Annual growth as high as 6.4% in the first quarter. Unemployment falling fast. The budget in surplus this year. Public debt heading to below 40% of GDP. How did the Swedes do […]
North star: The Swedish economy
Raw Intelligence Report: Conditions in Baghdad
Editor’s Note: What follows is raw insight from a STRATFOR source in Baghdad, Iraq. The following does not reflect STRATFOR’s view, but provides a perspective on the situation in Baghdad. After the […]
Breaking the silence on HIV in Egypt
Thirty-one-year-old Magid is tired of being silent. Diagnosed three years ago with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, Magid, a resident of Alexandria, Egypt, kept his health status a secret from most, […]
Catherine Deneuve, a trophy wife? Mais si!
François Ozon must be relieved, at 43, to have just about thrown off the “gay enfant terrible of French cinema” tag he wore around his neck 10 years ago. The other things […]
Murakami Slams Japan’s Nuclear Choice
When he’s good and ready, Haruki Murakami speaks his mind. While many other figures in Japan’s arts firmament have already offered their opinions in the three months since disasters befell the country […]
Astonishing pictures show how Japan is recovering just three months after tsunami
Interview with Brian Eno
As the pioneer of ambient music, Brian Eno’s experimental music style over the past three decades has made him one of the most influential producers and artists. From David Bowie to Coldplay […]
Interview with Martin Gore
Marc Spitz:As Depeche Mode’s primary songwriter, you spend a lot of time in the studio trying to perfect each piece of music. Isn’t the idea of a remix antithetical to that, since […]
Iran’s lady footballers: Let them play!
Football is the great global game: the closest thing we have to a connective cultural tissue that binds our species across national and cultural borders. But only in a world so upside […]
Chinese businessman takes horse to work to avoid traffic
He Yanqing, a successful property entrepreneur with a fleet of cars in his garage at home worth several hundred thousand pounds, said he’d opted for four legs over four wheels because of […]
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