Covering the rape case that changed India
December 16, 2013 -- Updated 0223 GMT
Editor's note: CNN's World's Untold Stories focuses on the final days of the girl whose rape and murder in India one year ago prompted a huge backlash. Sumnima Udas looks at the profound effect it had on a country.
New Delhi, India (CNN) -- When I tell people outside India that I live in New Delhi, I'm almost always asked the now inevitable question: "Do you feel safe there?" or worse, "what's with the rape culture in India?"
The December 16, 2012 gang rape of a student inside a moving bus has sadly become India's defining story of the past year.
The horrific details so ingrained in people's memories, Indian cities are now perceived by many around the world as "rape capitals."
However, for anyone who knows India and lives here, these sweeping generalizations are simplistic and unjustified.
Millions in aid to China criticised as ambitious space programme is announced
But Tory MP Peter Bone called on International Development Secretary Justine Greening to explain why UK money was still going to China.
"The public will be rightly horrified that we are still wasting money on aid to China,' he told the Daily Mail.
Bavarian battle looms on ‘Mein Kampf’
State government withdraws funding for annoated edition of Nazi work
Derek Scally
A battle is looming over Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf after Bavaria abandoned plans to finance a critical edition of the work and instead will challenge publishers of public domain editions when the copyright expires next year.
Last year the Bavarian state government, copyright holder to the Nazi dictator’s works since 1946, contracted Munich’s Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ) to publish two editions of the work: an annotated copy for historians and another for schoolchildren.
The IfZ was given a grant of €500,000 to publish the titles before the end of 2015 when, 70 years after Hitler’s suicide, the copyright would expire.
By lifting a self-imposed seven-decade ban on the work, the Bavarian government hoped to pre-empt a flood of copyright-free editions from 2016, including from far-right groups.
Zanzibar's religious tensions threaten unity, economy
Zanzibar and its palm-fringed beaches appear idyllic, but rising religious tensions marked by brutal killings and acid attacks are threatening the tourist industry upon which the east African archipelago depends.
After years of peaceful religious coexistence on the majority Muslim island, in August two British teenage girls who had been teaching in a school were doused in acid and severely burnt.
Attackers on a motorcycle reportedly threw the acid in their faces, prompting Zanzibari officials -- who described the attack as "a shame on the people of Zanzibar" -- to offer a sizable reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspects.
But little progress has been made, and the girls' frustrated families have complained of a lack of urgency in the case.
The incident was not isolated.
In Chile, women politicians rise, but women's rights lag
Chilean voters today will pick between two politicians in the first presidential election in Latin America where all the candidates are female.
“In Chile, the skirt’s in charge,” blared the headline of Santiago tabloid La Cuarta the day after Michelle Bachelet and Evelyn Matthei advanced to a second round in the country’s presidential race. Voters today will pick between the two life-long politicians in the first presidential election in Latin America where all the candidates are female.
But having such high-profile women in Chilean politics masks a country that is falling behind its peers on women’s issues. Women’s groups hope that whoever wins, four years with a female in charge can change that, even though former President Bachelet’s prior term frustrated her more ambitious supporters.
“Chile remains one of the Latin American countries with the fewest women in Congress,” says Alejandra Sepúlveda, executive director of ComunidadMujer, a Santiago-based group promoting female participation in politics and business. She says women earn 30 percent less than men, a difference driven by women being responsible for the great bulk of caretaking for children and the elderly here.
16 December 2013 Last updated at 00:31 GMT
The bike test that shows what we're really like at work
Cycling through the City of London to work on a dark morning recently, I was overtaken by a man in a black coat with no helmet, no lights, and listening to music through headphones, writes Lucy Kellaway.
Idiot, I thought. As he disappeared into the underground parking of a large bank, I wondered - what sort of banker does a man like that make?
He got me thinking about the things we reveal about ourselves when we are on two wheels, and how useful that data could be to our bosses.
I've always fancied that as a group, cyclists make relatively good employees.
All of us are vaguely fit. We have the wherewithal to be reliable and punctual.
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