All orthodox Jews who live according to the Torah and Talmud should eat kosher food. But the rules are contradictory. Which fish is pure and which isn't? In America those who want to be on the safe side look out for the seal of approval given by the New ...
Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on the 17th of February 2008, thus completing a long and difficult journey towards statehood. Since the end of the war in 1999 Kosovo had been in diplomatic limbo, technically still a province of Serbia but ...
Louisiana's Angola state penitentiary, once described as 'the bloodiest prison in America' by Time magazine, is an unlikely setting for a rodeo. Home to 5,200 murderers, rapists and other violent criminals, it gained notoriety when 40 prisoners were ...
'Babies, guns, Jesus. Hot damn!'Rush Limbaugh, right-wing radio host, commenting on Sarah Palin's attributes.In a rollercoaster ride which began with her nomination as the Republican candidate for vice president at the end of August 2008, Alaska governor...
At fourteen, Tom Hanley had a part alongside Marlon Brando in 'On the Waterfront'. He played Tommy, the boy who helps Brando's Terry Malloy look after his beloved pigeons. The film's portrayal of corruption, extortion and racketeering on the Hoboken ...
On November 4th 2008, Barack Obama was elected president of the United States. The following is an excerpt from his acceptance speech in Grant Park, Chicago:'If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are ...
Controversial tactics used by London's Metropolitan Police during demonstrations are to be reviewed following the G20 summit held in the city in April 2009. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) received seventy complaints that officers had...
'It's easy to hide successfully when nobody wants to find you,' an associate of Radovan Karadzic explained with a wry smile. Former Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic was arrested by the Serbian authorities in July 2008 and yet his fellow fugitive, ...
The highlight of every English summer, Wimbledon has become a draw for tens of thousands of spectators over a bustling two weeks in June and July. The venue - the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club - in London's leafy southwestern suburbs, was ...
London-based artist Ben Wilson (47) has chosen a most unusual space to be his atelier, come rain or shine: the city's streets. And he doesn't need to bring his own canvasses to indulge in his passion. They are provided by friendly Londoners who are ...
The photographs shown here were taken over the course of 18 months from the windows of Andrew Testa's apartment in Muswell Hill, a leafy north London suburb. They are mostly taken on weekend nights between the hours of 1.00am to 4.00am when pubgoers...
The horrendous wars during the breakup of Yugoslavia made the Balkans a byword for ethnic fragmentation and inter-communal strife. Most recently, Kosovo's declaration of independence in 2008 has seen yet another chunk break away from Serbia, formerly...
According to an Icelandic saga, Erik Thorvaldsson, a man who had been exiled from Iceland for murder around the year 982 AD, sailed West with his family and a small band of followers and established a settlement on a large island in the sea to the ...
Iceland is an odd place in many ways. A windswept land of a mere 320,000 inhabitants, each of whom would have a whole 3.1 square kilometre to themselves if they spread out evenly. Icelanders are known for the environmental conscience, producing a ...
Though his exploits take him all over the globe and to some of the most dangerous places on earth, James Bond (or 007 as he's known to his handlers back at MI6) always returns back to London to debrief, recoup, unwind and receive a new set of ...
On Canada's exposed and windswept Novia Scotia coast in small fishing communities like the town of Sambro, a few experienced fishermen are keeping alive the waning craft of fishing for swordfish using harpoons. Sambro is the home of Harold ...