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Grand angle - New spot for the “Fearless Girl”

1. The Fearless Girl Statue has been relocated to stand opposite the New York Stock Exchange. The 1.20m bronze statue ...

On parle d'eux

1. ~Nick Ayers~ 36-year-old Nick Ayers has turned down a job offer from American President Donald Trump. In December, he ...

Broadway’s hidden gems

1. New York — I am three blocks from the Broadway local subway stop, just past West 204th Street. Right ...

Brooklyn, Borough with a view

1. Jake Gyllenhaal is walking into my New York hotel. It's not on Fifth Avenue or one of the trendy ...

Sur le vif

1. ~Way out~ In December, the European Court of Justice ruled that the United Kingdom could unilaterally halt the Brexit ...

Qatar on course for its improbable World Cup

1. It began almost a decade ago as the most unfeasible bid ever to host a World Cup: an outlandish ...

Restoring Birthright Citizenship

1. DUBLIN — Ireland, which seems intent on bucking the illiberal tide in the West, is at it again: As ...

A 360°

1. ~New leader~ After 18 years, Germany’s ruling Christian Democratic Union has a new leader. On 29 October, following catastrophic ...

Meet the man making tomatoes sustainable again

1. When he was 14 years old, Valerio Simonetti, founder of Mr Organic, started working in his father’s tomato factory ...

The first pan-EU political party?

1. Everyone agrees that the European Union is not democratic enough, but they disagree on what to do about it. ...

Writing for TV

1. The borders between television and prose fiction grow ever porous. At the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop — a ...

Les Echos

1. ~Live Sherlock~ In the United Kingdom, Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes are the stars of new immersive games. ...

Origin of chocolate shifts 1,400 miles and 1,500 years

1. The key ingredient of chocolate was being used in South America centuries before it was exploited by civilisations in ...

How the bald eagle soared again

1. An avian stalker follows the course of a shallow river in Wisconsin. The river’s edge is wooded; fish occasionally ...

Le dessin

1. ~The Global Carbon Budget~ A report from The Global Carbon Project, made public last month, found that global carbon ...