According to the projections of The International Organization of La Francophone, the language of Molière will retain its status in the next half-century thanks to the demographic growth of Africa.
Category: Society
Often accused of sympathizing with the left, Pope Francis has a simpler ‘apolitical’ view of politics and public office: it should be at the service of the disadvantaged.
Two and a half centuries after his birth, the famed German explorer and scientist is still remembered for his brilliant mind and boundary-testing taste for adventure.
Current nationalism in post-Partition India and Pakistan can’t kill the spirit of the independent businesses that embody memory and history.
Pigeonly is one of several applications that were designed by ex-cons and are transforming the way U.S. prisoners communicate with the outside world.
Just because someone has something to say about the latest current-events controversy doesn’t mean they should.
High-quality grapes from Champagne production used to be made into ratafia liqueur. Now French winemakers are exploring a more trendy (and Russian!) alternative.
Sociologists say there are certain historical and cultural elements behind the country’s fondness for confrontation.
After more than five years in prison, Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid, a.k.a. Shawkan, is finally free. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/FMEXMgd3AnU expand=1] © Mohamed El Raai/DPA/ZUMA – March 4, 2019 OneShot is a new digital format to tell the story of a single photograph in an immersive one-minute video. Follow OneShot:
Quality higher education in Colombia and vigorous student activism – not student rioting – will shake a complacent elite and help cleanse public life of its longstanding corruption
HOLZKIRCHEN — Holzkirchen-Süd rest stop at 1 p.m., when many drivers stop for lunch. Lawyer Nadia Kluge very slowly approaches a truck, keeps a little distance, and starts a conversation. She explains that she is from the German Trade Union Confederation, works for the “Fair Mobility” counseling center in Munich, and is looking to see […]
Chinese students visiting Chile’s universities are eager to learn Spanish but reluctant to adopt its socio-cultural habits. How much does the language gap different identities?
PARIS — European history has shown, time and again, that anti-Semitism is an indicator that the social state has become unstable. It’s therefore not shocking that it’s developing today in France, linked in particular to fringes of the anti-establishment yellow vest movement. The paths laid between a society in crisis and anti-Semitism have been laid […]
“Legendary,” “pioneering,” “the savior of Chanel,” “fashion icon…” Superlatives abound in international headlines as news outlets take a moment to pay homage to the German-born designer Karl Lagerfeld, who has died in Paris at age 85. Nicknamed the “Kaiser” of fashion, the creative director of both the French luxury fashion house Chanel and the Italian brand Fendi had become as much an icon as the clothes he designed. OneShot pays its respects to the unmistakable black-and-white fashion genius. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/aDPewd2bK7g expand=1] The Kaiser Of Fashion Leaves The Runway — © Hendrik Ballhausen/DPA/ZUMA/OneShot OneShot is a new digital format to tell […]
As the Japanese government plans to accept up to about 340,000 new foreign workers over the next five years, coexistence may become an issue.
Included in a new exhibition in Rosario, Argentina — Che’s birthplace — are images not just of the famous revolutionary, but taken by him.
Competition is fierce as no fewer than six self-service electric scooter startups vie for control of a Parisian market particularly cut out for the light mobility solution.
Zeina Nassar is already a national featherweight champion. But to reach greater heights, she’ll have to overcome international boxing’s restrictive dress-code.
UNICEF marks the International Day against the Use of Child Soldiers on Feb. 12. Also known as Red Hand Day, it calls for urgent action to end the recruitment of children by armed groups. Youth are increasingly vulnerable as conflicts around the world become more brutal, intense and widespread. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/3vZmtWQyE1w expand=1] UNICEF for International Day Against The Use Of Child Soldiers — Stevie Mann/UNICEF/OneShot This image comes during a demobilization ceremony near the town of Rumbek, in central South Sudan, as the photographer, Stevie Mann, captured the moment that adolescent boys walk away from the weapons they’d carried. The […]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/IR3JN13nloA expand=1] Bertrand Piccard’s Selfie — © Solar Impulse | OneShot Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg accomplished a feat of aviation that few believed possible: the first Round-The-World flight, powered only by the sun, with no fuel or polluting emissions. The flight of Solar Impulse demonstrated not only that clean technologies are the future, […]
As life expectancy numbers rise, a growing number of seniors experience kodokushi (lonely death), as it’s known in Japan.
