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We shall always remember the victims of 13 November 2015. #Bataclan La culture sera la plus forte ! Click to enlarge slightly...

That’s a good question, and I thank you very much for asking it. On Saturday, 9 December 2006, my very first blog post asked a similar quest...

In fact, you ended up catching a nasty bacterial infection at the level of your tail end. According to a study conducted by researchers...

Leonard Cohen, 1976, in France                                                            [photo Istvan Bajzat/Alliances] The Cohen ...

It's weird that Leonard Cohen should leave us at a moment when US democracy seems to be heading in the wrong direction. It's w...

The holy man has just left us in painful solitude. Many years ago, in a Paris concert hall, I had the privilege of seeing blonde...

Leonard Cohen [1934-2016] We were waiting to say farewell, dear Leonard. We knew you were ready to leave. You left us so elegantl...

I don’t like to behave like an old fortune-teller who reads magic stuff from all around him. Over the last day or so, my mind has been...

The new president dreams of a friendly relationship with the smart guys in charge of Google, Apple, Facebook... who would tell him how to ca...

We shouldn't be too worried about Trump's victory. He might be able to earn dollars in real estate; but human beings need more than ...

Countries such as Canada and Australia might take advantage of Trump's win to attract high-level US scientists. In France, too, we might...

This morning, Marks & Spencer announced their intention to close more than a hundred of their shops throughout the world, includin...

                                                           [photo Daniel Leal-Olivas AFP] The marathon between Hillary Clinton and D...

The construction of a new airport for Nantes at Notre-Dame-des-Landes seems to have crashed.

Next Wednesday in Paris, presidential candidate NKM ( Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet ) will be holding a major meeting, announced by means of a...

In a living-room aquarium, in spite of its five horizontal blue stripes from head to tail, the zebrafish [ Danio rerio ], about 5 cm long, ...

Over a year ago, in July 2015, inside my house at Gamone, I suffered a severe accident. After consuming a little too much tasty white wine i...

After the problems of their Galaxy device with exploding batteries, the South Korean Samsung company is now faced with complaints about...

Super Moon photographed in September 2015 (VLADIMIR ASTAPKOVICH / RIA NOVOSTI) The most voluminous Super Moon of the 21st century w...