Posts by Cosmopolitan Canada
Holocaust artefacts sent to Auschwitz archives after auction backlash
Hundreds of Holocaust-related documents whose planned auction in Germany sparked international outrage have been handed over to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation. According to a statement issued by the foundation on Friday, 433 historical documents were formally transferred during a ceremony at the state parliament of Germany’s western North Rhine-Westphalia region. The collection includes camp postcards, letters…
Read MoreI’m no angel, Italy’s PM says amid church fresco row
Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, joked on Saturday she does not look like an angel, after a row blew up in the media over a restored fresco in a Rome church. Some of Italy’s press have been asking whether the premier served as inspiration for a cherub painted in a chapel in the San Lorenzo…
Read MoreOne Last Sundance in Park City
I encountered a version of this phenomenon on the first morning of my first Sundance. Trying to find my way around festival headquarters, I ran into a colleague from Variety, my employer at the time, who blurted out the news that Fox Searchlight Pictures had just bought “Little Miss Sunshine” for a whopping ten and…
Read MoreIsrael faces looming liquified gas shortage despite Gov’t assurances of supply stability
Israel’s reliance on minimal Liquified Petroleum Gas reserves leaves its economy vulnerable, and winter could bring serious supply issues. Despite recognizing worst-case scenarios, Israel now confronts a minimal security stockpile, particularly concerning its gas supply. The government has assured that there are no reported shortages in supply. However, concerns have been growing, especially among businesses…
Read MoreSiblings want ‘beautiful’ sister to be remembered
The siblings of a student who was murdered 10 years ago after a night out, have said the pain has never gone away and want their beautiful sister to be remembered. India Chipchase, 20, was raped and killed by Edward Tenniswood in Northampton after he offered to get her home safely. Harry Chipchase, 28, said…
Read MoreArctic air mass keeps Ozarks in bitter cold
We just can’t escape it. An Arctic air mass continues to keep bitter cold locked over the Ozarks. Thankfully, this weekend brings a return to the cold without the winter weather chaos we experienced last weekend. Our main goal tonight is to keep temperatures out of the negatives. That will be a challenge, as the…
Read MoreIDF announces capture of one of Hamas’s top remaining commanders during overnight operations
The capture happened after Friday’s strike, in which three out of eight Hamas terrorists were killed while leaving a tunnel in Rafah, the military announced. The IDF announced the capture of one of Hamas’s top remaining commanders during Friday’s operation in Rafah, where eight terrorists were identified by troops coming up from below the ground,…
Read MoreISIL claims responsibility for Niger airport attack
The ISIL (ISIS) armed group has claimed responsibility for an attack on an air force base at Niger’s main airport. The ISIL-affiliated Amaq News Agency reported on Friday that the group carried out a “surprise and coordinated attack” on the base at Diori Hamani International Airport near the capital, Niamey. It claimed the attack caused…
Read MoreDiscover the story behind Spain’s prized jamón ibérico de bellota
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). I watch, tentatively at first, as the pigs lumber around us, their long, dark bristles glinting in the muted morning light. A low chorus of grunts rises and falls across the grassy plain as they press their black hooves into the damp earth. A few approach…
Read MoreTurkey’s STM lays the keel of the first ship for the Portuguese navy
ANKARA — The keel of the first naval support vessel for the Portuguese sea service was laid in Ada Shipyard in Istanbul this week. Turkish shipbuilder STM had signed a contract to build two Auxiliary Oiler Replenishment (AOR) and Logistics Support Ships in Lisbon on Dec. 17, 2024. This marked Turkey’s first military ship export…
Read More“An Ark” Imagines the Afterlife; “Data” Imagines a Corporate Hell
There will be future applications of “mixed reality,” I’m sure, and I hope they work with funkier material. Personally, I’d rather get clobbered by holographic McKellens than be told not to panic, which just made me miss Douglas Adams. Truly pleasurable interactive theatre requires a touch of panic, or, at least, of raw sensation. In…
Read MoreA Century of Life in the City, at the Movies
The Australian singer-songwriter Hatchie has steadily built a little dream-pop world suspended between the synth music of Kylie Minogue and the washed-out guitars of the Cocteau Twins. Following stints in a few Brisbane indie bands, in 2017, Harriette Pilbeam uploaded the song “Try” to the website of the radio station Triple J under her family…
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