Arts & Culture
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Banker fined $84 million for smuggling Picasso painting out of Spain
Jaime Botin, the ex-chairman of Bankinter, was also given an 18-month prison term on Thursday but he is unlikely to…
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If you can read this headline, you can read a novel.
Public anxiety about the capacity of digital-age children and young adults to read anything longer than a screen grab has…
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Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh jailed ‘for 38 years’ in Iran
Nasrin Sotoudeh, an internationally renowned human rights lawyer jailed in Iran, has been handed a new sentence that her husband…
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The meaning of life – a psychologist’s view
Prominent atheist Richard Dawkins, for example, claims that human beings are just “throwaway survival machines” whose only purpose is to…
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‘It’s miraculous’: Owners say cultural burning saved their property
The Aboriginal elder had poured his heart and soul into Ngurrumpaa – an isolated 160-acre bushland property with a main…
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Politics take center stage at the Golden Globes, as ‘1917’ and ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ take top prizes
As to the business at hand, the World War I epic “1917” and “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood”…
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Georges Duboeuf: ‘Pope of Beaujolais’ wine dies aged 86
He was best known for turning the release a little-known French product – an ordinary red wine called Beaujolais Nouveau…
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Instagram vertoramas show world in a ‘different way’
That is Sarah Fouracres’ aim when she posts her vertoramas on Instagram. Martin Barber BBC A vertorama is a vertical…
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How to rethink your idea of success in the new year – according to ancient Stoic philosophers
Do you want to progress in your career or perhaps buy a house? John Sellars The Conversation Maybe you’re looking…
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Ten books to read in 2020
Colum McCann, Apeirogon McCann’s new novel, named after “a shape with a countably infinite series of sides”, is a glorious…
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Top 100 Photos – 2019
The world may move faster, and the images it produces faster still. But what remains in the mind is the…
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Sydney NY organisers dismiss grassroots campaign to ‘say no to fireworks’
Just one day out from New Year’s Eve, a growing online campaign is fighting to cancel all fireworks demonstrations across…
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Dili wedding. How Australian farm work nudges up Timor’s marriage rate
The bulk of the cost comes from the “barlake”, a Tetum word which can be translated as “dowry”, or “bride…
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Burkina Faso: Christmas Day in a Christian-Muslim household
Christmas Eve saw more than 30 people, mostly women, killed in a suspected jihadist attack. BBC But behind such grim…
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Pope’s Christmas message: Do good even if others are not good to you
The service is one of the most important ceremonies in the Catholic liturgy, marking the birth of Jesus Christ. Thousands…
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The story of Hanukkah: how a minor Jewish holiday was remade in the image of Christmas
From Melbourne and New York to Berlin and Moscow, thousands of people will gather to light giant menorahs. Rebecca Forgasz…
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