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This winter staple is a serious superfood, especially when it comes to immunity—which is important to support year-round, but particularly during cold and flu season. Beets of all shades are loaded with vitamin C, zinc, and other nutrients known for bolstering the immune system, and they’re high in anthocyanins and beta-carotene, pigment-lending compounds with powerful antioxidant properties. And don’t discard those stems and leaves: They are a bonus source of nourishment and are particularly rich in vitamins A and K as well as calcium and potassium. Prevention BRAIN HEALTH A New Dementia Risk Having a psychotic disorder such as schizophrenia could make someone two and a half times as likely to develop dementia down the line compared with a person without one, says a meta-analysis in Psychological Medicine. The largest review to examine…

A large batch of leaked classified US government information, including top-secret briefings, were discovered online this month, with many relating to perhaps the most sensitive arena of intelligence gathering in the world today – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. What do they say? The most significant parts of the leak concern Kyiv’s level of preparedness for an expected counteroffensive, but there are plenty of lines about other countries’ involvement in the conflict that may cause serious diplomatic difficulties. Here are some of the revelations so far. Ukraine: US intelligence officials were pessimistic in February, saying Kyiv could fall “well short” of recapturing territory seized by Russia. There are also details of serious shortages of air defence and a risk of running out of anti-aircraft missiles completely by May. Russia: The leaks suggest the US has…

Having cleaned up at the Baftas, All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the favourites to win best picture at the Oscars this month. That’s an exciting development for Edward Berger, who directed and co-wrote the film, but German critics may not be so thrilled. As Philip Oltermann noted in the Guardian, reviewers from Berger’s homeland have slated his first world war epic, with one key objection being that it strays so far from the source novel by Erich Maria Remarque. “One wonders whether Berger has even read Remarque’s novel,” said Hubert Wetzel in Süddeutsche Zeitung. “If the characters in the film didn’t have the same names as those in the book, it would be difficult to find significant parallels between the two works.” He’s absolutely right. Along with…

THE VILLAGE OF Sant Feliu Sasserra perches on a hilltop in a pine-forested region of Catalonia. Fifty-three miles north of Barcelona, the place retains a medieval atmosphere, with a tenth-century church in the plaza and cobblestone alleys lined by old sandstone-block houses. A plain, three-story edifice with a pair of Spanish flags draped from the top-floor windows serves as the ajuntament, or town hall. I’ve come to this quiet village of 600 people because of a major reckoning with history that has made headlines across Europe—a vote by the Catalan Parliament to apologize for the more than 700 “witches” condemned in the region over three centuries beginning in 1424, when Catalonia enacted Europe’s first law prohibiting witchcraft. Catalonia was a center of witchcraft trials in Europe for more than 300 years;…

FROM WIRED Hello?Someone has access to your bank accounts through Amazon, and they can take all your money. I'm calling to help. ONE DECEMBER MORNING, my mother's phone rang. She tugged the iPhone from the holster she kept clipped to the waist of her jeans and wondered who might be calling. Perhaps someone from church was checking in on her recovery from the coronavirus. “Hello?” she said. The voice that greeted her sounded concerned. “Someone has access to your bank accounts through Amazon, and they can take all your money,” he told her. “I'm calling to help.” Her mind raced. Oh Lord, she prayed silently. Oh Lord, give me strength. The voice was warm and reassuring, and my mom tried to focus closely on his words. My dad was driving to work, and she…

Home truths Women get the raw deal with housework when it comes to working from home, two related studies have found. Psychologists monitored dual-earner heterosexual couples in Korea and China, and found each partner completed more family-related tasks when they both worked from home. However, when women worked from home, but men were at the office, the men did fewer tasks. Meanwhile, when the men worked from home and the women were in the office, the women kept up their share of the work. The women also not only had a greater share of the chores but also a greater share of the guilt: in both studies, women felt worse about their relative contribution when they did more work in the office – whereas men only expressed that in one of the two studies. Keeping…

