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Crowds in New Delhi watched giant effigies of demons go up in flames on Tuesday, as India marked Dussehra, the Hindu festival of good over evil. Fireworks lit the sky as the figures of Ravana, his son Meghnad and his brother Kumbhakarna burned. In Hindu tradition, the ritual recalls the defeat of Ravana by the god Rama. Actors dressed as Rama and his brother staged the final moments of the battle. The prime minister joined the spectators at a ground in the city and shot an arrow from a bow. Hindus observe nine days of ceremonies, rituals and fasts, which…
By Nina Borowski & AFP Published on 21/10/2026 – 20:02 GMT+2•Updated 20:06 Images of the riots in France, broadcast around the world, are alarming tourism professionals. The first consequences are already being felt in hotel bookings, and those in the sector fear the situation will worsen if the violence continues. “This surge in violence in city centres, in Nice, Paris and Lyon, is catastrophic”, laments Christelle Cassagne, head of ADN Tourisme, a federation that brings together France’s institutional tourism bodies. “When you book a hotel for a week, it is not to stay shut away in your room”, she adds. Tourists hesitant to…
When you enter the room it is dark. Only a few light spots, fluffy carpet and an amazing sound. One corner belongs to Nina Simone. She sings acapella, separated from her daughter’s friend, David Bowie, who responds to her with the same words of the same song from another corner. It is almost like listening to your own family as we all know Simone and Bowie’s voices so well. They share something special with visitors. Two voices, one emotion. Love. But this duet never happened. Be present and receive The Oscar-winning filmmaker and artist Steve McQueen heard Wild is the…
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Published on 21/10/2026 – 18:44 GMT+2•Updated 18:50 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that halting the fighting along the current front line is the most realistic route to ending the war with Russia, opening the way to ceasefire talks. “Right now we have to freeze, and I think this is (the) real way to end this war. We call it ceasefire… freeze and stop,” Zelenskyy told US broadcaster Fox News’s “Fox and Friends” programme on Wednesday. He was asked whether he would accept a deal that fixed the front along its current lines. His comments came as US special envoy…
L’institution ouvre ses portes aux modèles développés par OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic et Mistral, dans le but de maîtriser l’utilisation croissante de cette technologie par les parlementaires et leurs assistants. Jul 20 6 mins read
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Published on 21/10/2026 – 16:59 GMT+2 What can a piece of fabric tell us about where we come from, where we have been and where we are going? At this year’s Frieze London, considered one of the world’s most influential contemporary art fairs, Kazakh-born, Berlin-based artist Gulnur Mukazhanova explored these questions through a series of textile artworks that brought together centuries of cultural history. Presented in collaboration with Turkish Airlines, Bosağa: Journeys Across Cultures and Time features a triptych from her ongoing Bosağa series which she began in 2021. The title comes from a word shared by Kazakh and other…
Water UK Chief Executive David Henderson urged the government to move ahead with reforms suggested last year by former Bank of England Deputy Governor Jon Cunliffe, before ministers decide the overall path of how the sector is owned. The Cunliffe report “was given to the government 15 months ago and the credit rating agencies are watching,” Henderson told POLITICO. “If the government doesn’t pretty soon decide what it wants to do with that report, then we risk a downgrade, as Moody’s has indicated. And if there’s a downgrade, that would sadly see £40 being added to every single water bill…
Published on 21/10/2026 – 16:53 GMT+2•Updated 17:06 The current El Nino could reach a strength never seen in modern records, United Nations officials warned on Wednesday, calling on governments to act now to limit the damage. “The current El Nino event could be unprecedented in strength. Literally off the monitoring charts that we have used for the past four decades,” Celeste Saulo, secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), told reporters in Geneva. “El Nino will peak towards the end of 2026, but its impacts will be felt long after that,” she added. According to the WMO’s latest global seasonal…