OSTEND, Belgium (Reuters) – A beach in Belgium has been transformed into a giant sandy gallery, featuring larger-than-life super heroes, cartoon characters and Cinderella’s castle, for one of the world’s biggest sand-sculpture festivals.
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In 1961, the Francophile Mohammad Reza visited Paris to meet his favourite leader, General Charles de Gaulle of France. Mohammad Reza saw height as the measure of a man and a woman (the Shah had a marked preference for tall women) and the 6’5″ de Gaulle was his most admired leader. Mohammad Reza loved to be compared to his ...
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The most alluring things in life are often those that are off-limits. And as travellers, this means that we’re fascinated by places that we’re not allowed to visit.
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Murphy’s law is an adage or epigram that is typically stated as: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong”.
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Halimah Yacob (born 23 August 1954) is a Singaporean politician serving as President of Singapore since 2017. Previously a member of the governing People’s Action Party (PAP), she was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Jurong GRC (Bukit Batok East) from 2001 to 2015 and for Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC (Marsiling) from 2015 to 2017.
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