More than 1,000 international architectural experts have urged President Emmanuel Macron to drop his “unrealistic” insistence on rebuilding Notre-Dame within five years after a huge fire destroyed its roof and spire. Some 1,170 leading academics and architects from France, Britain, […]
Japanese police on Monday arrested a 56-year-old man in connection with two paring knives found at the school desk of Prince Hisahito, grandson of Emperor Akihito, local media reported. The incident comes as authorities were beefing up security ahead of the […]
Poland’s artists and opposition politicians are posting photos of themselves eating bananas in protest after the country’s authorities called an artwork featuring the fruit obscene and removed it from a top national gallery. The 1973 video “Consumer Art,” by prominent […]
In the village of Rampur in central Bangladesh children are playing in the communal pond – a common sight in a country where the majority of the population lives close to the water. But while water is a way of life […]
According to Vox, Spain’s new hard-Right force, today’s general elections are about the survival of Spain as a national entity. Most European observers, however, will be looking to see how strongly Spain’s forces of moderation can survive the first real […]
The former US diplomat who negotiated the release of Otto Warmbier from North Korea in 2017 has said the administration of President Donald Trump should honour the promise it made to pay $2 million for his freedom. In an interview […]
Japan’s Emperor Akihito today abdicated after 30 years at the helm of the Chrysanthemum Throne, paving the way for his son to take over and heralding a new era. On a historic day for Japan, Emperor Akihito, 85, completed the […]
After more than 20 students in one Indian state committed suicide due to failed university admission exams, an independent panel has found that the marking software used was faulty and had graded pupils incorrectly. Parents had demanded a review of results after over one-third of […]
Pakistan has suspended an anti-polio vaccination campaign after a health worker and two police were shot dead, and a social media health scare caused near hysteria. Unknown gunmen killed one health worker and two police guards in separate attacks in […]
Both are white men in their seventies. Both spent decades in Congress making their name. And now both officially are running to be the next US president. But for all their similarities, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have starkly different […]