From skirt lengths to sandwich sales, quirky indicators like the Lipstick Effect and Men’s Underwear Index often predict recessions before official data, revealing how everyday habits mirror economic ...

A Pakistani-origin man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for leading a Rochdale grooming gang that raped two 13-year-old schoolgirls between 2001 and 2006. Six other Pakistani-origin men ...

2008 - A 15-year-old girl reports to police she has been raped repeatedly by a gang of men, and gives details of the abuse taking place above a takeaway in Rochdale. Police arrest two members of a ...

An market stallholder who groomed and raped two schoolgirls has been jailed for 35 years. Mohammed Zahid, also known as Boss Man, handed both teenagers free underwear from his lingerie stall at ...

Mohammed Zahid, 65, known as ‘Boss Man’, gave the girls gifts in return for the expectation of regular sex with him and his friends.

13:01, Wed, Oct 1, 2025 Updated: 13:40, Wed, Oct 1, 2025 A seven-strong Asian grooming gang who raped and abused two teenage “sex slaves” have been jailed for a total of 174 years. The depraved ...

Mohammed Zahid was one of seven Asian men convicted in June of committing various sexual offences against the girls between 2001 and 2006. A market stallholder who groomed and raped two white ...

Women's issues are, unfortunately, often given more attention when men speak up about them. But what if a transgender man could help bridge the gap between societal expectations and a topic that is ...

Men's underwear is the ultimate "invisible" purchase. Unlike shoes or a nice jacket, nobody is going to see it, and there isn't even the social pressure to buy often anyway. Because of this, underwear ...

Police named a dead man Friday as a new suspect in the 1991 unsolved killings of four teenage girls at an Austin yogurt shop, saying DNA evidence led to a “significant breakthrough” in the brutal ...

If you ask an economist, they will almost certainly tell you that a recession is indicated by things such as mounting unemployment, falling industrial production, and short-term interest rates rising ...

Though there are more reliable ways to track an economic downturn, some have also seen "recession indicators" in fashion trends, cardboard boxes, and "little treats." ...