We are taught at a young age to acknowledge our elders and show them respect and love. Indeed, beyond hospitality, Pinoys are known the world over for the special kind of attention and care we give the elderly. Roeder Camanag is honoring this important facet of our culture through “Tag-ani,” a play about two 70-year-old […]
Authorities say at least 18 people are dead in central Mali after a boat overturned on a lake there during heavy winds.
Known for its basic, comfortable, and quality everyday clothing—aptly described as Lifewear—Uniqlo adds affordable luxury to its offerings with their Ines de La Fressange collaboration. Now on its fourth season, the fall/winter 2015 collection goes beyond daily wear with pieces suitable for special occasions, using luxurious materials such as velvet and cashmere, along with functional […]
Although press for time, Congress is determined to pass the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law before it adjourns on October 10, 2015. Senate President Franklin Drilon gave this assurance after getting the commitment of leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives at the Senate-House leadership meeting at Marco Polo Hotel at Ortigas Center in […]
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By: Thomson Reuters Foundation Bogor, Indonesia – A Mexican migrant paid a recruiter thousands of dollars for work in the United States, only to endure slavery, time in jail, and finally deportation. To make sure others did not fall prey to the same man, the migrant wrote a review of the recruiter on Contratados.org, a site […]
Scientists from the University of Cambridge have built a mother robot that independently builds its own children and then tests their performance to inform the design of the next generation. By analyzing the data it collects from observing the child, the mother robot ensures that preferential traits are passed down to the next iteration, while letting weaknesses fall by the wayside.
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron resisted calls on Thursday to take in refugees in much greater numbers after the image of a dead Syrian toddler washed up on a Turkish beach raised the emotional temperature of the debate.
SPARTANBURG – What’s Wofford like? Which adjustments have head coach Mike Ayers made to the triple option and how have the Terriers nipped at the heels of Georgia Tech, South Carolina and Clemson in the past?
There are bits missing from Robert Hendricks. And not just because he has been in a war. He is in his early sixties but has no wife, no children, no friends, not even any colleagues when the book begins, in 1980. He does have a dog, which he frequently leaves with his cleaner, but takes for walks whenever he is back in his London flat.
When Edward Snowden alleged in 2013 that the American intelligence services had tapped Angela Merkel's phone, the German Chancellor was livid, in part because her upbringing in the German Democratic Republic means that she understands the toll exacted by state surveillance on individuals and societies. About this the late East German novelist Wolfgang Hilbig would have agreed and his publishers are correct to hail his novel 'I', which is appearing in English for the first time, as "the perfect book for paranoid times". Читать дальше...
In an interview for the Irish Times in 2009, John Banville expressed a humorous despair about his characteristic modus operandi. "Book after book," he groaned, "sour old guys spilling out their bile into the readers' ear." It's true that Banville is an expert in masculine interiority and outpouring, but at the same time, the mocking note, the sardonic overtone, is never too far away. It is also true that, from book to book, a recurring protagonist persists. The particulars may change but the voice is the same... Читать дальше...
When the National Theatre published its poll of the hundred best plays of the 20th century, Sir David Hare had written five of them. Now 68, he has been a fixture of British stage and screen for the best part of half a century and this memoir – which, bar the postscript, takes readers only to 1979 – is a reminder that his talent, both to dazzle and to infuriate, emerged precociously young.
The English obsession with the weather may be a running joke, but in our age of denial – in which political blindness about climate change is reflected at a less apocalyptic level by equal myopia regarding the value of the humanities in education – Alexandra Harris's new book stands as the latest beacon in the dark.
In Salman Rushdie's latest novel a great storm envelopes New York. So begins the “the strangeness”, which is only brought to an end by an epic battle of Marvel-films proportions and the triumph of the forces of light and good over the forces of darkness and evil.
In 2011, the world's largest sperm bank, Cryos International, announced that it would no longer take "deposits" from redheaded donors; anaesthetists use approximately 20 per cent more anaesthesia to knock out redheads than they do other patients; Taylor Swift, trendy feminist and golden girl of the moment, stated: " I would do a ginger."
In Hollywood, it is not enough to just make films nowadays. Gwyneth Paltrow offers questionable diet tips via her lifestyle website, James Franco pens dodgy poetry, and Scar-lett Johansson sings lacklustre Tom Waits covers. Now another A-lister, Jesse Eisenberg – Oscar-nominated star of The Social Network – is lending his star power to the short story.
Where are you now and what can you see?
There is no story more riveting in sport than that of William Webb Ellis suddenly picking up a football and running with it during a school match for Rugby in 1823 to invent rugby. Like many such creation stories, this is almost definitely a myth, but the World Cup, which starts this month, is named after him.
I grew up an exile, in a minor way, a child of the international bourgeoisie. My family followed my father's career across suburban Europe and America: we carried British passports, sat down every week to Sunday lunch, but Britain was a foreign country.
Of all popular fiction genres, crime might at first glance seem to be one of the most circumscribed – after all, there are certain key elements that must inevitably be present (tenacious detective, plot revelations at crucial points, the denouement). But look at some of the most intriguing entries in the current crime crop and you'll see just how wide the field can be and how different the various books.
Kwasi Kwarteng was tipped for early success when he arrived as a newly elected Conservative MP in 2010, but success, in the form of promotion to ministerial office, has so far passed him by. He has, though, become an established voice of the Tory right, and a prolific writer of books. During his first four years in Parliament, he wrote two and co-authored three. He has now added another.
COLOMBO, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Marvan Atapattu has quit as Sri Lanka coach, the country's cricket board said on Thursday without giving a reason for his decision.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Around 40 kilograms (88 lb) of wool has been sheared from a sheep found near Australia's capital, the RSPCA said on Thursday, making him unofficially the world's woolliest.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The director of Taylor Swift's new music video set in Africa struck back on Wednesday at mounting criticism of the scarcity of black people in the mini-film and its romanticized portrayal of the continent.