The Hyundai N Vision 74 is the hottest concept car of the decade, and not just because its Tokyo Drift–meets-1980s-box-fenders visuals blew up everyone’s phones when the first images appeared a few months ago. No, the N Vision 74 is much more than stunning eye candy confected under the direction of Hyundai design chief SangYup Lee. This fully functioning, fully drivable concept teases Hyundai’s vision of the future for 21st century performance cars. And it’s totally production feasible. That’s right. Instead of the usual concept car mix of vaporware and unobtanium under the skin, the N Vision 74 uses hardware and technologies you’ll find in existing Hyundai production vehicles. What’s more, Hyundai N brand sources hint that if enough people want one, senior management might well be persuaded to produce a street-legal…

As Vélina Élysée Charlier ventured on to the streets of her conflict-stricken city last week, she encountered scenes that will haunt her for years. Armed civilians dragging bodies through the streets. Smouldering corpses. Young men with machetes chasing suspected gangsters they planned to kill. “I’ve seen enough dead people for many lifetimes,” said the Haitian human rights activist. “It’s kill, burn, kill, burn … It’s nothing I would want anyone else to witness.” The nightmarish events unfolding in Haiti’s coastal capital, Portau-Prince, began before dawn last Monday when members of one of its notorious gangs reportedly tried to seize control of the Turgeau district. “What they didn’t count on was the population striking back,” said Charlier, who works in the neighbourhood. Civilians brandishing knives, rocks and handguns rose up against the heavily armed criminals…

Dawn did not break over wartime Kyiv on Orthodox Easter Day. It was more that the darkness gradually paled, leaving the pinnacle of the 18th-century bell tower wreathed in a wan mist. Soon after 5.30am, the faithful began to trickle into Dormition Cathedral, which stands at the heart of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, or Monastery of the Caves. Families carried wicker baskets, covered with hand-embroidered cloths and filled with sweet Easter bread, eggs dyed with onion skins, salt and meat. Members of the congregation lit candles; the great golden candelabra in front of the iconostasis was soon bristling with flames. Easter has been celebrated on this spot since the 11th century, when monks from Mount Athos first hollowed out the rocky hillside to form their cells and shrines, establishing the lavra as…

The National Retail Federation, an industry trade group, estimates that U.S.consumer spending will grow somewhere between 6 percent and 8 percent this year, to $4.86 trillion. According to the most recent data from the U.S. Commerce Department, about 14.5 percent of that spending happens online. To point our readers to the Best Online Shops 2023, Newsweek has once again paired with respected global data-research firm Statista. We’ve ranked retailers according to numerous criteria important to shoppers, among them usability, security and how likely consumers said they were to make a purchase at a particular online shop. This year our rankings recognize 1,000 shops across 39 categories. “Single-Brand Fashion” is the largest category this year with 80 shops recognized in the list. We found that the multiproduct retailers we defined as…

DID YOU KNOW? No trace of Babylon’s famous ‘hanging gardens’ remains; some experts believe they were in Nineveh instead Mesopotamia was home to some of the very first cities in existence, leading many to link it to the birth of true civilisation. The origin of these cities is still unknown today, although many theories exist. One suggestion is that the development and building of temples created a place where people would gather, and thus served as points of contact between different groups of people. Others believe that people sought sanctuary from natural disasters. As the Mesopotamians were able to develop technology to help them control the nearby rivers, such as levees, they could ensure a good crop. They had no need to be nomadic, and were able to settle in one place…

As I set out on an architectural tour of Dundee, my home for the past 20-something years, I secretly believe I’ve seen it all before: Frank Gehry’s Maggie’s Centre; the V&A museum designed by Kengo Kuma; the art college’s James Paul-designed Brutalist building; Robert Lutyens’ Art Deco M&S; and all the tenements and tower blocks in between. Within the first five minutes, however, I’ve uttered half a dozen “gosh-I’venever-noticed-that-befores.” It seems that familiarity hasn’t bred contempt, exactly, but a lackadaisical approach to looking - really looking - at my surroundings. The beauty of a local tour, I quickly realise, is that there is no pressure. Everything will still be here tomorrow, and so, all being well, will I. There’s no need to cram over four centuries of architectural history into one day…

