Crisis will most exercise busy Hollande over coming weeks
| RUADHN Mac CORMAIC | ANALYSIS:The French president is in the US for summits but his biggest concerns are much nearer home | FOREIGN POLICY may have been largely absent from the French presidential...
Dexys perform 'Come On Eileen' on Jools Holland
| Dexys Midnight Runners are back as simply Dexys and they appeared on the Tuesday night edition of the BBC's Later...With Jools Holland. | Their first album in 27 years, One Day I'm Going to Soar, wi...
Lorraine O’Grady: ‘New Worlds’
| Alexander Gray Associates ArtsBeat | Breaking news about the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia and more. Go to Arts Beat » | A sortable calendar of noteworthy cultural eve...
French president Hollande keeps pledge to women
| Paris: France's Socialist President Francois Hollande yesterday approved Cabinet appointments which give women half of the 34 posts — as he had promised during the campaign — a fir...
Enriching the lives of those with special needs
| Zaid Jaffar calls himself the King of Art. And he has good reason. His painting, titled On Mask Batman, has been garnering praise for him ever since it was exhibited late last year at the Dubai Inte...
Hollande keeps pledge to women
| Paris: France's Socialist President Francois Hollande yesterday approved Cabinet appointments which give women half of the 34 posts — as he had promised during the campaign — a fir...
Europe's rise of the far right
| Twenty-one members of Golden Dawn were sworn into Greece's Parliament on Thursday (local time), making it the most far-right party to enter a European legislature since Nazi-era Germany. Europe's fi...
China, Netherlands to enhance parliamentary exchange
| Wu Bangguo (2nd L), chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC), meets with presidents of the First and Second Chamber of Dutch parliament Fred de Graaf (1st R) an...
Answer to hunger pangs
| Trying to solve a hunger crisis is no easy task, but a spirited team of engineers is wrapping their head around a design which aims to solve this pertinent issue. Bengaluru boy Aditya Kamalapurkar, ...
Francois Hollande pay cut defines the austere way
| FRANCOIS Hollande attempted to recover overnight from a squabble over his choice of prime minister by ordering ministers to take a 30 per cent pay cut. | The French President, who appointed a govern...
A Way Up for Women in Business
| THE HAGUE — Using Mount Kilimanjaro as a metaphor for business, 15 business students set out to climb Africa’s highest peak last September as part of an elective course at the Rotterdam ...
Strength within
| The women in Lita Cabellut's paintings have a distinctly oriental look. Each of them is draped in layers of fabric, and her head and most of her face is covered with a scarf. Yet her portrait tells ...
Tories unleash attack dogs over Mulcair's 'Dutch disease' thesis
| OTTAWA - The Harper Conservatives have finally unleashed the attack dogs on Tom Mulcair. | They've pounced on the newly minted NDP leader's musings about the economic impact of Alberta's oilsands to...
Greek party most extreme of Europe's far right
| Twenty-one members of Golden Dawn were sworn into Greece's Parliament on Thursday, making it arguably the most far-right party to enter a European national legislature since Nazi-era Germany. Europe...
Mulcair faces 'Dutch disease' barrage
| OTTAWA - Western premiers have a chance later this month to show a united front against NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair's theory the resource boom is hollowing out Quebec and Ontario economies. | The prem...
Greek party most extreme of Europe's far right
| Twenty-one members of Golden Dawn were sworn into Greece's Parliament on Thursday, making it arguably the most far-right party to enter a European national legislature since Nazi-era Germany. Europe...
When booze costs more, boozers will go Dutch...or Russian
| Standing a round is a fine British tradition. It’s also a prohibitively expensive one when a dozen colleagues go out for a swift half after work. (Translation for outlanders: ‘a swift ha...
Robin van Persie awaits suitors as he delays signing new Arsenal deal
| • Holland striker will not rush to sign contract | • Manchester City and Juventus interested Robin van Persie has opened negotiations with Arsenal but has indicated he is in no rush to sign a ne...
