British historian Julian Jackson has played a crucial role in creating the French cinema sensation of the year: a two-part biopic about 20th-century political colossus Charles de Gaulle. The 72-year-old scholar is the author of the definitive modern biography of the French wartime leader “A Certain Idea of France”, which became popular among French readers […]
Read MoreAfter having its hopes dashed for a more ambitious deal last year in Brazil, the European Union is setting its sights low for next month’s COP31 climate summit in Turkey. The UN gathering in Antalya is being framed by Brussels as more about “implementation” than major announcements, with a focus on efforts to replace fossil […]
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Der Bundesgerichtshof (BGH) verhandelt am Donnerstag (09.00 Uhr) in Karlsruhe über Cookies – die kleinen Datensätze, die eine Seite beim Surfen im Internet zwischenspeichert. Die Frage ist, wer dafür haftet, wenn diese Cookies ohne Einwilligung der Nutzer gespeichert werden. Ein Nutzer klagte gegen ein Technologieunternehmen, das auf seinen Endgeräten Cookies gesetzt haben soll, ohne dass […]
Read MoreThis year’s Nobel literature prize could go to a Latin American or Caribbean woman when it is awarded on Thursday amid efforts to diversify an award that has most often gone to male, European authors, literary critics say. There is no public shortlist for the Nobel, and since the nominees and the jury deliberations remain […]
Read MoreThis year’s Nobel literature prize could go to a Latin American or Caribbean woman when it is awarded on Thursday amid efforts to diversify an award that has most often gone to male, European authors, literary critics say. There is no public shortlist for the Nobel, and since the nominees and the jury deliberations remain […]
Read MoreAfter simmering below the surface for years, anger at unaffordable housing in Spain has bubbled over and precipitated a general election that will be dominated by the crisis. The spark was ignited on September 23 when 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal was evicted from her lifelong Madrid home on a stretcher after the real estate firm that […]
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A convicted US killer who survived a botched execution was almost taken off life support before she regained consciousness, her lawyer said Wednesday, as a court ordered prison authorities to preserve evidence in the case. One week after Christa Pike survived her execution by lethal injection, the state of Texas carried out the execution of […]
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Guinea-Bissau’s junta leader General Horta N’Tam urged members of the presidential guard loyal to exiled former president Umaro Sissoco Embalo to voluntarily lay down their weapons on Wednesday. The army seized power in the perennially unstable and poor west African nation just days after a presidential vote last November, overthrowing Embalo and suspending the electoral […]
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The palm-sized green turtle hatchling flailing through the sand on a Malaysian island may seem vulnerable, but its species has emerged as a symbol of hope for wildlife conservation. Green turtles have made the rare jump from endangered to “least concern” in global conservation rankings, a remarkable success when many species are declining. Conservation NGO […]
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