Japanese manga "The Rose of Versailles" features elaborate outfits, palace intrigues and passionate romances set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, but it also has its own revolutionary credentials.. Author of "The Rose of Versailles" Riyoko Ikeda was involved in left-wing politics and has said she deliberately set out to shake up traditional tropes in manga.
Deep in the Qatari desert, security guards have a lonely time keeping 24-hour watch over one of the world's most isolated artworks, created by renowned US sculptor Richard Serra.. Round-the-clock watch over "East-West/West-East", with guards and cameras, started after vandals struck several times in 2020 and 2021.
With its four huge white chimneys Battersea Power Station has dominated the London skyline for decades, making it one of the British capital's most distinctive landmarks.. The power station is just the latest landmark to get a makeover for the post-industrial age.
Depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychosis: Yemen's seven years of brutal civil war have caused an explosion of mental illness overwhelming the basic health care services.. About three-quarters of the patients present "severe mental health disorders", she added, including "psychosis, depression, bipolar disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder".
For many in China, years of gruelling lockdowns and privacy invasions aimed at extinguishing Covid have caused misery.. General curbs that erode privacy and limit movement have also caused anger and resentment.
Posh-looking drivers in expensive cars are honking their horns on a beachfront avenue in Rio de Janeiro, blaring their approval at a vendor selling green-and-yellow Brazilian flags outside President Jair Bolsonaro's former home.. - Bolsonaro's hood - Bolsonaro, then a congressman representing Rio, moved to Barra with his family in the 2000s.
The United States promised Thursday to do more to combat arms smuggling with Mexico, which said that early efforts have succeeded in denting the country's long dire homicide rate.. Mindful of political sensitivities in the United States, where the rival Republican Party champions the right to bear arms, Mayorkas stressed that the two countries were working only against transnational smuggling and not on domestic gun policy.
The Sacre-Coeur basilica atop the hill of Montmartre in Paris will finally be classified as a protected historical monument, ending a long dispute embedded in the city's bloody revolutionary history. . Local officials are next hoping to win world heritage status from UNESCO for the entire Montmartre hill. pyv-kp/er/bp
Germany's largest mosque will for the first time broadcast the call to prayer on Friday after city authorities in Cologne gave the go-ahead for a pilot project, under strict limits.. Mosques in several cities in Germany have long been authorised to broadcast the call to prayer, but Cologne city only approved it from last October.
Europe has a new epic trail to rival the Camino to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.. Useriu wanted to create something similar to the ancient pilgrim route to Santiago or the vast American Pacific Crest Trail.
