Culture & Society

Elisabeth Moss defends Scientology after fan compares it to Gilead   Actor, who was raised a Scientologist, denies that the movement is similar to the fictional regime in The Handmaid’s Tale. Elisabeth Moss has defended Scientology after...

Del Toro's 'The Shape of Water' wins Golden Lion at Venice   Guillermo del Toro's beat contenders including George Clooney's "Suburbicon" and Alexander Payne's "Downsizing." Guillermo del Toro's monster thriller 'The Shape of Water' has won the...

Industrial meat production is killing our seas. It's time to change our diets Callum Roberts   Every spring, as the snows thaw, water rushes down the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, spreading life, then death into the...

The house that Tateh built ... out of sand-filled plastic bottles Pablo Mediavilla Costa in Tindouf, Algeria   In the Sahrawi refugee camps in the Algerian desert, Tateh Lehbib Braica – aka ‘the crazy bottle guy’ –...

Israel's relentless war on EU humanitarian aid to Palestine Ylenia Gostoli   Women from the Palestinian village of Jubbet adh Dhib are fighting for basic amenities like electricity. Their struggle is part of a bigger tug-of-war, between...

Three babies abandoned across Berlin in recent years are sisters   Police in the German capital are now hunting for the girls' mother amid fears that she might become pregnant again. Image: The first baby was found...

Elton John Announces 300-Stop Farewell Tour, Retirement   Elton John announces he will retire after embarking on one final three-year, 300-stop world tour, “The Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour”.   https://youtu.be/tvvCmO-s3wo ET Canada -  24 Ιαν 2018   Source: YouYube

'Proud to be Mexican': Meet the baby whose huge image gazes over the border Rory Carroll in Tecate, Mexico   The art installation emerged last week near Tecate, highlighting controversy over Trump’s proposed wall – but Kikito’s...