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A year from today, the long-awaited Berlin Brandenburg International airport (BBI) will open next to the site...
As political reincarnations go, few have been as radical as that of Patricia De Lille, the 60-year-old...
It was meant to be a new face for France in the world – a multilingual rolling news channel to compete with...
Barbecues and ping-pong: President Barack Obama’s week-long European trip has hardly been a standard one,...
A new poll suggests that a third of those Palestinians currently living in East Jerusalem would far rather...
In Britain in the last few weeks, Manchester United footballer Ryan Giggs has become the latest public figure...
“Today’s paper is just sparkling. I’m very proud of it,” exclaims Mario García – also known as the...
There are few neighbourhoods that are as quintessentially New York as Harlem. Stretching from the top of...
In his tenth year as mayor, Bloomberg’s approval rating has hit near-record lows. In the boom years, the...
With over 1.5 million people living on an island only 23 sq miles in area, it’s no surprise that both...
In a city where nobody cooks, rising prices at New York restaurants have become a fact of life. Thomas Keller...
In a town where residents regard themselves as difficult to impress, the scale of success the public park has...
It is a special kind of relationship, and one that could prove crucial to Portugal’s recovery. In a reversal...
There was a great elephant in the room at the annual summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations....
Colombia’s airline industry is expanding at a rapid pace. International flights grew by almost a third last...
In a glitzy black-tie ceremony in Doha last week, Ricardo Karam, the Middle East’s answer to Piers Morgan,...
Hungary has a new constitution – but it could cause more problems than it solves on the diplomatic front.
London’s Soho was once famous for unmarked doors that led to private drinking clubs and semi-legal clip...
In a world in which anybody with a computer can peer into anyone else’s yard, the long-term fugitive feels...
Almost exactly 20 years ago, an American president once ridiculed as a “wimp” stood triumphant, having...
Nothing is more quintessentially “Latin American” than telenovelas: those swoon-inducing, drama-filled,...
The marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton may have gripped many in the United Kingdom, but for the 20...
In Britain, significant royal events – births, deaths, marriages, jubilees – feel like an extra Christmas....
“The strength of a prince with the yielding sensitivity of a princess-to-be.” This could be a particularly...
If the Japanese aren’t quite getting into the swing of the royal wedding you can hardly blame them. The...










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