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Why people put aluminium foil balls in their washing machine and whether you should |

Scroll through enough laundry hack content online, and you’ll eventually come across someone tossing a crumpled ball of aluminium foil straight into their washing machine, claiming it’s the secret to softer, static-free clothes without a single dryer sheet in sight. It’s an offshoot of a genuinely older, more established trick involving the dryer, but the…

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West African cyber-crime networks: Mass arrests follow Interpol crackdown

Operation Jackal IV – which took place between November 2025 and June 2026 – investigated how the groups laundered money and how financial fraud cyber crimes, such as cryptocurrency and email compromise fraud, were conducted. Scams often targeted “retirees in English-speaking countries”, Interpol said. “By following illicit financial flows across borders, we are attacking the…

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“Our house was sealed, we worked for Rs 100 a day”: How a small-town girl from Nagpur turned hardship into a dream now watched by millions

There is a moment in Apexa Rajput’s story that stops you completely. The bank officials came and sealed the door of her family’s home in their small village in Maharashtra, a padlock on the place where a family should have been living. The debt had grown too large for two agricultural labourers earning just Rs…

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Is the economy K-shaped or C-shaped? Finance pros weigh in

The K-shaped economy has become shorthand for a widening, persistent economic divide: higher-income Americans pulling further ahead — in wealth, spending, and financial security — while many lower-income households struggle to keep up. Now, that shape may be shifting. “I got sick of hearing about this K-shaped economy,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC’s “Squawk…

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