While Thanksgivingis an American (and Canadian, Grenadian and Liberian, among others) tradition, it comes with all the generosity and joy that we can embrace as our own. What was originally a celebration of the harvest is now a great opportunity to gather friends and family, before the year speeds up to its festive finale. The best excuse to appreciate and share good food, without the expectations that come with Christmas, and it's fun to take a seasonal British approach to classic recipes. If the weather is kind, begin your evening under the stars, huddled next to a fire, with a homemade aperitif and mugs of warming soup, before heading inside for a cosy dinner and a double helping of pudding. MENU Spiced pear syrup Celery soup with toasty toppings Roast chicken and winter salad Stateside salsa…

“TOUTED BY BERETTA AS THE FINEST UPLAND BIRD-HUNTING GROUND IN AMERICA” In the middle of Rhode Island, the smallest state in the union, serial entrepreneur, car collector, and conservationist Paul Mihailides has created something everyone said would never work: a nearly 4,000-acre private club dedicated to the outdoors lifestyle, with an emphasis on shooting sports. The Preserve Sporting Club & Residences, located in Richmond, about 30 minutes west of Newport, is a year-round enclave with an incredible array of offerings: clay shooting, upland bird hunting, a firearms range, tactical weapons training, fly-fishing ponds, an equestrian center, 18-hole golf course, off-road driving course, safari tents, a 50,000-square-foot sporting shop with a fine gun room, a five-star luxury lodge, a world-class restaurant from famed chef David Burke, a spa, swimming pool, tennis courts,…

LABOUR Diane Abbott suspended in new antisemitism storm Labour sought to head off a new antisemitism storm by suspending the party whip from Diane Abbott, after the former shadow home secretary played down suggestions of racism against Jewish people. In comments that were swiftly condemned by senior politicians and faith groups, the MP argued that minority groups – such as Jewish people and Irish, Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people – faced similar levels of prejudice to people with red hair. Hours after her remarks about how “white people with points of difference” are discriminated against in society were published, Abbott apologised and claimed an “initial draft” of her thoughts had been sent for publication by accident. She still faced swift action by Labour whips who suspended the party whip and launched an investigation. She…

My first contact with the vagina was by way of a remote viewing. A mate excitedly explained that he had found a stash of discarded “nudie books” in a ditch proximate to a local lorry park. Aged twelve, my curiosity coupled with pulsing pre-pubescent itches made the thought of seeing a naked woman too much of a magnetic pull to refuse, and the location was near to a stream where we could skim stones too – so overall it was a win-win situation! Opening the well-thumbed educational publication, my eyes were initially drawn to the gorgeous breasts pointing forward with conviction and purpose. But what made my shorts slightly more uncomfortable was my reaction to the downstairs region. The pull of the vagina was Newton-like, and as the gravitational power pulled…

1 Match the cut to the correct photo. Julienne Chiffonade Mince Dice A. B. C. D. 2 Which of these fats has the highest smoke point? A. Butter B. Canola oil C. Clarified butter D. Extra-virgin olive oil 3 What’s the difference between stock and broth? A. Stock is made from bones; broth is made from meat. B. Stock is made from meat; broth is made from bones. C. Stock is salted; broth is unsalted. D. Stock is made with mirepoix; broth is not. 4 Which of these measurements does not accurately describe a standard stick of butter? A. 8 tablespoons B. 4 ounces C. ¼ cup D. ½ cup 5 What does it mean to blanch something? A. To slowly cook it in simmering liquid B. To cook it briefly in boiling liquid C. To run it under cold water D. To deep-fry it 6 Which of the following could cause melted chocolate to seize? A. Overheating it B. Adding…

