We’re just not ready to be Swedes, Dave
BY The Telegraph | PHOTO The Telegraph
PUBLISHED 10:32, February 22, 2012
David Cameron may want to copy Sweden’s ample child care benefits to get more women into top jobs, but that wouldn’t work in Britain. Earlier this month, David Cameron posed on the edge of the Baltic Sea in wintry Stockholm and wondered what Britain could learn from countries like Sweden to promote the number of British women in top jobs. As an expat on my second maternity leave in Sweden, I admire Cameron’s ambitions but question whether Britain is ready for the huge cultural... [Full article]
The day the family car died
BY Irish Times
PUBLISHED 10:39, February 22, 2012
When did family cars stop being for families? When did the kind of car that we all grew up rattling about in the back of stop being big enough? When we were children (all fields round here, etc) our parents had ordinary cars. Cortinas, Sierras, Escorts, Golfs, Carinas. And they were plenty spacious enough. My wife remembers a time when her mum carried around a... [Full article]
Madrid’s Prado puts Mona Lisa’s “twin” on display
BY Reuters | PHOTO Reuters/Sergio Perez
PUBLISHED 10:48, February 22, 2012
Madrid’s Prado museum has put a contemporary copy of Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” on display just weeks after rocking the art world with revelations about its provenance. The Prado presented the completed restoration of a work on Tuesday that it has concluded was a... [Full article]
Viewing the guts of the Earth from outer space
BY Deutsche Welle
PUBLISHED 10:53, February 22, 2012
Three German-built satellites will examine the Earth’s little-known magnetic field. The research should deliver precise data that will help in predicting space weather, and tell us whether the poles are shifting. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Swarm mission will soon launch three satellites into space. Built in Germany, the satellites will research the earth’s magnetic field, which acts as an... [Full article]
Adele and Ed Sheeran top Brit Awards
BY Euronews | PHOTO Euronews
PUBLISHED 10:59, February 22, 2012
It was a case of deja vu at the Brit Awards in London. A week after picking up six Grammys, soul singer Adele triumphed with two more on home turf: winning the prize for best British female artist and best British album. The awards were hardly a surprise: her album... [Full article]
Italian fashion designers look to China for salvation
BY France 24
PUBLISHED 10:56, February 22, 2012
Italy’s top designer brands are looking to China for salvation this year with revenues falling due to a debt crisis that has cast an air of gloom as Milan Fashion Week kicks off on Wednesday. With Italians hurting from budget austerity and fears that an debt-laden Rome could follow Athens into the mire, the National Chamber of Fashion said... [Full article]
Street food: hot dog to haute dog
BY The Guardian | PHOTO Alamy
PUBLISHED 11:08, February 22, 2012
There’s something inherently funny about hot dogs. Sellers like to give them silly names, whether it’s The Notorious P I G, The Snoop Dog, or the Hot, Diggety Dog. But it’s time to take hot dogs seriously. With Wieners on the menu at The Delaunay, and Franks on the menu at Mishkins, times are changing. Welcome to the world of the “haute dog”. When John Candy’s character ordered hot dogs in The Great Outdoors, Dan Aykroyd’s character laughed. “You know what they’re made of, Chet?” he asked. “Lips and assholes.”... [Full article]
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Introducing leisure ski-free ski holidays
BY Times of Malta | PUBLISHED 09:06, February 21, 2012
Spas, food and nature treks are alternative attractions for tourists at mountain resorts. Rising with the lark... [Full article]
App helps blind to send text messages
BY BBC News | PUBLISHED 09:03, February 21, 2012
New technology to help blind people text using touchscreen mobile devices has been developed. Researchers at Georgia Tech... [Full article]
Prize bull Fabio sells for record breaking £126,000 at auction
BY The Telegraph | PUBLISHED 09:01, February 21, 2012
A prize bull called Fabio set a new world record when it was sold at auction for... [Full article]
Swiss pilot to undergo 3-day solar flight simulation
BY France 24 | PUBLISHED 08:58, February 21, 2012
Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg will undergo a three-day simulated flight for a new Solar Impulse aircraft that can... [Full article]
For the Love of Books: A Sarajevo Story – in pictures
BY The Guardian | PUBLISHED 08:55, February 21, 2012
During the Bosnian war, a group of men and women risked their lives to rescue thousands of... [Full article]
What the Tweeters are giving up for Lent (and no it’s not Twitter)
BY Irish Times | PUBLISHED 08:52, February 21, 2012
We conducted a Twitter vox pop (filtering out the many responses of people completely apathetic to the idea... [Full article]
Fifty years after Glenn flight, U.S. buying rides to space
BY Reuters | PUBLISHED 08:48, February 21, 2012
Fifty years after John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth, NASA no longer has the... [Full article]
Take the big trip
BY Irish Times | PUBLISHED 09:16, February 20, 2012
Take a train across India or sail around the world, ride a motorbike across Vietnam or conquer... [Full article]
Judi Dench: ‘All I ever wanted was to be employed’
BY The Telegraph | PUBLISHED 09:12, February 20, 2012
In 54 years as an actress, Judi Dench has tackled just about every role going, from Ophelia in... [Full article]
Stella’s surreal dinner theater wows London fashionistas
BY Reuters | PUBLISHED 09:10, February 20, 2012
Fashion celebrities were enthralled with British designer Stella McCartney’s mixture of magic and illusion, as she eschewed... [Full article]