As the meeting point between the cultures and climates of the East and West, Turkey has a lot to offer on the gastronomic front. Search for typical Turkish cuisine and you might find meze, kebab, kofta, coffee and raki served up as common examples, but the reality is that finding...
A national celebration of Ed Balls has broken out on Twitter to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the politician's first tweet. On this day five years ago Balls famously started a Twitter account by simply posting his own name, which was subsequently re-tweeted almost 70,000 times. Ed Balls — Ed...
Denmark could introduce a tax on red meet after a government think tank concluded that it is "necessary to include food" if the country is to live up to the Paris Agreement. Cattle contributes to a tenth of global emissions but is widely ignored in climate talks. A cow releases between 70...
The average worker is paid £678 a year to slag off their boss, according to new research. According to a poll of 2,000 office workers Brits spend more than six working days a year moaning about management, with six in ten admitting to regularly laying in to them during lunchbreaks,...
The winners of the Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year 2016 have been announced. A joyful shot of a baker having fun with flour while making bread by British photographer Mark Benham has seized this year’s crown. Benham was presented with a £5,000 prize in front of an audience of 400 guests...
Venezuela's Vice-President Aristobulo Isturiz has announced that the country's two million state employees will only work Mondays and Tuesdays until the energy crisis that has crippled the country is over. The announcement follows news that the country is to put the clocks forward by half an hour to reduce demand for electricity...
A two-year inquest into the Hillsborough disaster has 'totally vindicated' families of those killed in the incident, ruling that the 96 people were unlawfully killed. In what has been described by Labour MP Andy Burnham as the "greatest miscarriage of justice of our times", justice for supporters and families who suffered...
Scientists have unveiled a formula for why socks go missing. The so-called 'sock loss index' has been created by Psychologist Dr Simon Moore and leading statistician Dr Geoff Ellis and takes a variety of sock-related factors into account to calculate the probability of socks going missing. For the mathematicians out there,...
In my formative years I spent a lot of time exploring the exotic night-life of the North, and one thing that never ceased to amaze me was the courageousness of the local lady folk. Mini skirts in Newcastle in freezing cold weather, high heels on the cobbled paths of Leeds' Corn...