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...
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...
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...
An ancient culinary tradition handed down from generation to generation ... The gastronomic scenario of the Siciliainbocca Restaurant is an authentic journey through the flavors, colors and aromas typical of Sicilian cuisine: a symphony of sensations designed specifically to involve every sense and to give an experience full of unique...
For nearly 33 years, Samar Baltaji was the one-legged mother in the photo, holding the hand of her maimed daughter, Nisrine, as they walked through a landscape of Beirut at war. In a simple skirt and blouse and with a transistor radio on her hip, she stared straight into the...
My cancer, an aggressive tumour on the salivary glands, was diagnosed in early 2015. I’d first noticed the lump the previous summer, but tests proved inconclusive. It took a deep-tissue biopsy in January to confirm that it was cancerous. Because of where it was – and because it had...
“I have never seen so many brains out of their heads before!” declares Dr Michael Hfuhruhurr, the world-renowned neurosurgeon played by Steve Martin who has a love affair with a brain in a jar in the 1983 movie, The Man with Two Brains. Thirty five years on, the prospect of...
Diamonds found in a meteorite that exploded over the Nubian desert in Sudan a decade ago were formed deep inside a “lost planet” that once circled the sun in the early solar system, scientists say. Microscopic analyses of the meteorite’s tiny diamonds revealed they contain compounds that are produced under...
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...