He died so that we might eat cheese. Historians often trace the dawn of human civilisation back 10,000 years, when Neolithic tribes first settled and began farming in the Fertile Crescent, which stretches through much of what we now call the Middle…

PATRICK KOVARIK via Getty Images Macron "bouleversé" par "Les Miserables"? "De la merde" pour l’actrice Jeanne Balibar, qui étrille sa politique POLITIQUE – “Pourquoi considérer que c’est révolutionnaire alors que c’est juste une politique sensée?” C’est un réquisitoire en règle que livre…

(Reuters) – Three people were killed by a shooter on Friday at Naval Air Station Pensacola, a major U.S. Navy base in Florida, before sheriff’s deputies fatally shot the shooter, authorities said, the second deadly shooting at a U.S. military installation this…

Google may be working on a cool feature that’ll make your walking commute a bit safer: A new "lighting" layer in Google Maps that highlights brightly lit streets when traveling on foot. This is according to XDA Developers , whose experts dug…

Pollution vu depuis la tour oxygène © Tim Douet Le pic de pollution aux particules fines se poursuit à Lyon. La vigilance rouge est activée. La concentration de particules fines se fait plus forte sur la métropole de Lyon. Selon Atmo-Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, "…

Lexi Magnusson embellished her front-lawn bushes with Pride flag-themed Christmas lights. (reddit) ‘Tis the season for battling homophobia, as one woman in the US found out when she fought against her anti-gay neighbours in a pretty lit way during Christmas. In a…

Golshifteh Farahani lors du Festival de Marrakech 2019. Lors d’une rencontre organisée à Marrakech, l’actrice iranienne Golshifteh Farahani dénonce le massacre commis sur son peuple en Iran. Première actrice iranienne à jouer à Hollywood depuis la révolution de 1979, Golshifteh Farahani déplore…

Aujourd’hui c’est la Journée internationale de commémoration et d’action contre la violence faite aux femmes. Il y a 30 ans, 14 femmes étaient assassinées durant l’attentat antiféministe à Polytechnique uniquement parce qu’elles étaient des femmes. Souvenons-nous de chacune de ces femmes. La…

The election results sparked widespread protests in Bolivia An independent international audit of Bolivia’s disputed election in October has detailed "deliberate" and "malicious" efforts to rig the vote in favour of then-President Evo Morales. The Organization of American States (OAS) said the…

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced that it will reauthorize the use of sodium cyanide in wildlife-killing devices known as M-44s, or "cyanide bombs." The devices are designed to kill certain animals for predator control purposes. They use a smelly bait…