The Cannes Festival, until 2002 called the International Film Festival (Festival international du film) and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries from all around the world. Read More »
Hundreds of the world’s most hirsute hopefuls have descended on Antwerp, Belgium for the 2019 World Beard and Moustache Championships. Read More »
Battered by U.S. sanctions and its depreciating rial currency, 80 million people struggle to buy meat, medicine and other staples of daily life. Read More »
Vietnam, is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula. With an estimated 94.6 million inhabitants as of 2016, it is the 15th most populous country in the world. Read More »
Today, a year after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle tied the knot at Windsor Castle, we had a bit of royal wedding déjà vu as Lady Gabriella Windsor celebrated her nuptials to financier Thomas Kingston at the same venue. Read More »
In modern politics and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: representing the electorate, making laws, and overseeing the government via hearings and inquiries. Read More »
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word football is understood to refer to whichever form of football is the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears. Read More »
In the context of human society, a family is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth), affinity (by marriage or other relationship), or co-residence (as implied by the etymology of the English word “family”) or some combination of these. Read More »
North Korea’s elite aren’t spending close to $1 million a year on coffee like Kim Jong Un. They probably don’t have billions in the bank like America’s richest people. Read More »
The Rio Grande is one of the principal rivers (along with the Colorado River) in the southwest United States and northern Mexico. Read More »