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Enniskillen -
Next month, G8 leaders and their entourages descend on County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland for the 39th G8 summit, on June 17-18. Like earlier summits, an agreeable location will host the event, on the shores of picturesque Lough Erne.
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Kiruna -
Secretary of State John Kerry was engaged in a different type of Cold War last week as he met with representatives of nations bordering the Arctic at the conclusion of Sweden’s two year chairmanship of the Arctic Council.
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Paris -
Young children at a private Roman Catholic school in Paris are receiving treatment for shock after witnessing a man commit suicide Thursday –– shooting himself in the head with a sawed-off shotgun.
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Dear Angelina, Firstly, Happy Mother's Day. It certainly took a mighty heart to have made the choices you've made. And then to write about them in the NY Times was even braver.
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Digital Journalist Micki Hogan takes to the air as she faces her fears and lives a life-long dream of flying while sitting front seat in a helicopter.
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Cairo -
Al-Qaeda linked militants in Egypt were planning to target both the US and French embassies in the country, before their plot was foiled.
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In the backdrop of two emerging outbreaks of H7N9 bird flu and the SARS-like novel coronavirus, the H5N1 strain has re-emerged, ushering in a third viral threat to health authorities in several countries.
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The French government is considering levying a new smartphone tax at a rate of 1% in order to protect the French entertainment-cultural industry.
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The Chinese military is reportedly set for the test flight of its first jet-powered Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UACV). Blurry photos believed to be the first shots of the Lijian ("Sharp Sword") at a distance appeared online this week.
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French health officials reported the need to test for additional cases of the SARS-like coronavirus that appears to have emerged from the Middle East, as the novel virus continues to demonstrate its ability to spread among human populations.
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On June 28, via VOD and limited theatrical release, Jason Statham's gritty London-based action movie called "Redemption" will be released.
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Toronto -
Francis Poulenc's "Dialogues des Carmélites" examines the role of faith in the face of a mob. It doesn't offer a happy ending, but it does provide a powerful opera experience. The current Canadian Opera Company production runs now through May 25th.
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The European Space Agency (ESA) announced Monday, the selection of ‘Biomass’ as the subject of its seventh Earth Explorer mission. The planned satellite will measure, to great accuracy, biomass and carbon stored in the world’s forests.
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A trailer has been released by Cohen Media for the upcoming French film called "The Attack" which is adapted from Yasmina Khadra's novel of the same name.
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Bamako -
According to the Nigerian Defense Headquarters (DHQ), a Nigerian Air Force jet deployed to operations in Mali crashed in Niger Republic Monday. Two Nigerian Air Force pilots died in the crash.
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Vultures devoured the body of a 52-year-old woman minutes after falling from a cliff in France. The woman was hiking with friends in the Pryrenees on April 14 when she fell more than 980 feet to her death from the hiking trail.
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Toronto -
Alexander Neef, General Director of the Canadian Opera Company, recently announced the company’s 2013-2014 season. It expresses not only a vision for the COC, but of opera's role in the cultural fabric of Canada's largest city.
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Paris -
Today's 'liberated' women complain loud and often about the raw deal they get from a male-dominated establishment. If they knew what Marie Curie went through, they'd bite their tongues.
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Some artists get it into their heads that being an artist makes them arbiters of social conscience. Solvers of world problems, crusaders. That's the case with a band and director who insist their graphically violent video is being censured.
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Oslo -
Per Sandberg, a Norwegian member of parliament has caused a stir in France by calling for his country’s borders to be closed to what he termed ‘organised groups’ of Roma, Bulgarians and French who, Sandberg considers, are ‘notoriously criminal’.
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