In December 2021, acute abdominal pain struck Krystal Sital. At the nearest hospital—overloaded with COVID-19 patients and a stressed staff—a resident physician repeatedly tried to convince Krystal that she had a UTI. But she’d had those before; she knew it wasn’t that and tried telling the doctor so. HE SEEMED IMMOVABLE. +++ FINALLY, KRYSTAL CALLED HER PERSONAL PHYSICIAN, who intervened by calling the hospital. New tests found an enormous cyst requiring immediate surgical removal. If Krystal had listened to the physician and gone home, a traumatic event or perhaps even death might have followed. “I’m terrified for women who don’t have insurance or a good doctor who can advocate for them,” she says. Krystal, a New Jersey–based writer, had learned the hard way how to advocate for herself. Around four years earlier,…

ELDERFLOWER GIN AND TONIC Elderflower brings a subtle summer sweetness to the crispness of a G&T. Floral and fragrant, it pairs perfectly with cucumber, lemon and your favourite gin – from dry to pink and even peppery! Recipe on page 172 ASIAN-STYLE PRAWN SLIDERS If you love to kick off your Christmas meal with a prawn starter, these scrumptious sliders are a little tangy, a little zingy and a lot tasty. Plus, they take just minutes to make! Recipe on page 172 POTATO ROSTI CHRISTMAS TREE Get creative with your finger food and make tarts with potato instead of pastry. A rosti is generally a small fried flat cake, but here it’s a mini baked tart shell you fill with crème fraîche and smoked salmon or tomato relish and prosciutto. Yum! Recipe on page 172 WHITE SANGRIA Pop your favourite…

For all the latest news, visit countrylife.co.uk WINTER has been been unbelievably slow to arrive this year, but it surely is coming and with it the need to turn on the heating. Those whose lives revolve around heritage buildings are considering their options carefully. Last week, the National Trust told COUNTRY LIFE that it will not be closing its properties this winter, despite the cost-of-living crisis. ‘The two big impacts this winter will be energy and inflation, particularly the inflation of the cost of materials and repairs,’ says Andy Beer, director of operations and consultancy. ‘We are accelerating our investment in energy-saving measures and encouraging our teams to be assiduous in keeping costs down, but we want to stay open. What we are not going to do is close anywhere because…

LADY FIONA HERBERT, the eighth Countess of Carnarvon, turns the folio pages of a leatherbound guest book, pointing out the signatures of illustrious visitors who frequented her famous home a century ago. We are high in Highclere Castle, the grand country estate some 50 miles west of London that in recent years became the setting for the popular period drama Downton Abbey. Now every table, chair, and much of the floor in Lady Carnarvon’s small study is stacked with books and original documents from the 1920s: letters, diaries, and yellowed photographs mounted in albums or rolled up like ancient papyrus scrolls. The guest register contains the cast of characters for a book Lady Carnarvon is writing about her husband’s forebear, George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, the fifth Earl of Carnarvon.…

1 UKRAINE New positions may signal start of spring offensive Ukraine’s military has set up positions on the eastern side of the Dnipro River, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) cited Russian military bloggers as saying. Infiltrating the area could be a first step towards trying to dislodge Russian forces from positions they are using to shell and shoot at Kherson (below), which was liberated from occupation in November. Ukrainian military forays across the river could also mark the first steps towards launching a spring offensive. “This is the first time ISW has observed reliable geolocated imagery of Ukrainian positions on the east bank along with multi-sourced Russian reports of an enduring Ukrainian presence there,” the thinktank said. The Russian bloggers reported Ukrainian forces had established stable supply lines and “regularly…

At kerbside tables, down shadowy alleys and in underground arcades, coffee in Chile’s capital is still served con piernas – with legs. Waitresses in short skirts and high heels serve coffee at the joints that form part of a curious, anachronistic hangover from the 1980s. In the exotically named cafes, the staff – who are nearly all migrants from other countries – wear swimwear. “It’s odd that these places, which objectify women, exist today in the centre of a city like Santiago,” said Amanda Bruna, a teacher from Santiago. “But women have to work, and where there aren’t other opportunities, they will always take these jobs.” Marcela Hurtado, an academic at Chile’s Austral University who has researched the cafes extensively, said: “These places often operate on the margins of the law, and…

