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Grand angle - Burns night

1.~Burns Night~ These women are part of a lantern procession that took place in Dumfries, Scotland, to commemorate Burns Night ...

On parle d'eux

1.~Bernie Sanders~ Democratic Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is facing allegations of sexism and pay discrimination that allegedly occurred during his ...

2018 was the year Europe stood up to Trump

1. One of 2018’s most memorable political photographs came to us courtesy of the G7 Leaders Summit in Canada. The ...

China’s Way to Global Power

1. Under a merciless sun, a dozen Chinese construction workers survey an empty expanse of desert, preparing to transform it ...

Sur le vif

1.~Design mistake~ Last month, British postal service, Royal Mail, had to apologise to customers for a mistake on a stamp ...

How Brexit could change the face of rural Britain

1. 2018 was a testing year for Britain’s 150,000 or so farmers. A summer heatwave scorched the broccoli and cauliflower ...

The Supreme Court’s Class Photos

1. Justice Brett Kavanaugh stood in the back row, on the far right, beaming. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, recovering from ...

A 360°

1.~New home~ The Central European University will relocate from Budapest to Vienna in September 2019. Founded by the Hungarian-American philanthropist ...

Billboards: a booming ad medium

1. Pedestrians strolling down 8th Avenue in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighbourhood will be struck by the cast-limestone façade of the ...

Clint Eastwood on drug drama The Mule

1. One positive about being Clint Eastwood, Oscar-winning director: Make a movie about men in the twilight of their lives ...

I predict a Riley

1. ‘Playing guitar in front of 10,000 people is something I stopped being nervous about a long time ago,” says ...

Les Echos

1.~Brexit page-turners~ In the United Kingdom, books tackling Brexit are proving extremely popular. Recent bestsellers include How to be Right ...

Gut bacteria may offer a treatment for autism

1. Autism affects people’s social behaviour and communication, and may impair their ability to learn things. All this is well ...

Why is the octopus smart as heck?

1. To demonstrate how smart an octopus can be, Piero Amodio points to a YouTube video. It shows an octopus ...

Le dessin

1.~New Congress~ At the beginning of the month, Democrats regained control of the House of Representatives eight years after losing ...