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Mixers and shakers

Drinks blending increasingly exotic ingredients are putting more fizz into evenings out, but what makes the perfect drinking hole?

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Toy sellers bet on Christmas as sales dip

Families normally spend £121 on toys for each child, but the income squeeze is hitting spending.

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Leaving a City job to become a snail farmer in London

Ollie Thompson decided to set up a shop to sell snails after spotting a gap in the market.

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How does India rate the cash ban, one year on?

One year ago, India’s government withdrew most large denomination bank notes. The move disrupted life across India.

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Terror survivor

A survivor of the attack by Anders Breivik wants to tackle extremism by letting young people talk rather than shutting down debates.

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Undercover consumer

How a Turkish company is helping to change market research by turning member of the public into secret shoppers and product testers.

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The firm transforming market research

How Turkish business Twentify is using a mobile phone app to turn members of the public into secret shoppers and product testers.

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Paradise Papers: Prince Charles’s offshore investments revealed

Prince Charles’s private estate secretly invested in an offshore company which lobbied to change climate agreements.

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‘We lost £300,000 through payment scam’

As “push payment” scams come under fire again, a victim tells of her “sheer horror” at being conned.

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Change makers

How people fleeing South Sudan have managed to create work – for themselves and others – in their new home of Uganda.