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Quiz

1.~800 issues of Vocable! ~ Vocable is celebrating its 800th issue! With 23 issues released each year since its creation ...

India’s Election Season

1. NEW DELHI — Only a couple of months ago, Narendra Modi, India’s once unstoppable prime minister, seemed surprisingly vulnerable ...

Focus - The Indian general election

1.~How it works~ India is the world’s largest democracy. About 900 million Indians are expected to go the polls for ...

Rishikesh, India’s new adventure capital

1. I’ve only been in the raft a few minutes, bobbling down a placid stretch of India’s holy Ganges River, ...

The staggering rise of India’s super-rich

1. On 3 May 2018, at around 4.45pm, a short, trim Indian man walked quickly down London’s Old Compton Street, ...

Zoom sur Narendra Modi

1.~1. In numbers~ He is 68. He has been serving as the 14th Prime Minister of India since 2014. He ...

Tattoos, from subculture to pop culture

1. When Nathan Boon started working as a tattoo artist about 10 years ago, tattoo parlours could be found in ...

Sur le vif

1.~Super bloom mania~ In March, hundreds of thousands of tourists visited the Californian town of Lake Elsinore to admire and ...

Trump at the Dinner Table

1. WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump was in a Washington food fracas before he was even elected. He landed in ...

Ryanair, heading for oblivion or European domination?

1. Pity the poor Ryanair shareholder. According to the latest survey by Which?Travel, the Irish budget airline faces an uncertain ...

A 360°

1.~Peeing water down the drain~ An energy technician recently found out that the Belgian statue of Manneken Pis – the ...

Julianne Moore, Sebastián Lelio’s new Gloria

1. NEW YORK — She’s divorced, in her 50s, works a nondescript office job and likes belting out power ballads ...

Les Echos

1.~James Gray opera~ James Gray is to stage his first opera in Paris in November. The American filmmaker will direct ...

Idris Elba’s Turn Up Charlie

1. The new Netflix series Turn Up Charlie gets to the heart of Idris Elba, sitting at the intersection of ...

HIV patients in remission

1. And Then There Were Two. A London man infected with HIV has gone into long-term remission after getting a ...

Le dessin

1. actual; brave; to collude with; handsome 2.~The Mueller report~ Robert Mueller, Special Counsel of the investigation into Russian interference ...