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Grand angle - The many facets of James Cameron

1. “I only have five good ideas; I just keep reusing them in different ways”. This is what American director ...

Why is Narendra Modi’s party favoured to win another election?

1. India is currently holding the biggest election ever conducted, running through early June. Almost 950 million registered voters will ...

Focus

1.~India Area: 3.287 million km² Capital: New Delhi Location: Bordered by Pakistan to the northwest, China and Nepal to the ...

Indian food is great. Perhaps too great

1. In 1999 Chittaranjan Yajnik, an Indian doctor and researcher, was photographed with his friend and collaborator, John Yudkin, a ...

Caste in India: How prevalent is casteism in modern-day society?

1. ~What is caste in India?~ The history of the caste system is still hotly debated, but scholars generally agree ...

On parle d'eux

1.~Kevin Costner Kevin Costner is on his way to the Cannes Film Festival. The American actor’s highly anticipated western, Horizon: ...

The facts behind fentanyl’s lethal rise among Americans

1. Fentanyl has become a leading cause of death in the United States, an issue on the presidential campaign trail ...

Facial recognition: coming soon to an airport near you

1. On a recent Thursday morning in Queens, travelers streamed through the exterior doors of La Guardia Airport’s Terminal C. ...

Sur le vif

1.~St Helena urged to return remains to Africa A British overseas territory is being urged to return the remains of ...

Au cœur de l'Histoire : 30 years of the Channel Tunnel

1. ·         1802: French mining engineer Albert Mathieu-Favier proposes a tunnel under the English Channel. ·         19th Century: Various proposals and ...

Who is in charge of Europe?

1. Football is a game where “twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans ...

Zoom sur Simon Harris

1.~A vocation Simon Harris was identified as a natural politician, even as a teenager growing up in Greystones, a coastal ...

À 360°

1.~Swiss women score a landmark climate win Europe’s highest human rights court has ruled that its member nations must protect ...

Marks & Spencer’s archive is a window on 20th-century Britain

1. Consider the corpse. Or to be more precise: consider its pants. When the body was finally pulled from the North ...

Bats are in trouble. That's not good for anyone who likes mezcal, rice or avocado

1. If you’ve ever enjoyed coffee, tomatoes, corn, bananas, mangoes, walnuts, chocolate, tequila or mezcal, you may just owe bats ...

Everything can be meat

1. Recently, a photo of rice left me confused. The rice itself looked tasty enough—fluffy, well formed—but its oddly fleshy ...

Les échos

1.~Goodbye Tropicana Las Vegas Tropicana Las Vegas, one of the city’s longest-standing Strip casinos, has shut its doors for good, ...

How romance bookstores took over America

1. When Jonlyn Scrogham decided to open a romance novel bookstore last year in Louisville, Kentucky, the 37-year-old had modest expectations. ...

Plume à la loupe : Truman Capote

1.~Early life Truman Streckfus Persons was born in 1924 in New Orleans. His parents, Lillie Mae (“Nina”) Faulk and ...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind at 20: an unflinching meditation on love and memory

1. When a heart breaks, we vacillate between hope and fear, anger and denial and a thousand fragmentary moments of ...

A 20-year-old transcriber is turning sheet music into hot content

1. For some budding musicians (and even old pros), the very sight of sheet music can elicit a fight-or-flight response, ...

Carnet de voyage : Toronto

1. Population : 2.93 million Area : 630.2 km² Province: Ontario   2. ~The Six~ Toronto is often referred to by the nickname ...

Le dessin

1.~Department of Justice VS Apple The US government filed a sprawling antitrust case against Apple, alleging the tech giant has ...

La recette en V.O. : Philly Cheesesteak

1.~Ingredients   Yield:4 servings ·       2 pounds very thinly sliced rib-eye steak ·       3 tablespoons neutral oil, such as vegetable, ...