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Woman who was given the Freedom of the City of London
Daily Mail· 6 days agoThe City of London Corporation (CLC) said it 'offered our sincerest apologies to Anna Landre for the...
Paris ceremony 'Last Supper' parody sparks controversy
Reuters· 4 days agoA parody of Leonardo Da Vinci's famous fresco 'The Last Supper' featuring drag queens in the Olympic opening ceremony in Paris has sparked fury among the Catholic church and far-right politicians ...
In Olympic village, heat tests limits of organisers' green ambitions
Reuters· 16 hours agoThe Paris 2024 organisers had hoped their innovative self-cooling Olympic Village apartments would make air conditioning redundant, helping them to deliver the greenest Games in history. After ...
Roland Dumas Dies at 101; French Foreign Minister Tainted by Scandal
New York Times· 5 days agoA lawyer and confidant of François Mitterrand, he was in the forefront of French politics for...
Putin warns the US of Cold War-style missile crisis
Reuters· 3 days agoRussian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday warned the United States that if Washington deployed long-range missiles in Germany then Russia would station...
Increase in adult population experiencing problem gambling
Daily Mail· 5 days agoBut the regulator warned the latest estimates aren't directly comparable with results from prior...
Macron's 'crazy' Olympics plan for a floating parade on the Seine
Reuters· 6 days agoWhen early proponents of hosting an unprecedented Olympics opening ceremony along the river Seine...
Announcements - Nature
Nature· 5 days agoDr. G. L. Brown, of the National Institute for Medical Research, to the Jodrell chair of physiology tenable at University College as from October 1, 1949. The title of professor of logic and ...
An AI walks into a bar... Can artificial intelligence be genuinely funny?
BBC News· 2 days agoKaren Hobbs was more nervous than usual before this particular gig. A well-known circuit comedian,...
Why Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Faces Hard Task ‘Coming For’ Labour
Bloomberg via Yahoo News UK· 5 days ago(Bloomberg) -- When Brexit architect Nigel Farage announced he was standing for Reform UK in the...