Culture

A German union is making the case for a 28-hour shortened work week in a bid to secure an improved work-life balance for it’s members.

From shopping malls to gas stations, over-sized, pink, female-only parking spaces are springing up in China. The initiative has stirred controversy amid claims that woman-only parking spaces enforce a stereotype of bad female drivers.

After increasing pressure Bilbao health officials have halted a scheme which distributed cocaine crushing cards to local drug users.

Penelope Gazin and Kate Dwyer are founders of online art marketplace Witchsy. To stop startup sexism the pair invented a male co-founder, Keith Mann.

The Annabelle doll has been spooking commuters across Asia with mixed results. Malaysian operator RapidKL were the latest to spot the malevolent marionette.

VietJet bikinis are in the news again. Scantily clad flight attendants from the budget Vietnamese carrier will have to cover-up on a new route to Jakarta.

Dutch prisoners are being given the chance to help with unsolved crimes as police issue a cold case calendar featuring unsolved murders or disappearances.

We have all been to IKEA and probably at some point pondered the funny sounding, elvish-like names of their furniture. However, their interesting and sometimes … Read more

The Netherlands is suffering from a problem many countries dream of – they don’t have enough prisoners to fill up their prisons. Since 2005 The … Read more

From airplane seats to public transport, the space we’re given to sit down in is getting ever smaller. Throw manspreading into the mix and you’d … Read more