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LIFE-CHANGING washing machines invented by a British student are on their way to Kurdish Iraq to help displaced families living in water-scarce refugee camps.
Fifty of the low-cost devices, which use half the water needed for normal electric machines and run three cycles in just 15 minutes, will arrive in the Middle East this week.
Engineering student Nav Sawhney hopes his invention, called a Divya, will save water and improve the day-to-day lives of women and girls who are often burdened with washing clothes by hand.
With more people dying each year and many spending their final days in institutions, researchers argue that wider access to palliative care could offer a more humane and cost-effective alternative, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
Keir Starmer’s £120 million to Sudan cannot cover the government’s complicity in the RSF genocide or atone for the long shadow of British colonialism and imperialism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE