Paris Is Burning. So Why Won’t Europeans Install A/C?It’s a choice that holds the weird secret of Europe’s reluctance to embrace air conditioning, a blend of culture, climate, architecture, regulation, and foreign policy that leaves some of the richest people on the planet sweating through their clothes for a few weeks each summer.
'The Netflix effect': Why Western women are heading to South Korea in search of loveAfter visiting eight hostels and interviewing 123 women, mostly from North America and Europe, Lee came to the conclusion that many had been drawn to the country by what she calls "the Netflix effect."
Sir Salman Rushdie: Satanic Verses author is on a ventilator and may lose eye after he was stabbed on stage, says agentThe Indian-born British author was being introduced to the audience ahead of giving a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution, when a man stormed the stage and began attacking him, according to witnesses.
Irish House Prices Hit 2007 Peak for First Time Since CrashIrish house prices rose to the highest since 2007 in June, matching the peak seen before the country suffered one of the worst property crashes in Western Europe.
Author Salman Rushdie attacked at western New York event, witness saysA man on the stage was seen "punching or stabbing" the novelist before the event, according to an AP reporter who witnessed the attack.
Suspected bank robber rescued in Rome after tunnel collapseA suspected bank robber has been rescued in Rome after the roof of a tunnel he had been digging collapsed. Italian carabinieri say the man was trapped and buried under six metres of earth for about eight hours on Thursday.
FBI searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home for classified nuclear weapons documents – reportSuspected presence of such documents could explain why US attorney general took step of ordering FBI agents into a former president’s house
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