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Narendra Modi鈥檚 BJP party won four out of five Indian states in recent elections, with polls reporting that more women than men voted for them. Geeta Panday of 麻豆社 News Delhi explains BJP鈥檚 appeal to women, from Prime Minister Modi鈥檚 strongman image, to the party's development schemes to improve women鈥檚 lives.

Space Kebab
A kebab shop owner in Adana, known in Turkey as the capital of kebabs, attempted to deliver the world's first kebab into outer space. 脰zge Ozdemir from 麻豆社 Turkish tells us more about the not entirely serious space mission.

Rio Alligators
From bus stations to door mats, alligators have been seen in Rio de Janeiro's most urban areas. Disorganised urban expansion, pollution and human feeding appear to have caused the population boom. Brazilian Ricardo Senra grew up in Rio, and made a video about Rio's wild inhabitants.

Shanghai's Covid lockdown
Shanghai has been in lockdown for a month. What began as a 5 day intervention is still in place as omicron defies the measures, and government鈥檚 zero-Covid policy shows no sign of changing. 麻豆社 Chinese journalist Benny Lu has been finding out what life is like under arguably the world鈥檚 strictest lockdown.

Omani dishdashas
How would you feel if your government made laws about what you could wear? That鈥檚 what鈥檚 happened in the Gulf state of Oman, with laws relating to the traditional robe the dishdasha and how it can and can鈥檛 be worn, as 麻豆社 Arabic's Nisrine Hatoum reports.

(Photo: Indian Prime Minister Modi visits Allahabad, India in 2021. Credit: Ritesh Shukla/Getty Images)