The Dresden Armoury (Rüstkammer) is one of the world’s foremost collections of historical arms and costumes. The Electoral...

The current Vice President Kamala Harris (*1964) has chosen Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (*1960) as her running mate in the 2024...

[Added on August 4, 2024 at 15:06 Swiss time: According to CNN, Kamala Harris’s VP choice is down to Josh Shapiro, Tim Walz...

Nikki Haley (*1972) served as President Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations from January 2017 until December 2018....

It would be best if Democrats chose their new presidential candidate in an open convention, with politicians debating,...

Finally, President Joe Biden realized that he had no path forward. The race to the White House became an impossible task for him...

On July 12, 2024 Verve Records released the great album Louis in London, presented as the last great performance by the most...

On July 15, Donald Trump (*1946) made his VP decision, chose ideology over eligibility and picked Senator J. D. Vance (*1984) as...

Before the 2024 European Parliament Election, the French President Emmanuel Macron had said that this election was about the EU,...

After the last parliamentary election, it took the Dutch seven months to form a (shady) coalition government. Having won an...

Labour and Keir Starmer are the big winners of the House of Commons election with 412 out of the lower chamber’s 650 seats....

Today, July 6, 2024 Keir Starmer said in his first press conference as prime minister: «We have a clear mandate.» That is a...

Thanks to consistent polls, we can already predict that Labour led by Keir Starmer (*Sept. 2, 1962) will govern the United...

Joe Biden and his team wanted this unusually early, June 27 debate on CNN because the president is trailing the former president...

Agnes Denes A giant work by the eco-pioneer and landart master Agnes Denes, born in Budapest in 1931, ornates the Art Basel entrance at Messeplatz (photograph on top of this page). In 1982,...

On May 15, 2024, in the small city of Handlova, the Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico (*1964) was shot four times by the...

Following the merger of three important Winterthur collections to form the Kunst Museum Winterthur and the March 23, 2024...

On April 8, 2024 in Beijing, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen had a clear message for the PRC leadership and Chinese...

The first setback for Europe in Slovakia came in October 2023 with the election of the Russia-friendly, left-wing populist Robert...

The 2024 local elections in Turkey were a disaster for President Erdogan and his corrupt, anti-democratic, conservative and...