Let’s get out there. There’s a very effective slim-down tool that’s available to most of us for free: walking. And that’s good news, because losing weight can be hard. It it weren’t, we wouldn’t be inundated with ads for fad diets and “magic” supplements. More good news: Walking provides loads of health benefits even if you’re not trying to slim down. Follow these tips from top fitness pros and you may lower your blood pressure, improve your glucose control, sleep better, and boost your mood in the process. 1|WALK EVERY DAY “Consistency is key,” says Michele Stanten, a certified fitness instructor and the author of several books including Walk Off Weight. She recommends daily jaunts: Do a fast walk one day, a moderate walk the next, and once a week a leisurely longer…

SPOTLIGHT ON… Setting History Ablaze The first candle from fireplace specialist Jamb captures the scent of an English country house. Notes of amber, smoke, frankincense, precious woods and black pepper evoke the warm fragrance of a log fire burning in a room full of books, antique furniture and tapestries. Jamb founders Will Fisher and Charlotte Freemantle collaborated with designers Austin Moro and Eliza Dabron from London fragrance house Moro Dabron. Inspired by a Bronze Age nave in the British Museum, the vessel was cast using the ancient lost-wax process and handpatinated using a painstaking process honed at Jamb’s workshops in London, resulting in a unique, richly textured, verdigris surface that replicates the appearance of ancient Roman bronzes, salvaged from the sea bed after thousands of years. jamb.co.uk; moro-dabron.com Fashioned Fluidity Deborah Brett’s debut ceramics collection Working with…

Recently, while chatting to my eighty-nine-year-old mother, she triggered me by stating that there were no gay people when she was young. She used the word ‘queers’, and I knew that was a carry-over from when that was a derogatory term. We get on very well, but her views are still stuck in a very narrow-minded past. That got me thinking: were there ever any openly gay leaders in human history? Of course, we all know of Alexander the Great, but were there any others? How did the people of their time relate to them? Young people growing up today have something I never did – openly gay public figures. Make no mistake, we still have a very long way to go, but we are getting there. In many ancient cultures, gay people…

AROUND 150 YEARS AGO, a father and daughter held hands in the fierce glare of a Pennsylvania steel mill: a grizzled older man and his dark-eyed daughter, their faces lit by smoldering ore. Few knew what the pair were doing there, but 12-year-old Florence Kelley understood. Her papa, Congressman William Darrah “Pig Iron” Kelley, was instructing her in the family business. Together, they would fight for working people, including the laborers doing this dangerous job. It would be a long-term project, he explained: His generation would “build up great industries in America,” and hers would fight to “see that their product is distributed justly.” American history has plenty of political father-son duos—the Adamses and Bushes come to mind—but the Kelleys are something rarer. From the 1830s to the 1930s, Will and…

The urge to leap into forward planning can be strong in the quieter post-Christmas days and weeks with a new journal in hand and an empty year ahead to fill with ideas, goals and ambitions. However, while there’s no harm in planning, it could be wise to pause first and allow yourself some time for quiet contemplation. For when we turn down the noise and clear some mental space, we give our minds the chance to wander and, according to the experts, that’s when the creative thinking happens and our deepest, most intuitive thoughts and ideas come to the surface. While you might like the idea of doing nothing, you probably don’t do it very often, if at all. We live in a world where busy is considered better, we work…

EXCERPTED FROM THE BOOK SIEGE: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY OFFICER DANIEL HODGES ducked into the relative safety of a hallway just inside the U.S. Capitol Building to collect himself. Since arriving at the Capitol with his unit at 2:01 p.m., he'd been cursed at and punched by angry rioters trying to gain entry. One had even tried to gouge out his right eye. Still, he didn't rest long. Hodges, 32, of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department, took a deep breath, then answered a call for reinforcements. He walked down a white corridor. Cries and shouts of combat rising from behind the double doors at the end, which led to the lower west terrace tunnel, guided him to where he was needed. On the other side of the doors, smoke and chemical residue…

