In 2018, the British historian Antony “Tony” Gerald Hopkins wrote a monumental imperial history of the United States called...

From from June 18 until November 13, 2022, the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco (NMNM), in collaboration with the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin, presents 280 photographs by Helmut...

Edited by Lisa Wenger and Martina Corgnati, the autobiographical album From Childhood until 1943 and the handwritten My Biography (1970-71) by the artist herself are united in the new,...

President Ranil Wickremesinghe (*1949) appointed Dinesh Gunawardena (*1949) as the new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka and presented...

Today, July 20, 2022 the Sri Lankan Parliament elected Ranil Wickremesinghe (*1949) as President of the Democratic Socialist...

A sigh of relief in Westminster: Boris Johnson resigns. Wednesday evening, the prime minister was still resolved to fight on and sacked Michael Gove. But Gove was not alone to tell the...

[Added at 17:58 Swiss time: Sky News reports that senior Tory members, including the brand new cabinet member Nadhim Zahawi, will...

After the First Opium War from 1839 to 1842, Hong Kong became a British colony. Other nearby territories changed hands after the Second Opium War in 1860. In 1898, the British Empire forced...

I discovered Lynne Arriale — one of the greatest pianists alive — at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1999. In compositions such...

France’s 577 members of the National Assembly (Lower House) are elected in a two-round system with a run-off election if no...

Already in January 2022, Boris Johnson’s days at Number 10 seemed numbered. He survived, notably because of Putin‘s...

Until September 4, 2022 the work of the Chinese artist, human rights activist and critic of authoritarian systems Ai Weiwei (*1957 in Beijing) can be discovered at the Albertina Modern...

The art collection of the Austrian ophthalmologist Rudolf Leopold (1925-2010) contains over 5,000 objects. The core of Sammlung...

The economist Razeen Sally noted in his book Return To Sri Lanka that, in the 2015 election, the minorities – Tamils, Muslims...

[From our archives] Robert Altman is the director of classic movies such as Nashville (1975) and The Player (1992). In 2001, he has shot his best picture so far, not only from the visual...

The massive protests across Sri Lanka since March and especially April 2022 are due to the worst economic and financial crisis since gaining independence from Britain in 1948. They are the...

[From our archives, written in December 2017] The new album by the world’s greatest band, the Rolling Stones, was recorded...

[Concert review from September 1, 2000] What one could guess from listening to her last CD When I Look In Your Eyes which was...

Diana Krall: The Look of Love [Written in September 2000] With her new album The Look of Love (Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.fr, Amazon.de), Diana Krall confirms her exceptional status...

With her latest album [written in 2004], The Girl in the Other Room (Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.fr, Amazon.de), jazz singer...