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Les échos

1. ~‘Hello, Brother’ ~   Egyptian filmmaker, Moez Masoud, announced at this year’s Cannes Film Festival that he will direct ...

Grand angle - #StopTheBans demonstrations

1. In this photograph taken on May 21, 2019, a group of women dressed as characters from The Handmaid’s Tale ...

On parle d'eux

1. ~Robert F. Smith~ Billionaire tech investment executive, Robert F. Smith, decided to pay off the student loans of all ...

Facebook takes on hate

1. It’s hard to quarrel with Facebook’s decision to permanently ban some of the high-profile prolific and incendiary users on ...

Europe is reining in tech giants

1. LONDON — In Spain, activists were convicted for social media posts that violated an expanded anti-terrorism law. The Twitter ...

Sur le vif

1. ~New rating ~ The College Board, the body that administers the university admissions exam in the United States, has ...

Which is the world’s most musical city?

1. The event was advertised as a “pedal steel all-dayer” – something you would usually be unlikely to see outside ...

Struggling with style

1. Summer’s arrival in the northern hemisphere brings with it a dilemma that plagues every office worker. What does a ...

A 360°

1. ~Austria’s ‘Ibiza scandal’ ~ The Austrian government has been in political turmoil since May, when a video published by ...

Politicians and foreign languages

1. It seems hard to imagine, but once a British prime minister could not only aim to put Britain “at ...

Extinction Rebellion, the next Occupy movement?

1. In front of a bright pink sailing boat emblazoned with the words “tell the truth”, an elderly man in ...

Tolkien: into the mind behind The Lord of the Rings

1. What would J.R.R. Tolkien have made of Tolkien, the touching, polished, impeccably well-behaved new movie about his early life? ...

Zoom sur Nicholas Hoult

1. ~1. Background~ He was born in Wokingham, Berkshire, to a piano teacher and a pilot. His middle name, Caradoc, ...

The Britain Van Gogh loved

1. Vincent van Gogh was the most European of artists. His brief, intense life, before he killed himself aged 37, ...

The Britons who built Stonehenge

1. The ancestors of the Britons who built Stonehenge were farmers who had travelled from an area near modern Turkey, ...

How to avoid wasp stings

1. It’s a common misconception that wasps are more aggressive than bees. In fact, they appear so, simply because their ...

Le dessin

1. ~health~     2. ~Game of Thrones finale ~   On Sunday 19 May, the final episode of the ...