1 UNITED STATES Fox-Dominion trial delayed amid settlement reports The trial in the closely watched $1.6bn defamation lawsuit between Dominion Voting Systems and Fox was due to begin on Tuesday this week, a day later than scheduled, the judge overseeing the case announced amid reports of settlement talks. Eric Davis, the Delaware superior court judge overseeing the case, did not say why the trial was being delayed. The Wall Street Journal reported that Fox had made a late push to settle the case out of court. A settlement could theoretically come at any time. Dominion is asking a Delaware jury to award damages because it says Fox knowingly or recklessly disregarded the truth when it broadcast outlandish lies about its voting equipment. Dominion’s case, experts say, is strong. Dominion has produced a trove of internal…

JEREMY BOREING HAD NEVER PLANNED to get into the razor business. That changed in March when online shaving gear seller Harry’s yanked its ads from his conservative news site over what it called “inexcusable” views and a “values misalignment” relating to the LGBTQ+ community. The Daily Wire CEO launched his own line of razors in March under the Jeremy’s Razors brand—selling products remarkably similar to those of Harry’s. “They left us for saying boys are boys and girls are girls,” complained Boreing, whose news site is known for its podcasts with conservative commentator Ben Shapiro. The battle of the razors is the latest in a growing war against “woke business” by conservatives who are starting their own companies or investment funds, using activist shareholder tactics and drafting legislation to target firms espousing liberal…

Apple’s latest iPad Pro is a high-end tablet targeted toward professional users. For the most part, it’s the same tablet that was released in 2021, but it has a couple of key new features. Over the following pages, we’ll take a look at how the iPad Pro (M2) compares to what it replaced, the iPad Pro (M1). DESIGN Apple didn’t change anything about the iPad Pro’s construction with the 2022 update. The company still offers two sizes: 11-and 12.9 inches. The 2022 and 2021 iPad Pros have the exact same dimensions, the same bezels, the same buttons, speakers, and microphone, and the same Silver and Space Gray colour options. As with the old model, the iPad Pro does not support Touch ID in the power button. Instead, it is the only iPad to…

For years, I’ve assumed that most people don’t need third-party antivirus tools and have passed this suggestion along to others. After all, Microsoft’s Windows Security suite, also known as Windows Defender or Microsoft Defender, provides built-in virus protection for your PC, and it’s free. I’ve been using it for years, and the last time I can recall having virus problems on my PC was well over a decade ago. And yet, looking around for confirmation of this long-held belief quickly turns up an alternate universe, full of experts who insist that everyone should be paying for antivirus software. This advice comes not just from the companies that sell antivirus suites, but from reputable sites that perform antivirus software reviews (PCWorld included). On top of that, nearly every laptop I’ve reviewed for PCWorld…

May 1964: “There’s no doubt in our minds that this latest personal sporty car from Ford will sell like proverbial hotcakes.” Those were the first words of our first review of the first Ford Mustang, which we called “a fancy filly for fun-loving folks.” (Forgive us; it was the ’60s.) Our afflictive affection for agonizing alliteration aside, we guessed right. Ford hoped to move 100,000 Mustangs in the first year of sales; customers bought four times as many. Within two years, Ford sold a million. The Mustang became a genuine American icon—and we say this with acute awareness the word “icon” is grossly overused in this business—a status it has maintained, for better or worse, for some six decades. Did we know we were witnessing the birth of a legend? Perhaps not.…

PRACTICE FOR A WORLD AT RISK It’s the concept of “other” that drives the evils the world suffers from, says ROSHI JOAN HALIFAX. The contemplation we need now is that in reality there is no separation. AS I WITNESS all that is happening today—armed conflict in the heart of Europe, global pandemic, rising authoritarianism, impending climate catastrophe, and all of life’s other sufferings and injustices—I am acutely aware, as you probably are, that our world is at risk. We might ask: How can we meet this reality of suffering and violence? What is the task ahead of us to meet confusion, delusion, and violence in our time, in our country, in our lives? How do we realize peace transformation? Vaclav Havel once said that morality means taking responsibility—not only for our own life, but…

