New Orleans reopens after deadly attack

Hello. Bourbon Street in New Orleans has reopened after the New Year's Day attack in which 14 people were killed. My colleagues report from the city's French Quarter and from the Caesars Superdome stadium, which was hosting the postponed Sugar Bowl game. In India, Devina Gupta writes about a co-operative that has empowered thousands of women in its 65-year history. And finally, we review what a 1995 TV show got right about life in 2025.

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Fans flock to Sugar Bowl in New Orleans

Thousands of football fans came to the city to see the University of Notre Dame take on the University of Georgia. Credit: Reuters

Fans from two US universities filled a stadium in New Orleans for a highly anticipated American football game as the city reels from a deadly New Year's Day attack. Bourbon Street, where a Texas man drove a pick-up truck through a crowd of people, reopened to the public shortly before the match. A man who was discharged from hospital on Thursday afternoon after being caught up in the attack headed straight back there. Dressed in the same clothes he was wearing on 1 January, Jovon Miguel Bell lifted his shirt to show cuts and bruises across his torso, which he said were the result of getting trampled. "I'm blessed, to be honest. God is good," he told Bernd Debusmann Jr. "Blessings to the victims and their families."

Who were the victims: While not all the identities have been made public yet, a picture is slowly emerging of a group of mostly young people, many of whom were Louisiana locals.

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The snack empowering Indian women

Besides poppadoms, the women also make spices and detergents. Credit: Getty Images

Seven housewives in Mumbai started a co-operative in 1959, seeing an opportunity to work from home and earn money by using their cooking skills. Initially, they made poppadoms, a popular snack. The co-operative now counts 45,000 members across India, producing various goods.

And finally...

In 1995, the BBC's Tomorrow's World programme decided to predict what the world would look like 30 years later, in 2025. With the help of some experts - and the benefit of three decades of hindsight - technology reporter Graham Fraser reviews what the show got right, and what it missed.