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Meet the suffragist who changed the face of women’s golf
Annie Fricke took up golf in the 1920s to improve her handicap. During the war, though, she sent…
Since 2011: the state of legal evictions in Spain
One year after the crisis exposed the worst in the global financial market, Spaniards are still suffering. Unemployment…
Mario Vargas Llosa warns against the ‘Age of the Strongman’ in Brazil
Mario Vargas Llosa has an uneasy relationship with Brazil’s President Michel Temer. In 2015, after he was sworn…
Museum of Fine Arts in Paris reopens with hajis selling gemstone dresses
“Princess [Maud] was very very concerned with food, in Morocco,” the curator of the Musee d’Orsay, Marie-Hélène Lebeau,…
The best Asian train journeys
Most travel writers can list multiple travel websites, but far fewer can name half a dozen. Travelling the…
The science behind the plant-based meat revolution
One of the main reasons the average British man and woman fail to reach their recommended dietary intake…
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Meet Kaitlyn Jackson, the former motocross racer who’s doing off-road racing for women
At age 16, she’s already the first female American and is racing in pro-cross at 7,000 feet at speeds of up to 140 mph in the off-road racing circuit. And…
Israel says it will ‘prevent’ U.S. moving its embassy to Jerusalem
By Francesco Guerrera, CNN(CNN) — Israel doubled down against the United States on Thursday, claiming there is no room in Jerusalem for an American Consulate for Palestinians, and promising to…
Trump is going the wrong way when picking CEOs
Rep. Dan Lipinski, D-Ill., listens during a news conference on Capitol Hill on Nov. 9, 2015. (Ron Edmonds/AP)It’s easy to compare Hubert Joly to Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric…
The iconic walkability of an iconic building
In the grand history of builds that became urban works of art, nothing compares to “walking” a building. To the experts, this is the latest expression of a brilliant design…