There’s a feeling you get rewatching a movie that ends in disaster. A hope against hope that this time the hero will cheat fate. Though the jacket of The Best Minds, novelist Jonathan Rosen’s extraordinary account of his friend Michael Laudor’s mental illness, speaks only of a “horrific act” committed by its subject, readers are well aware that something dreadful is coming. It is testament to the author’s ability to immerse us in the world he builds that this doesn’t stop us from willing a different outcome. In doing so we mirror the reactions of those around Laudor at the time, from friends to teachers to the titans of media and Hollywood – reactions that arguably helped seal his fate and that of his fiancee, Carrie Costello. Though Rosen’s lens is…

IT’S AN UNUSUAL MUSEUM DIRECTOR who wears camouflage clothing and combat boots to work, but Maj. Gen. Atef Moftah isn’t your typical museum director, and the Grand Egyptian Museum isn’t your typical museum. Seen from a distance, the sprawling, postmodern GEM, as it’s called, is so huge that it’s hard to make sense of. Its jutting, prowlike lines resemble an enormous ship run aground in the desert. Closer up, the museum’s exterior is covered in pyramid motifs, echoing the Pyramids at Giza that rise little more than a mile away. The design may be disorienting, but the message is clear: This is a museum fit for a pharaoh. An engineer by training, General Moftah is compact and erect, with close-cropped hair, a swift gait, and a take-charge manner, though his kindly…

Jehad Ashraf is the first member of her family to grow up not understanding her mother tongue. “I lived in Aswan my whole life,” said the 29 year old, who was born and raised in Nubia, southern Egypt, “but none of my family spoke Nubian to me at home.” In just two generations the language, once widely spoken, has almost vanished. In her village, a datefarming community on the Nile, “the youngest who speak Nubian are 61 or 62. It is becoming extinct,” said Ashraf. It is the same throughout Egypt and that’s something she wants to change. Last year, she helped launch the online service Nobig Koro (Learn Nubian) to encourage young people to learn the language. It is one of a number of initiatives in recent years to reach young…

5 TOP FACTS BRITISH CELTS 1 Iceni Famous for being led by Boudicca, the Iceni were located in modern-day East Anglia and were a wealthy, warlike people who led many revolts against Roman rule. 2 Dobunni This tribe was one of the largest in Britain and resided on the modern English-Welsh border. Unlike many others, the Dobunni easily submitted to Roman rule. 3 Dumnonii Occupying Cornwall, Devon and Somerset, the Dumnonii favoured small farms over larger settlements and preferred healthy relations with Brittany in France. 4 Catuvellauni One of the most powerful tribes, the Catuvellauni were made out of several smaller groups. Supporting Roman rule, Verulamium (St Albans) was a big Roman settlement. 5 Silures After the Iceni, this band of Celts gave the Romans the most trouble. Originating in the valleys of South Wales, they were described as a…

“Decorating the house for Christmas is pure joy and almost anything goes” Christmas at Northamptonshire’s Ashby Manor, ancestral home of the Guest family, is a festive gathering surrounded by the past but with a healthy dash of the contemporary. Owners Nova and her husband Henry, a financier, together with their two children, relish the chance to deck their historic house with traditional baubles and fill the rooms with music and laughter. “Decorating the house for Christmas is pure joy,” says Nova. “We listen to all kinds of Christmas albums and haul out boxes of decorations from the cellar. I am usually fairly minimalist, but all that changes at Christmas and almost anything goes – except for tinsel, which is verboten, much to my children’s dismay!” Nova, who is originally from Perth, Australia,…

Hey, Toyota—is everything, um, OK? Strapped into the new Toyota GR Corolla and sitting in pit lane awaiting our turn at a 2.1-mile section of Utah Motorsports Park’s wildly undulating road course, we felt slightly silly. Until now, we imagined, the only people who’d ever worn helmets inside a dealership-ready Corolla were unbalanced folks with visions of, well, something as absurd as a track-ready production Toyota Corolla. One such person is Toyota President Akio Toyoda. He’s been pushing the company’s Gazoo Racing (GR) subbrand, and he personally signed off on the final product. The result is the craziest showroom-spec Corolla hatchback ever built. Just how out of bounds is it? We can count on one hand the sporty Corollas sold here over the decades. It was long ago typecast as an anodyne, safe…

