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Designating a series of moralistic lessons said to have been preached by Jesus in the vicinity of Capernaum alongside the Sea of Galilee, t...

That's the sort of unexpected news that fills me with hope and pride. The number of wild tigers has increased from 3,200 in 2010 t...

Neanderthal populations of Europe and Asia were probably weakened by pathogens that we homo sapiens  emigrants brought with us when we m...

In April 2014, Agnès Saal was nominated as president of the Institut national de l'audiovisuel (which was an emanation of the Service ...

Click here to see an impressive demo from Franky Zapata .

Last week, the French defence minister Jean-Yves Le Drian signed a contract of 350 million euros with the manufacturer Sagem for the purch...

I've just spent the evening watching two amazing documentaries on the ancient prehistory of the Australian Aborigines. Never before have...

Although I was born in Australia, and spent quite a few years there, I have to admit that I've never witnessed our most spectacular road...

The title of this blog post is an attempted translation of #nuitdebout  which is a popular nocturnal movement in Paris. The a...

Several associates of the French right-wing party Front national have found their names appearing in articles about the Panama Papers. The...

Click here to see the latest images of the infamous Brussels terrorist with a hat. Once upon a time, I was led to believe that we knew ...

Years ago, when I was starting to collaborate regularly with French software engineers, I discovered that so-called "Anglo-Saxon" ...

I'm happy to see that Richard Dawkins will be reappearing in Oxford next Saturday, at the Sheldonian Theatre, for the first public even...

Two students from Curtin University (where I once spent a year as a lecturer) were visiting New Orleans to compete in an undefined inter-uni...

Notre Elise: an outstanding journalist Click here to join in an evening of financial fun...

I have my doubts... and it saddens me.

The British prime minister  David Cameron  seems to be playing with fire. Or maybe I might say that a lot of fire seems to be playing with t...

If only my smart dog Fitzroy had been around in 218 BC, I'm sure he would have figured out rapidly the exact itinerary chosen by Hannib...

Alex de Waal is an executive in charge of Queensland tourism. So, it’s normal that he was proud in June 2014 of that nitwit invention ...

The popular French singer Renaud emerged recently from a lengthy period that appeared to be linked (?) to depression and alcohol. Next ...