Jemma Melvin, who learnt to bake on her nan’s knee, beat 5000 other contestants to create the official pudding of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee. She calls her lemon Swiss roll and amaretti trifle "a tribute to three amazing women: my gran, my nan and the queen herself."
BENGALURU (Reuters) -Indian shares closed lower for a third straight session on Wednesday, pressured by sharp losses in IT stocks, while a risk-off sentiment prevailed on fears of a global economic downturn. The NSE Nifty 50 index fell 0.62% to 16,025.80 at close, and the S&P BSE Sensex was down 0.56% at 53,749.26. "Domestic equities are still in a directionless trend because of very high global volatility but mostly this is a sell-on-rise market," said Prashanth Tapse, vice-president of research at Mehta Equities.
State-run Coal India will open this year what is expected to become one of the country's biggest coal mines, officials said, as India struggles to keep pace with surging power demand. Output from the new Siarmal mine in eastern Odisha state would rise gradually, reaching capacity of 50 million tonnes in about five to seven years, Vinayak Jamwal, spokesman for Coal India unit Mahanadi Coalfields (MCL), told Reuters. Coal India's record production has been brightspot in efforts to end India's worst power crisis in more than six years, as a heatwave has driven up demand for power and forced the government to reverse a policy on cutting coal imports.
President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday fast-tracked citizenship for residents of two regions of Ukraine, prompting protests from Kyiv that the move violated its sovereignty.
The Russian Minister of Defence Sergei Shoigu suggests that Moscow will have to fight for a long time in Ukraine to achieve the objectives of its intervention, which has entered its fourth month.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock says that China "must explain itself" after a media consortium published leaked documents which appear to show thousands of photographs from inside a system of mass incarceration, including many people from the Uyghur minority. "These images are horrific and disturbing and they confirm... that the most serious human rights violations are taking place in Xinjiang", Baerbock says.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that the West remains divided over the extent of its support for Ukraine in its defence against Russia's invasion. Addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, he singles out the European Union for its lack of unity.
Dennis Christensen, a Danish Jehovah's Witness, was released from Russian jail on Tuesday and will have to leave the country, the US-based Christian evangelical movement said.
The city's mayor Demba Diop said the fire was caused by 'a short circuit and spread very quickly'
On a drizzly Tuesday night in Hong Kong, hundreds of Catholics packed into church for a mass turned into an act of resolve by its host -- the retired cardinal Joseph Zen, fresh from a day in court.
The price of shares in Brazil's state oil giant Petrobras fell Tuesday in reaction to President Jair Bolsonaro firing its boss after only 40 days on the job.
Airbnb will continue to assist outbound Chinese tourists eyeing properties and lodging abroad
Sue Gray, a senior civil servant and former pub landlady, published her full report into the parties
Some 130 here have received the first dose of protein-based Nuvaxovid and about 550 have received it as a booster jab.
Forced to flee fighting, Lyudmyla was assured the authorities would rehouse her in a town in western Ukraine. But when she arrived, they took one look at her and turned her away.
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong promises the new Australian government is committed to action on climate change as she arrives in Fiji after her centre-left government was sworn in. Wong admits that "Australia has neglected its responsibility" on climate change under past governments.
French daredevil tightrope walker Nathan Paulin claim a new world record after completing a 2,200-metre-long (nearly 1.4-mile) trip to Mont Saint-Michel on a wire suspended between a crane and the famous abbey on the tidal island. It took him two hours to inch his way, barefoot, along the two-centimetre-wide slackline. +COMPLETES 32AZ9Z2_EN+ AND SOUNDBITES
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he is convinced that Russia "will not win" its war in Ukraine, nor will President Vladimir Putin be allowed to impose a "dictated peace" on its pro-Western neighbour.
Nathan Paulin on his record-breaking walk to the Mont Saint-Michel
Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi and his delegation leave their hotel in the Solomon Islands ahead of meetings with the Honiara government. It comes as China puts forward a wide-ranging draft agreement and a five-year plan to ten nations in the Pacific, as part of Wang's tour of Pacific nations, which began Thursday. The South Pacific is increasingly a theatre for competition between China and the United States -- which has been the primary power in the region for the last century. IMAGES
