Showing 1 - 10 of 93
Tuna-obsessed Tunisia in a fish funk
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/07/2023
» Perhaps you are one of the more than 5,000 subscribers to "Popping Tins," an email newsletter devoted exclusively to tinned seafood. Perhaps you belong to a tinned-fish-of-the-month club, or have leafed through a tinned-fish-focused cookbook that tells you how best to cook a food already cooked.
A journey across London on the Elizabeth Line
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 18/06/2023
» London's magnificent Elizabeth Line opened last May, and on its first birthday there's so much to celebrate.
US museum keeps looted artefacts for now
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 12/03/2023
» As the pressure on museums and collectors to return looted artefacts to their countries of origin has grown in recent years, one issue has been whether some countries are equipped to accept them immediately.
Fireworks, flowers in Wuhan for Lunar New Year but grief lingers
AFP, Published on 22/01/2023
» WUHAN (CHINA) - Three years after a once-mysterious virus plunged the Chinese city of Wuhan into a terrifying lockdown, residents are celebrating the arrival of the Year of the Rabbit with fireworks, flowers and offerings to the loved ones they have lost to Covid-19.
Fighting for a place to breathe
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 01/01/2023
» In the shadow of a retired coal-fired power plant in India's capital, Meena Devi tries to make her family home -- four brick walls with a tin roof -- a safe place to breathe.
Defiance by candlelight as Kyiv adapts to blackouts
AFP, Published on 07/11/2022
» KYIV, Ukraine: When their apartment block in northern Kyiv goes dark just after 6:00 pm as scheduled, residents Iren Rozdobudko and Igor Zhuk are ready.
China warns of 'severe' threat to harvest from worst heatwave on record
AFP, Published on 24/08/2022
» BEIJING: China's autumn harvest is under "severe threat" from high temperatures and drought, authorities have warned, urging action to protect crops in the face of the country's hottest summer on record.
More than just the lemons
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 03/07/2022
» When Laura Kurtz staged lemonade stands as a child in Raleigh, North Carolina, they were simple affairs.
50 Years of Making Beautiful Books
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 03/04/2022
» The last book that will ever bear the David R Godine imprint is, fittingly, by David Godine himself. It's called Godine at Fifty: A Retrospective of Five Decades in the Life of an Independent Publisher, and it's a safe bet that the people who these days run his company (now called just Godine) will never put out such a volume again.
Thousands mourn Thich Nhat Hanh, bringer of mindfulness to the West
AFP, Published on 23/01/2022
» HUE: Thousands of mourners packed a pagoda in Vietnam's Buddhist heartland on Sunday to pay tribute to the late Vietnamese monk and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh, credited with bringing mindfulness to the West.