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Veeraswamy, Britain’s oldest surviving Indian restaurant, is facing an uncertain future less than a year before its 100th anniversary. Since opening on Regent Street in 1926, the restaurant has operated continuously...
When Nazi Germany occupied Denmark in April 1940, Greenland was effectively cut off from Copenhagen and gained strategic importance across the North Atlantic. The United States moved in during the war, building bases...
Italy’s cuisine, long celebrated worldwide, has cleared a preliminary UNESCO assessment and is now awaiting a final decision expected Wednesday at a UNESCO meeting in India. The nomination, launched in March 2023 by the...
The woman who died after being left near the summit of Austria’s highest peak has been identified as 33-year-old Kerstin Gurtner, authorities and reports say. Gurtner died on January 19 less than 150 feet below the...
VERSAILLES, France — A long-lost panel by Peter Paul Rubens, hidden for more than four centuries, fetched 2.3 million euros ($2.7 million) at a Versailles auction Sunday. The recently rediscovered work, found in a...
I recently attended Kilkenomics in Kilkenny, where comedians and economists share the stage. It’s entertaining and sharp, and because I’m American I sat on a couple of panels about the United States. Early on the jokes...
