Antipodes

Ever since I've been living here at Gamone, I've had problems with machines driven by combustion motors... with the exception of my ...

Just as a glass of wine can be envisaged as either half-full or rather half-empty, there are two ways of reacting to the following news item...

The much-awaited new version of the Macintosh operating system, known as Leopard , became available a week ago, but I had to wait for a few ...

This afternoon, while installing a new lamp on the façade of my house, I heard sirens down on the road that runs alongside the Bourne. A few...

Today is my daughter's birthday. She phoned me up this morning and suggested that we should get in contact through the free visual telec...

This 64-year-old American intellectual and administrator, Nicholas Negroponte , of Greek origins, is a visionary , of the same kind as Apple...

Throughout the Cosmos, and beyond, members of the Harry Potter sect were astounded—to say the least—to hear author J K Rowling saying rece...

French TV viewers are so accustomed to images of Bernard Laporte , former trainer of the national rugby team, either observing a match or de...

She's not in the same heavyweight category as Al Gore, but Australian star Cate Blanchett has just revealed that she's making a per...

Who is this middle-aged Macintosh user, in a cluttered office, whose personal computing comfort apparently necesitates the simultaneous use ...

There's a common French understatement for situations in which you're mildly ashamed of yourself because of a negative action for wh...

In the same way that General de Gaulle used to dream of a European Union that would stretch from the Atlantic to the Ural Mountains in weste...

[This is my 500th Antipodes post.] Tomorrow, at the Vatican, 498 ecclesiastic "martyrs" of the Spanish Civil War [1936-1939] will ...

Yesterday morning, Sophia started to bark, the bell rang and, when I scrambled downstairs, I found a fellow delivering the new phone directo...

Concerning state-owned buildings in which people either work or reside, or both [as in the case of a foreign embassy, for example], the Fren...

I've realized for ages that France and Australia are rarely on the same wavelength on sociopolitical issues. Today, in the environmental...

The war-time story that I am about to tell has given rise to a controversy in France, which culminated yesterday when schoolteachers were ex...

Back in the 15th century, when Victor Hugo's personages Esmeralda the Bohemian and the hunchback Quasimodo lived on the Ile de la Cité...

As soon as I noticed the exceptional color of the Cournouze, hit by the rays of the setting sun beaming through a gap in the mountains, I da...

Does an outspoken Nobel Prize winner such as 79-year-old James Watson —US co-discoverer, in 1953, of the structure of DNA—have the right to ...