Need some technical support when it comes to losing weight? Here's my review of the latest apps and wearable technology for the BBC World Service's World Business Report. 

Fitness App Review : World Business Report, BBC World Service [28th March 2014]

I speak with Orsola de Castro founder/co-curator of Estethica at London Fashion Week, an initiative that promotes sustainable fashion on the catwalk and the high street. She tells me about why it is important to know more about the clothes we wear. 

Sustainable Fashion: Where are your clothes from?

Report for World Business Report and Business Matters on the London black cab protest in response to the the taxi app, Uber. 

Taxi protest against Uber stops London traffic

The eastern European nation of Lithuania became the 19th country to join the European single currency - the euro on January 1st 2015. Many Lithuanians see this as part of their country's ever closer integration into Europe, more than twenty years after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. It's also a landmark along the road of recovery from a severe downturn in 2009, when the economy shrank by an incredible 15 percent. Lithuania is now one of the fastest growing members of the EU. But not all is rosy. Its economy is still intertwined with its former ruler, Russia. International sanctions on Moscow are having an effect, and some worry joining the troubled euro may not be a great idea. The BBC's Vishala Sri-Pathma reports from the capital Vilnius.

Lithuania joins the Euro

The crisis over Ukraine has led to tit for tat sanctions between Russia and the European Union. The tiny Baltic nation of Lithuania finds itself in an awkward position. It's formerly a part of the Soviet Union - and its biggest trading partner is Russia. But the government in Vilnius is a vocal supporter of the sanctions against Moscow - and that are hurting many Lithuanian businesses. So is economic pain worth it to stand up to an increasingly assertive Russia? The BBC's Vishala Sri-Pathma reports from the Lithuanian countryside.

Vishala Sri-Pathma

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