There's one country in the world with a record of 267,570 islands... and a furious desire to share them. We're talking, of course, about Sweden, and an unusual initiative to say the least.
Festive air, clouds of colored powders, singing and dancing: in India, celebrations for Holi began today, the national festival that marks the arrival of spring and which, in some villages, will continue for almost a week.
Art history continues to surprise us at times when we least expect it. Even with masters that have been studied for centuries, the past still preserves areas of shadow ready to come to light again. Such is the case right now in Amsterdam, where the Rijksmuseum attributes a painting from 1633 to Rembrandt van Rijn. The painting remained out of the official catalog for more than 60 years.
Pope Leo XIV urges priests not to use ChatGPT for their sermons (but the Vatican does use AI to translate Masses).
Auctions are sometimes filled with unusual and bizarre items, and today it's Pierre Niney's used handkerchief that's up for auction for a sum that exceeds all expectations.
You and I probably wouldn't immediately think of it and probably associate gambling mainly with sports games. Yet a number of people bet big, and also won money on the assassination of Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. This is what Reuters and Bloomberg are reporting.
In the heart of London's South Bank, at Observation Point, a new kind of fountain has appeared: it celebrates neither heroes nor classical myths.
When we think of the great predators of Earth's history, our mind immediately turns to the Tyrannosaurus rex, a pop icon, a film and documentary star, the very embodiment of primordial force.
In 2024, Palitana, in India's Bhavnagar district, made history by becoming the first city to ban the sale and consumption of meat.
The story comes to us from Canada and stars Nora Keegan, who was just 9 years old when she began to ask herself a very specific question: are air hand dryers bad for children's ears?