom the film rotates. He snaps off and mangles wires to the main public supply cables for […]

Site compares BlackBerry to Facebook, Microsoft, Apple and Samsung Earnings per second are based on each firm’s official quarterly revenue As each second passes on the site, the amount increases in real-time Samsung tops the list, Apple is in second, while BlackBerry earns the least In the five seconds it has taken you to read this sentence, Samsung has earned a staggering $32,430. This converts to £20,200 and is what […]

Police in Canada say 348 people have been arrested and nearly 400 children rescued during a three-year investigation into child pornography. At the centre of the inquiry was a Toronto-based firm that allegedly sold DVDs and streamed videos of naked children. Azov Films marketed the footage as “naturist” and claimed it was legal in Canada and the US. The films were distributed in 94 countries, police said. In Canada 108 […]

How did an unassuming Varanasi farmer and school dropout come to be sought after by farmers, praised by experts and awarded by the government for his famous seeds? I’m in Varanasi, looking for the house of JP Singh. Spirituality soaks everyone and everything in Varanasi, also called Benares and Kashi – the holiest of seven holy cities in Hinduism. Key to the founding of both Buddhism and Sikhism, home to […]

East State Penitentiary, Pennsylvania Photographers Daniel Barter and Daniel Marbaix’s pictures of deserted buildings in the north-eastern states of the US show once-grand edifices slipping into terminal decline. The pair’s eerie portraits of emptiness have been collected in a book, States of Decay, published by Carpetbombing Culture in the UK this month. Theatre, Connecticut The structures pictured include abandoned power plants, hospitals, asylums, schools, theatres, steel mills, prisons, factories and […]

Fascinating documentary goes behind the scenes of thriving scrap trade Sydenham Scrap Metal yard in south London turns over £7million a year Boss Michael, 31, says: ‘I’ve no exams but I run a multi-million business’ Self-employed ‘scrappers’ collect waste from the streets and sell it to him Scrappers with lorries earn £800 a day; others with pony and trap just £12 Getting Rich In The Recession: Scrappers will be on […]

American Airlines and US Airways have settled an anti-trust suit with US regulators, paving the way for their proposed merger to be finalised. The merger would create the world’s largest airline. As part of the agreement, which must still be approved by a judge, the airlines will give up slots at several US airports. The two companies argued the consolidation was necessary to their survival. The US Justice Department had […]

STORY HIGHLIGHTS European bison have been successfully reintroduced to Poland Animal was declared extinct in the country in the 1920s Around 1,200 animals are closely monitored by conservation groups Controlling population is now an issue with hunting a controversial proposal As a group of tourists was passing through the villages of Lesna and Zabrody in the north east of Poland last month, they caught glimpse of something that immediately sent […]

She was attacked at a rural police station, and her landmark case awakened India decades ago. But did she manage to love, have children, find happiness? New headlines about rape in my homeland set me on a journey to find her. She was 14, maybe 16, when they raped her. It was 1972, and I was 9. The India of her youth was the India of mine — except she […]