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Grand angle - Midtown desertion

1. Street performers who wear character costumes and pose for photos with tourists in exchange for tips, stand around waiting ...

On parle d'eux

1.~ Chelsea Manning The former US army analyst who leaked hundreds of thousands of documents and diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks ...

The Comedic Master of the Sneak Attack

1. Phoebe Waller-Bridge, a writer and star of strange and beguiling comedic works, is tucked into a red leather booth ...

Zoom sur - Phoebe Waller-Bridge

1.~ Origins She was born in West London on Bastille Day in 1985, and descends from aristocracy. Her father is ...

Six things James Bond could learn from Fleabag

1. Phoebe Waller-Bridge has been hired to do a pass on the new James Bond script, which puts us in ...

The aim of this game is kindness to strangers

1. It’s easy to forget just how significant an accomplishment the internet, with its power of connecting us, really is. ...

Free train travel for women fleeing domestic abuse

1. Women fleeing domestic abuse will be able to apply for free train tickets under a new scheme to help ...

Reassuring a child who is anxious about the planet

1. What’s going to happen? Is everyone going to die? Questions that come up a bit in our house, from ...

Sur le vif

1.~ LE CHIFFRE: 64 At 64 years old, Sara Brewer has become the oldest woman to row across the Atlantic ...

À 360

1.~ Giraffe tragedy Two of Kenya's three rare all-white giraffes have been killed. Wildlife officials announced that a female and ...

Five foods a US trade deal could bring to the UK

1. Nothing symbolises British fears of a standard-slashing US trade deal better than chlorinated chickens: those zombie birds, barely able ...

Focus

1.~COVID-19 : From social distancing to bringing people together~   2. ~Finding a cure~ About 35 companies and academic institutions are ...

Les échos

1.~ Corona culture While festivals, concerts, exhibitions, movie releases and sporting events are overwhelmingly being cancelled or postponed because of ...

Did ‘The Simpsons’ really predict the coronavirus outbreak? Twitter thinks so

1. First Donald Trump’s presidency, then the Disney-Fox merger and now the coronavirus outbreak? It appears the prophetic writers of ...

Irish women win Pritzker prize, architecture's highest honour

1. If you peer behind the construction hoardings on a side street near Aldwych, you will see one of London’s ...

An Australian legend may be the world's oldest datable story

1. ORAL MYTHOLOGY has tremendous staying power. The Klamath, a group of Native Americans who live in Oregon, tell tales ...

Mystery of lifespan gap between sexes may be solved

1. From humans to black-tailed prairie dogs, female mammals often outlive males – but for birds, the reverse is true. ...

Le dessin

1.~ Bball matters   The novel coronavirus outbreak has led to the cancellation of an important number of activities and ...