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The ERAS Tour: Springing Back Soon In Paris, France; 9 – 12 May 2024.
We would like to thank our generous sponsors for making this article possible. Beneath the sprawling skies of…
2024-04-07
Super Bowl Pales In Comparison To The Biggest Game In Soccer
While Americans are getting ready for what they consider the biggest sporting event of the year, the 55th…
2021-02-08
Paris and New Orleans – The Two Cities that Helped Roulette Become a Global Phenomenon
Roulette is one of the world’s most popular and fascinating games. It is also among the few offerings…
2020-12-09
France Produces The Most World Cup Players. Here’s Why.
French-born players are competing for national teams from Europe, Africa, and South America. Fifty players at this year’s…
2018-07-16
Which City Do You Think Is More Dense: Paris Or New York City?
It’s not just because they’re old. Which city do you think is more dense: Paris or New York…
2016-11-04
How Paris Attacks May (Not) Change The Fight Against IS
The brutal, co-ordinated attacks in Paris show that Islamic State (IS) retains its potency abroad. But will it…
2015-11-16
The 10 Best Flea Markets In France
France’s many brocantes (flea markets in french) are great places to find collectables or pick up a great…
2015-11-02
Why The Right Stuff Matters Most To Win The Tour De France
The Tour de France is the world’s most famous cycling competition, and not just for its sheer length…
2015-07-07
Paris’ Eiffel Tower Is Going Green
When the Eiffel Tower was built in 1889 it was only intended to last for 20 years. The…
2015-03-06
Popular UEFA Champions League Final Host Cities
The UEFA Champions League final is usually played in a neutral venue by the competition’s finalists to draw…
2022-08-02
2018’s Most Expensive Cities For Business Travel
Business travel can be a pricey affair — whether it’s grabbing that extra takeaway coffee to battle jet lag…
2018-06-08
Europe’s Most Densely Populated Square Kilometres – Mapped
Prof Alasdair Rae at the University of Sheffield has crunched data from the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) to locate…
2018-04-05
When Everything Is Automated, We Will Be Helpless During Crisis
We live in a world that is both increasingly complex and automated. So just as we are having…
2017-03-27
For The Book Lover In You, The World’s Top 10 Bookshops
Feed your inner bookworm with these magnificent bookshops. Atlantis Books, Santorini, Greece A decade ago, a group of…
2016-10-24
Major Cities Across The World Re-imagined Through A Video Game Universe
We don’t really feature video games here but a recent press release of game studio Eidos-Montreal showcasing their…
2016-09-07
The World’s Top 10 Picnic Spots For Chilling Out
10. National Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. All summer long, the Jazz in the Sculpture Garden series is music…
2016-07-22
The Top 10 Literary Cities Of The World
“You don’t write because you want to say something… you write because you have something to say…” – F.…
2016-05-17
The World’s Best Museums & Galleries To See Now
10. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands About 900,000 objects fill the Rijksmuseum, the largest collection of art and history in…
2016-05-16
11 Radical Muralists Transforming Cities Around The World
1. Dissection of a Whale by Nychos (New York, New York) Born to a family hunters, Austrian…
2015-09-10
8 Best Food Cities In The World
Travelers love to eat–that’s why every year, as part of our Readers’ Choice Awards survey, we ask our…
2015-04-30
10 Towering Facts About The Eiffel Tower
This towering iron-lattice tower is no doubt one of the most iconic symbols of Paris and France, in…
2015-03-31
360-degree Cities
The stereographic projection technique was used to convert aerial panoramas of cities including Paris, Sydney, Shanghai and Chicago…
2015-03-30
Resource Realism: The Geopolitics Of Critical Mineral Supply Chains
We would like to thank our generous sponsors for making this article possible. Executive summary Introduction Competition between…
2023-09-13
Major Shake-Up in World’s Passport Power Ranking
Japan has been knocked off the top spot on the Henley Passport Index for the first time in five years…
2023-07-19
The International Booker Prize longlist is out. Where are the authors from?
If you want to follow an ex-Soviet security officer and an ageing hippy around the Ukrainian city of…
2023-04-22
What’s New Is Old: How Economic Discontent Triggered Unrest In The Past
The latest Chief Economists Outlook warns that rising costs are stirring social unrest. This economic discontent has fed…
2022-10-15
5 Beautiful Wine Regions to Visit This Winter
Vineyards in winter are entirely different from how they look and feel when they’re soaking up the rays…
2021-12-20
9/11 Did Not Change The World – It Was Already On The Path To Decades Of Conflict
The September 11 attacks in New York and Washington were visceral in their impact. In less than three…
2021-09-11
With or without the Taliban, COVID and climate will inspire terrorism
Young jihadis across continents are turning to violence – and that will continue whatever the new old rulers…
2021-08-31
G7 Showed That Post-Trump, The World Has Shifted
What a difference a year makes in international diplomacy. A year ago, then-US President Donald Trump was obliged…
2021-06-15
G7 Is More United But Not Effective Enough To Tackle The World’s Biggest Problems
When the UK hosts the G7 summit in Cornwall between June 10 and 12, it will be the…
2021-06-11
The Evolution Of Bingo
Bingo is omnipresent. It is part of the scenery, the background. The popular game of chance is played…
2020-12-04
Here’s How To Make Public Transport Safer During COVID-19
As people around the world emerge from coronavirus lockdowns and return to work, the question of how to…
2020-09-28
The Beirut Blast Was Terrible – Nuclear Weapons Are Far, Far Worse
A new nuclear arms race is under way. The 75th anniversary of Hiroshima should make us reflect on…
2020-08-06
Why Sustainable Food Systems Are Needed In A Post-COVID World
Food systems are essential to economic activity because they provide the energy that we need to live and…
2020-07-31
U.S. Will Trail Other Rich Nations In Life Expectancy By 2030
While other nations are set to break records, America lags behind in life expectancy projections. Life expectancy is…
2020-07-13
How City Streets Are Being Transformed During COVID-19 Lockdown
After COVID-19, some city streets might never revert to how they were before the lockdown. Global-scale lockdowns have…
2020-05-28
Explore The 5 Most Popular University Campuses In The World
Every year, more and more foreign universities open overseas campuses in different countries of the world. This is…
2020-05-28
A Year After The Fire, Coronavirus Stalls Notre-Dame’s Rebirth
On 15 April 2019, a fire broke out in the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, reducing huge portions of…
2020-04-15
The 10 Biggest Empires In Human History
The Age Of Empires might be over but their influence on the current geopolitical situation is still apparent.…
2020-01-20
5 Lessons On How To Save Our Relationship With Nature In 2020
Our relationship with the natural world is broken. A million species are threatened with extinction. We can fix…
2020-01-03
The Gunpowder Plot: Torture And Persecution In Fact And Fiction
In 1605, England’s parliament was sitting on a powder keg, literally. Like now, the country was bitterly divided…
2019-11-06