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This website— Why Doctor? —deserves a prize for its choice of a good picture to illustrate their news article on an epidemic that has ju...

Whatever happened to Brittany ? Northern France ? Grenoble ? On the other hand, it's nice to see the Tour starting in Germany. As for ...

I'll put the older fellow first. And ask you to guess what they have in common. Leonard Cohen, 82, is a famous Canadian singer...

There are some strange brains Down Under. The Australian tennisman Nick Kyrgios , 21, has been suspended from competitions in principle ...

Un article dans le Washington Post , aux alentours de 00.30 [heure de Paris], annonce que l’attaque contre Mossoul vient d’être lancée par l...

  Is the title pronounced like the English words " ice " and " nice " ? Or rather like the final syllable of ...

The Slovakian cyclist Peter Sagan , world road champion last year, has just defended his title in Qatar, beating Britain’s Mark Cavendish a...

Alma Deutscher , 11, has composed an opera, Cinderella , which will be presented at Vienna on 29 December. Here’s an early chamber versi...

Last night at 11 o’clock, in the centre of the city of Angers, a third-floor balcony suddenly tore itself free and slid towards the ground, ...

I imagine an experiment in which viewers are presented with a pair of twins, both of whom have an unidentified substance in their mouth. Vie...

A French journalist at Libération was surprised by the fact that Barack Obama is sufficiently aware of artificial intelligence to be able ...

I disagree with Sam Harris when he says that he finds it interesting that people of faith only tend to pray for conditions that are ...

Our ambassador in France is Stephen Brady . You see him in the following snapshot (baldish) alongside his friend Peter Stephens (drinking m...

Well, fix them, dear Lisa, dear Lisa, dear Lisa. If you want to see what made me say those words, look at the following delightful video:...

My post of a week ago presented this video. I like it so much, and I hate Trump so much, that I’m putting it up once again.

Click here to see Barack Obama talking to America's greatest pile of elephant shit. Click here to listen to Michelle Obama t...

Pierre Etaix , 87, died this morning. He worked with Jacques Tati [1907-1982] and was married to Annie Fratellini [1932-1997], f...

At the opening of the Scottish National Party in Glasgow, Nicola Sturgeon , prime minister of Scotland, announced her intention to pre...

Bob Dylan , 75, has just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Born Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941, Dylan started his musica...