MUMBAI — On December 14, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) abruptly terminated its contract with the Indo-Malaysian consortium L&T-Scomi Engineering Bhd to manage the city’s monorail. The authority said that there had been issues such as poor maintenance of the monorail fleet, as many rakes were found unfit for use. This ended another chapter in the sorry saga of a transportation experiment that was doomed from its very inception. India’s first monorail was flagged off on February 1, 2014, with the hope that it would resolve Mumbai’s transport woes — or some of them, at least. The MMRDA […]
-Essay- The Moon’s cultural history is one of disenchantment. Thousands of years ago, people still believed that it was a deity, there were legends about beautiful Moon girls and a man in the Moon. But its proximity to Earth made the myths around it one of the first victims of the scientific worldview. Already in […]
“Why do we want to fit everyone in our narrative of what is civilized?…’
Bioplastic sounds like a welcome eco-alternative to the many plastic products we use daily. But the reality isn’t so simple.
Architects plan to restore one of the Argentine capital’s architectural gems, but with new co-working and co-living spaces that reflect the latest trends.
UNICEF France is ringing in 2019 with their greatest mission of all: ensuring every child grows up in the best conditions and has all the tools needed to build a future. And first on the list is “Hope.” Discover their animated Greeting Card — and New Year’s resolution — with this OneShot: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/0WYMdqgKiJQ expand=1] UNICEF France Welcomes 2019 — Jiro Ose/UNICEF/OneShot OneShot is a new digital format to tell the story of a single photograph in an immersive one-minute video. Follow OneShot:
Dubbed ‘the International,’ a young Egyptian computer programmer had built a program to scrape user data from Facebook. But the same practice is routinely done by the government and large corporations.
Less than two decades after divorce was legalized, Chileans have a relatively high rate of retying the knot with their exes.
These easy-to-build and ‘climate-change-proof’ homes are growing popular in places like Miami that are prone to hurricanes and flooding.
In Bogotá, a transgender girl and her family are, with their openness, helping similar people take their rightful place in society.
On January 10, 2016, two days after his 69th birthday and the release of his final album, Blackstar, the great David Bowie was gone. The shape-shifting rock icon behind songs such as “Space Oddity,” “Starman,” “Heroes’ and “Let’s Dance” was also a major creative force in film, fashion and technology, constantly pushing the boundaries of performance-based disciplines. Born David Robert Jones, his chameleon career is reflected in the many flamboyant alter egos he used over the years. We made this OneShot to mark his death and celebrate what would have been his 72nd birthday on January 8. Ashes to ashes […]
VW’s ‘hippie’ buses are more than just cult classics. They’re also valuable collectors items, especially the luxury Samba model, with its special roof windows and two-tone paint job.
Published 300 years ago, Daniel Defoe’s classic story of shipwreck and survival still has much to teach us about human nature and the environment.
Immigrants from Venezuela, Colombia and elsewhere in Latin America are making their presence felt in the Argentine capital, where more than a dozen salsotecas have opened in the past decade.
LE MONDE Monstrous Times Call For Monstrous Fiction: A French Manifesto Against the omnipotence of “reality-show novels’ and costume fiction, a group of young French authors want to reassert the novel as a contemporary art. SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG The Real Invisible Threat To Democracy: Poverty Even in economically powerful Germany, poverty threatens the social fabric. And […]
LE MONDE Full Translation Of French Anti-#MeToo Manifesto Signed By Catherine Deneuve Some 100 prominent French women artists and intellectuals have issued an open letter in Le Monde condemning the movement to call out inappropriate male behavior that erupted in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal. CLARIN Interview With A Recovering Hippie Named Paulo […]
-OpEd- PARIS — In the sometimes cacophonous concert of demands from France’s “yellow vests’ protest movement, one measure keeps coming back: the Référendum d’initiative citoyenne (RIC), or “Citizens’ Initiative Referendum,” which allows individual citizens to submit a legislative text to a popular vote, and to thus express their opinions in the ballot box rather than […]
There is a lot of planning behind the Christmas window decorations you find around the French capital, and keeping it traditional matters.
Towards the end of World War II, 800,000 German women and girls were deported to forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. A visit to the abandoned camps near the Russian-Finnish border.