Contents Hotel heiress Paris Hilton has published her memoirs. The It girl of the 2000s reveals dark chapters of her family history. Paris Hilton’s autobiography initially seems like a lively circle around pink soap bubbles. But then suddenly it gets under your skin. It is a story of privilege and rebellion. And one about abandonment,…
Pius XII was pope during the Second World War – and never explicitly condemned the Holocaust. Now a letter has emerged that is intended to prove that the church leader knew about the concentration camps as early as mid-1942, months before he implicitly spoke about them in his 1942 Christmas message. Markus Ries, professor of…
Sophia Jarl, conservative mayor of Norrköping, August 29, 2023. ANDERS WIKLUND / TT NEWS AGENCY / AFP Blonde hair and parting on the right, in a suit and pumps, Sophia Jarl arranged to meet in a restaurant in Norrköping, a town of one hundred and forty thousand inhabitants, 160 kilometers south of Stockholm, which she…
LConfusion, clumsiness and amalgamations are undoubtedly what relations between France and the Sahel, poisoned by a series of military putsches fueling hostility against Paris, need the least. However, these are the unwelcome ingredients of the administrative instruction sent, Monday, September 11, by the regional directorates of the Ministry of Culture to the national drama and…
Problems caused by false reports Duma deputy complains about the culture of lies in the military September 16, 2023, 10:47 a.m A Russian politician speaks clearly about the situation on the front in Ukraine. The former deputy commander says lies within his own ranks have prevented the Russian military from winning so far. A Russian…
Musicians, photographers, screenwriters, writers, journalists and programmers are rebelling against ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligences (GAI), which train with their works without their authorization and without paying them. Petitions, strikes and lawsuits flourish. The camp of IAG publishers, on the contrary, questions the legitimacy of authors to claim rights if the artificial works do…
Contents Botero was considered one of South America’s most important contemporary artists. His voluptuous human and animal figures were his trademark. The Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero is dead. He died at the age of 91, the Ministry of Culture in Bogotá announced on Friday. “His life is the testimony of a man who…
Contents Switzerland has taken its time with an independent study on sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church. This is shown by comparison with other countries such as the USA. 2002 revealed a Team of journalists from the Boston Globe a system of cover-ups and transfers of priests in the Archdiocese of Boston. They were…
Contents Markus Raetz’s art looks good. But be careful: things can get complicated beneath the beautiful surface, because his works play with perception. The Swiss artist Markus Raetz was a kind of magician. From the 1970s onwards he made an international career: with drawings, pictures, installations and sculptures. And he put a smile on his…
Contents The series “Escape from the British Museum” is driving demands for the return of Chinese works of art. Is Beijing behind it? What is the web series about? In the video, a human teapot is looking for its way home to China. She asks a Chinese journalist in London for help. The teapot girl…
Europe 1 with AFP / Photo credit: XOSE BOUZAS / HANS LUCAS / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP 4:51 p.m., September 06, 2023 While two investigative books come out Thursday and Friday to denounce acts of abuse spotted in private nurseries, government spokesman Olivier Véran acknowledged that it was necessary to “fully enter into the culture…
DARYL DIXON Aug 18, 2023 at 1:38 p.m In “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon” Daryl roams through France and meets one or the other strange person. You can see his first funny encounter with a French woman here. “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon” and his journey through France. (Source: AMC/Screenshot Trailer) The Walking Dead: Daryl…
