“I think it would be a good idea,” said Indian independence hero Mohandas Gandhi famously when asked by a British journalist about what he thought about modern civilisation. But Gandhi was hardly a foe of the West. He counted three white men – Henry Salt, John Ruskin and Leo Tolstoy – as his mentors, wept when London was bombed during World War Two, and even hired Indians to fight in […]
Rain Forest Warriors: How Indigenous Tribes Protect the Amazon With outside help, tribes like the Kayapo defend their land against ranchers, loggers, and miners. The destruction of the Amazon in Brazil can be seen by satellite: Where logging roads have spread their tentacles and ranchers have expanded their grazing, all is brown. Beginning in the early 1980s, these photos from space lost more and more green, so that by 2004 […]
Suste Bonnen was given access to Copenhagen University Hospital Respected Danish photographer captures moment baby is given to mother Ms Bonnen followed 22 caesarean operations on the maternity ward ‘Bloody and gory’ images are ‘testimony to the magical wonder of life’ Warning: Graphic content A photographer has captured the wondrous, miraculous moment of birth – in all its raw and unglamourised glory. Taken before a mother has seen her baby […]
South Sudanese troops are preparing to enter the rebel-held town of Bor, President Salva Kiir has said. Mr Kiir told parliament the army was “ready to move”, adding that the counter-attack had been delayed to allow US citizens to be airlifted out. Bor, in the restive state of Jonglei, fell to rebels on Wednesday. A week of ethnic violence has raised fears of civil war. UN humanitarian staff have […]
Toronto ice storm leaves 300,000 with power TORONTO — A steady dose of freezing rain across parts of Eastern Canada turned roads and sidewalks into skating rinks Sunday, cut power to hundreds of thousands of people, and played havoc with holiday plans at one of the busiest travel times of the year. Anxious passengers found themselves stranded in airports from Toronto to St. John’s, N.L., days before Christmas. Some 300,000 […]
It is two days before Christmas and we couldn’t be farther from a mall or a computer feverishly buying last-minute gifts. I’m not wrapping, cooking or hosting a crowd of out-of-town guests either. Instead, my husband and I, our 21-year-old daughter, Melanie, and our friend, Enesi Domi, 14, who lives in the Bronx, are taking a leisurely walk in the snow in New Hampshire’s White Mountains with other families — […]
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Rosie has always had show-stopping lips, but the model’s signature pout has been looking extra puffy as of late. Renee Zellweger What happened to her face? The “Bridget Jones” star sported a very different face a recent movie premiere. Lara Flynn Boyle Actress Lara Flynn Boyle is almost unrecognizable in recent photos. Did she go under the knife? Nicki Minaj Nicki Minaj’s hair color and style are […]
The pilot of a Mozambican airliner that crashed in Namibia last month deliberately brought the plane down, aviation experts in Mozambique believe. Mozambican Airlines flight TM470 left the capital Maputo bound for Angola on 29 November, but crashed, killing all 33 people all board. The Civil Aviation Institute said the pilot made a “deliberate series of manoeuvres” causing the crash. The pilot’s motives are unknown, and the investigation is continuing. […]
Reindeer are featured on Christmas cards and in movies worldwide this time of year, galloping across the sky with Santa’s sleigh in tow. But on Europe’s northern fringe, the migratory mammals are part of everyday life all year round as they roam the fells of Lapland – the Arctic homeland of the indigenous Sami people of Norway, Sweden, Finland and northwest Russia. Here are some interesting things you may […]
Catherine “Tina” Lancelotta had always been a whiz. When her husband started a masonry business, she was given the job of double-checking his math on cost estimates for customers. When she worked in the drapery department at Jordan Marsh department store, she could mentally tabulate the amount of fabric it would take to cover a window’s dimensions. For years, her go-to pastime was crossword puzzles, and she completed one each […]
