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Grand angle

1. ~Net neutrality dismantled~ Last month, the Federal Communications Commission voted to scrap a rule that protected net neutrality in ...

On parle d'eux

1. ~Cyril Ramaphosa~ Cyril Ramaphosa, an anti-apartheid activist turned tycoon and politician, has been chosen by South Africa’s African National ...

New Orleans turns 300

1. Vocable: Can you tell us about your upcoming exhibition, ‘New Orleans, The Founding Era’? John: This exhibition is a ...

Nonstop dancing in Cajun country

1. As 8 a.m. approached on a spring Saturday, a crowd of 70 to 80 patiently waited outside the front ...

Focus

1. Capital: Baton Rouge Largest City: New Orleans Population: 4,7 million Size: 51,885 square miles (135,382 km²) Languages: English (91,3%) ; French, ...

Finland: the country where fathers spend more time with kids than mothers

1. To Americans and Britons, the Nordic countries have come to represent a near-mythical paradise of gender equality and family ...

A 360°

1. ~Jurassic Park in real life~ A team of Anglo-Spanish paleontologists have found a tick that fed from the blood ...

Bitcoin price surge could be ruining the environment

1. Surging bitcoin prices have left many people feeling rich – and many more regretful that they didn't buy into it when ...

The roots of Ireland's housing crisis

1. Dublin has long been a popular destination for foreign tourists, who enjoy its warm pubs, silky beer, Georgian streetscapes ...

Echos

1. ~A ‘James Bond’ song ready to go~ Ed Sheeran has revealed he has already written a Bond theme song. ...

How Dua Lipa became the most streamed woman of 2017

1. She’s officially bigger than Ariana Grande and Rihanna, not to mention Beyoncé and Taylor Swift. The upstart British pop ...

The Museum of Failure

1. The Museum of Failure, a traveling pop-culture show presenting commercial products and services that rank as epic fails — ...

Your neighbors' cars reveal how they vote

1. When it comes to a neighborhood’s political leanings, look no further than the cars or pickups on the street. ...

Less ice, more fire

1. At the end of the last ice age, around 11,700 years ago, Earth’s climate began warming rapidly. As the ...

Le dessin

1. talks. 2. ~Now comes the hard part~ Last month, UK’s prime minister Theresa May and Jean-Claude Juncker, the president ...