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...Back in November 2021 I reported how Isabelle Regiani, an English teacher from Jean Jaurès middle school in Sarreguemines in eastern France had — after 22 years — given up going on school trips to the UK...
...“Great for Al, bad for America,” says a woman near me, swigging back the dregs of her beer. Al, who is sitting across the table, has put money on the Chiefs and is looking smug....
...To this day, many Americans will take their first steps on the road to appreciating art via the legacy of Frick, Rockefeller, Carnegie et al....
...“I’m 45 now . . . they’re still in power.” Funerals were held for the dead on Friday, including one woman reportedly shot on her balcony....
...At the café beside Route 90, the two-lane highway that serves as the spine of the Jordan Valley, nearly all the customers are armed....
...“[Scrapping the test would be a] political band-aid [that] would not fix a single one of the [city’s] 480 broken middle schools,” says Kirsten John Foy — a former aide to Al Sharpton, one of the city’s most...
...“The Americans removed Saddam because he was bad, but they brought 200 Saddams,” said Jala Shakir, a 45-year-old driver in Adhamiyah....
...Along the way they became global stars, a combination of their David v Goliath adventure and their supporters’ fearsome Viking-style chanting....
...Pavel, a bearded and battle-hardened 45-year-old Ukrainian soldier, says the nature of the war has changed....
...What White-painted three-storey villa built in 1935 with a large terrace and garden Why Five minutes by car from Copenhagen International School Who Danbolig, tel: + 45 38 41 70 00, tel: + 45 32 54 32...
...Heavy traffic clogs the two-lane road along the coast and is notoriously dangerous. Those who can, especially the young, emigrate....
...It said a bakery and a school sheltering displaced families were hit....
...He came top in the baccalaureate in his district, he was awarded a scholarship from president Hafez al-Assad, father of the current embattled Syrian leader....
...In research published last year, the Princeton economist and his wife, Anne Case, documented an alarming surge in deaths among poorly-educated middle-aged white men in the US largely due to suicides and...
...Serious Sweet, by AL Kennedy, Cape, RRP£17.99 Set over the course of a single day, and travelling from Piccadilly to Chiswick via Knightsbridge, AL Kennedy’s latest novel is an ambitious, perambulatory...
...In addition to its UK property portfolio, Stone Company also bought a nine-storey office block at Avenue George V in Paris for $160m in 2007....
...The Shepherd’s Life: A Tale of the Lake District, by James Rebanks, Allen Lane, RRP£16.99 Part shepherd’s calendar, part memoir, part encomium for fell farming, Rebank’s book follows the four seasons to...
...Beer gardens are either German, as in Hayes Valley’s Biergarten, or old-school punk, at Zeitgeist....
...… Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648, by Mark Greengrass, Allen Lane, RRP£30/ Viking, RRP$45 The political and religious conflicts of early modern Europe receive high-quality treatment from Greengrass...
...The emails from Baghdad popped up in the middle of my London workday....
...His new darkly humorous collection centres largely on middle-aged men and their perceived failures in life....
...We all know about Richard Branson et al: they are a cliché. Yet the explanation offered is unexpected....
...The 1,100-hectare Zoute district of Knokke-Heist includes a golf course, a nature reserve and winding lanes of whitewashed, green-shuttered mansions....
..."We prefer being here among the people,” said Ezzedine el-Khader, a Muslim Brotherhood official overseeing volunteer projects in the northeast Cairo district of Ain al-Shams....
...Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin in the Middle Taiga, by Sylvain Tesson, translated by Linda Coverdale, Allen Lane, RRP£16.99/Rizzoli, RRP$24.95 In 2010, Tesson spent six months alone in a cabin...
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