• Reuters

    Analysis-China, struggling to make use of a boom in energy storage, calls for even more

    Rows of what look like thin, white shipping containers are lined up on a barren dirt field in China's Shandong province. Filled with batteries, they form a 795 megawatt (MW) plant that can hold up to 1 million kilowatt-hours of electricity - enough to power 150,000 households for a day, making it China's largest such storage facility when it was connected to the grid last Saturday. Built by Lijin County Jinhui New Energy Co, the project is part of an explosion in development of energy storage in China, which has called for even more investment in the sector to boost renewable electricity and ease grid bottlenecks.

  • Associated Press

    A bench and a grandmother's ear: Zimbabwe’s novel mental health therapy spreads overseas

    After her son, the family’s shining light and only breadwinner, was arrested last year, Tambudzai Tembo went into meltdown. In Zimbabwe, where clinical mental health services are scarce, her chances of getting professional help were next to zero. A wooden bench and an empathetic grandmother saved her.

  • The Telegraph

    What the first 100 days will look like

    Sir Keir Starmer is now Britain’s next Prime Minister after Labour won a landslide victory.