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Grand angle - The Polar Plunge

1. The Chicago Polar Plunge, a “must-attend” winter event in the city of Chicago, returned to North Avenue Beach on ...

London’s resilience is a lesson to policymakers everywhere

1. In 2012 London could claim to be the world’s pre-eminent city. The Olympics had given it a showcase. Despite ...

BT Tower: History of the London landmark as it is sold for £275m

1. London’s iconic BT Tower is to be turned into a luxury hotel following a £275m deal with US hotel ...

Carnet de voyage : Londres

1. Population: 9.65 million people. Nicknames: The Big Smoke, the Square Mile Languages: Over 300 spoken   2.~History Founded as ...

Onboard the renamed London Overground lines causing controversy

1. The ancient Egyptians saw names as magical. It was said that Isis tricked Ra, the sun god, into telling ...

The year of the bucket list lifestyle: why young professionals don’t want to wait for adventure

1. What’s on your bucket list? Whether it’s, say, walking with elephants, seeing the northern lights or trekking through a ...

Sur le vif

1.~Chiffre du mois 100 A team of 21 scientists set off on an expedition in the largely uncharted waters of ...

Louisiana Creole is enjoying a modest revival

1. Jourdan Thibodeaux has had a job every day since his tenth birthday. These days the dreadlocked millennial flips houses, ...

Au cœur de l'Histoire : 1994 South African elections

1. ~Timeline~ 1948: Apartheid, the Afrikaans word for separateness, was launched as a political concept by the white National Party ...

Will Southern California be the ‘Napa Valley of coffee’?

1. It’s a Sunday afternoon at the San Francisco Coffee Festival at Fort Mason, and Jay Ruskey, founder of Frinj ...

Focus - The Coffee industry

1.~Colonial history Coffee was traded throughout the Middle East, Asia, and Europe before being taken to the Americas by European ...

À 360°

1.~Women love sports in South Korea Women in South Korea make up 55 percent of fans of professional sports, including ...

Australia needs to rethink its approach to its Pacific island neighbours

1. From Australia’s perspective the Pacific’s island states have sat for decades in its backyard. Latterly a gate-crasher has stomped ...

Pale, porous and 3D-printed: inside the weird and wonderful quest to make compostable shoes

1. The shoes may not immediately strike you as the future of mainstream fashion. Pale and porous, they resemble a ...

The world hasn't seen cicadas like this since 1803

1. The cicadas are coming — and if you’re in the Midwest or the Southeast, they will be more plentiful ...

On parle d'eux

1.~Ada Limòn The U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón, is launching her signature project this April, which is National Poetry Month. ...

Zoom sur Alex Garland

1.~The Beach Born on May 26, 1970, in London, England, Garland attended the University of Manchester, where he studied art ...

A slime museum is coming to L.A. — and it’s bringing the healing power of play

1. When it comes to healing from grief, there’s often not a simple answer, but there are some recommended standbys. ...

Why star of Amy Winehouse biopic had to train ‘like an athlete’

1. Intense gym sessions, consulting nutritionists and multiple coaches tweaking every aspect of your performance might sound like the life ...

Les échos

1.~Influencer makes dresses from salmon skin Isabella Taylor, who goes by the name Isab, creates dresses out of salmon ...

The Coen Brothers split is working out fine

1. It’s still a mystery why the Coen brothers stopped working together. The pair made 18 movies as a duo, ...

Plume à la loupe : Gillian McAllister

1.~Biography Gillian McAllister was born and raised on the outskirts of Birmingham. She completed a degree in English before training ...

Le dessin

1.~The impact of fast fashion Fast fashion is a business model that focuses on the production of garments in bulk, ...

Recette : lamingtons

1. ~Ingredients~ For 18 lamingtons 125g salted butter, softened, plus extra for the tin 250g golden caster sugar 3 large ...