4 d. ago Shoppers get Ninja Thirsti water bottle for less than £5 in Debenhams deal stack

The Ninja Thirsti is a premium water bottle that's designed to keep hot drinks hot and cold drinks cold - and it's also capable of keeping carbonated drinks fizzy

Economics

4 d. ago How distant relatives, DNA markers and a water bottle helped sentence a cold case killer to 22 years in prison

Eugene Gligor pleaded guilty to the 2001 killing of Leslie Preer, his ex-girlfriend’s mother, after he was arrested last year

Events

9 d. ago 'I was brought back to my senses by cold water pouring into the train'

Manchester's worst rail tragedy saw a train crash 70ft off a bridge into a river, drowning passengers trapped in its carriages

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3 w. ago This £10 fan comes with a water tank to blast you with a cooling mist of air

This handheld cooler uses ice-cold water to blast out a refreshing breeze wherever you are.

Economics

3 w. ago Great Eastern Hotel by Ruchir Joshi review – a panoramic view of India in flux

The political and emotional journey of a young communist revolutionary is brought sensuously to life, in a magnificent epic that took 25 years to writeThe observation by architect Louis Kahn that you “can only really see a building once the building becomes a ruin” runs through this book like the Hooghly river through India’s former capital. There’s no better Indian ruin than Kolkata, a city that still clings to the centrality of its role in the 19th-century intellectual renaissance that buttressed the case for Indian self-rule. The adage back then was that “what Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow”.Great Eastern Hotel, the second novel from the author of The Last Jet-Engine Laugh, is 920 pages and well over 300,000 words long. The staff of your local Waterstones will kindly describe it as “an undertaking”. It is set in and around the still-standing, now eye-wateringly expensive Great Eastern Hotel, which is, as the book points out, a model for the city itself: a place t...

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3 w. ago Missing Michele Ann Joy Bourda 'often swims in cold water and goes on hours

Michele Ann Joy Bourda disappeared after swimming at Ofrynio beach in Kavala in Greece at around noon on Friday - and now authorities are concerned for the tourist

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3 w. ago British woman who vanished from Greek beach while her husband slept in the sun 'was used to swimming in cold water and going on hours

A British woman who vanished from her sunlounger on a beach in Greece while her husband was asleep was 'used to swimming in cold water', and would often spend a whole day rambling

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