At first glance, Dirty Computer looks like business as usual for Janelle Monáe. Like its predecessor, 2013’s The Electric Lady, it’s a concept album with a title that posits its creator as a part-human, part-cyborg figure, and it comes accompanied by a film in which the heroine struggles against a...
Pop star Justin Timberlake paid tribute to Prince and took selfies with fans during his Super Bowl half-time show.
The singer performed I Would Die 4 U during a hit-packed, 12-minute set in Minneapolis - Prince's home town.
Timberlake also ran into the crowd to dance and pose for photos, in an unfailingly...
The picturesque Via Camerelle of Capri, which has always been the favourite tourist destination, is home to elegant designer boutiques with timeless charm. Here, among flowering wisterias and climbing bougainvillea that paint every single glimpse of intense purple, back in 1946 Amedeo Canfora began his craft activity, differentiating himself...
Yingluck fled abroad last month fearing that the military government, set up after a coup in 2014, would seek a harsh sentence.
For more than a decade Thai politics have been dominated by a power struggle between Thailand’s traditional elite, including the army and affluent Bangkok-based upper classes, and the Shinawatra family, which...
Most of us associate Hong Kong with gleaming skyscrapers, bustling industry and frantic markets. But a succession of homegrown and international music festivals are turning it from staid metropolis into a city of song.
Clockenflap
First and foremost of Hong Kong’s music festivals is the whimsically named Clockenflap. Starting out as a...
Operations planned for Monday morning at hospitals in Manchester have been cancelled due to a mains leak affecting the water supply.
Cancer and any urgent operations will still go ahead, the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust said.
The hospitals affected are the Royal Infirmary, the Royal Eye Hospital, Saint Mary's Hospital...
The U.S. request marks yet another major setback for relations between the United States and Cuba, two countries that only recently renewed diplomatic relations after a half-century of hostility. It comes as the U.S. seeks to protect its own diplomats from unexplained attacks that have harmed at least 21 Americans in Havana with...
Ihad the whole of Palestine to myself that day. It was only a short swim from Lebanon but, as I waded ashore out of the shallow, soupy water, it became clear that I was the only visitor the island had seen for some time. Clambering to the top of...
Leprosy may have originated in Europe rather than Asia, according to the largest study to date on ancestral strains of the disease.
The study has revealed that more leprosy strains than expected were present in medieval Europe, prompting scientists to reconsider the origins and age of the devastating disease.
“For centuries...
