Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"
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The Louvre museum and several other French cultural sites are increasing the price of entry for visitors from outside Europe. So-called "dual pricing" is quite common in less wealthy countries but rar...
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Hachette and Cengage allege Google bypassed licensing to train Gemini, calling it “historic copyright infringement.”...
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Big time football — like this month's college football championship — is the most dominant force in American culture. It won't always be that way, writer Chuck Klosterman argues in his new...
As AFCON 2025 heads towards a thrilling finale in Morocco, the host cities are buzzing with far more than football. In Casablanca and Rabat, art, culture and the passion of fans are turning the tourna...
People are taking to Instagram to reminisce 2016 in all its fishnet-stocking glory. Melodie Jeng/Getty Images 2016 is so back — at least on Instagram. Millennials are putting up pictures of them...
Italian designer headed his eponymous fashion empire for almost half a century...
After being inhabited only by Indigenous peoples for centuries, the Arctic island saw the Vikings in the 10th century and the Danes in 1721, and it attracted American interest back in 1867....
After being inhabited only by Indigenous peoples for centuries, the Arctic island saw the Vikings in the 10th century and the Danes in 1721, and it attracted US interest back in 1867....
Janie George spoke with Business Insider about how she's participating in the nostalgic economy. Elizabeth Jackson Janie George and her husband are introducing analog and retro items to their three ch...
Large crowds have visited Ueno Zoo in Tokyo to say farewell to two pandas that are about to go back to China. Their departure means Japan will be panda-less for the first time in half a century....
A McDonnell F-4S Phantom II in the Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider The Nat...
A jungle temple in Thailand hailed as a “hidden gem” has urged tourists to stop “inappropriate behaviour” after they were spotted doing gymnastics and wearing revealing clothing at the site. The Wat P...
Jack O'Connell in "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple." Sony In "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple," Jack O'Connell plays Sir Jimmy Crystal, a strange cult leader. The character and his fol...
Oni Press is starting off the new year strong with a new graphic novel called The Demon of Beausoleil. Even though it deals with demons and exorcism, this book is actually a surprisingly lighthearted ...
The author's grandmother lived to 99. Courtesy of Tracy Granzyk My grandmother lived to 99, and I got to know her better as an adult than I did as a child. I'm glad we spent that time together and tha...