The outsider general How the warlord known as Hemedti captured the country’s politics. By Nesrine Malik Page 34 → On one street is a small cafe where diplomats, successful business-people and visiting dignitaries used to enjoy smoothies and burgers under umbrellas set against the blistering sun. On another is a showroom for custom-designed kitchens imported from Europe. Down dusty potholed roads, there are villas behind high walls and apartment blocks where chandeliers hang above shining marble stairways. These central Khartoum neighbour-hoods, once the most sought-after addresses in Sudan’s capital city, are now so dangerous that residents cannot wait to flee. In recent days, they have been the stage for a brutal power struggle, shattered by shells, grenades and automatic rifle fire that trapped tens of thousands in their homes. Some have managed to escape. Last…

CONSERVATIVES Poll pressure on Sunak as investigation launched A prolonged crisis within the NHS stoked by further strikes risks derailing Rishi Sunak’s local election plans amid Tory concern that the prime minister is already facing pressure over pledges on health and the economy. Sunak this week attempted to shore up Tory heartland seats where traditional supporters had been put off by the chaos of the Johnson and Truss regimes. However, opposition parties have reported that the NHS remains the most salient issue among soft Tory voters. The decision by the Royal College of Nursing to reject the government’s pay offer and announce further strikes, together with the threat of coordinated action by junior doctors, has heaped new pressure on Sunak before local polls in England that represent his first electoral test since entering 10…

Joe Biden was in his element last week on his genial tour of Ireland, meeting the politicians, meeting the people, being Joe. But in keeping with the strange – often absurd – state of US national politics, the really big event, his amble into the 2024 race for president, took shape a few days earlier at the White House Easter egg roll. Speaking to Al Roker, the weather presenter for NBC News, Biden made his plans all but official. “I’m planning on running, Al,” Biden said when Roker asked whether the president planned to take part in this frivolity after next year. “But we’re not prepared to announce it yet.” The setting, however, is far from the only absurdity about the presidential contest, still more than 18 months away. Consider the latest…

Humankind’s canine companions and feline friends belong to an order of animals called Carnivora. They are both the descendants of the first mammals of the late Paleocene epoch that hungered for the flesh of other animals. Between 65 and 35 million years ago, an order of weasel-like animals called Miacis skulked through the trees of ancient woodlands across Eurasia and North America. These furry mammals were arboreal creatures, meaning they spent their time hunting among the lush vegetation of the Paleocene forest. Although Miacis was one of the earliest carnivorous mammals on Earth, it was by no means the most ferocious. Following the extinction of the dinosaurs around 66 million years ago, two mammalian hunters rose to the top of the food chain: wolf-like predators called creodonts and the hoof-footed ancestors…

1 Récupérer toutes les mises à jour du système Après avoir validé les très nombreuses conditions d’utilisation du système d’exploitation, vous croyez avoir un ordinateur prêt à l’usage ? Détrompez-vous, il y a encore beaucoup à faire. En effet, l’une des premières tâches à réaliser est de procéder à toutes les mises à jour possibles du système d’exploitation et des pilotes. Il faudra certainement répéter plusieurs fois cette étape pour obtenir toutes les versions après chaque redémarrage. Sous Windows 10 : touches Windows + I pour aller dans les Paramètres puis Mise à jour et sécurité puis Windows Update. Cliquez alors sur Rechercher des mises à jour. Sous Windows 11 : Touche Windows + I pour entrer dans les Paramètres puis Windows Update et cliquez sur Rechercher des mises à jour. 2 Les…

Newly Available The Great British Baking Show: Holidays ORIGINAL COMPETITION Some familiar contestants try to make mincemeat out of the competition by working their holiday kitchen magic for judges Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood. It’s Season 5 and the heat is on! Mind Your Manners ORIGINAL REALITY SERIES A unique twist on the makeover formula, as etiquette expert Sara Jane Ho uses lessons in elegance and sensibility to help students find the confidence to be their best selves. Pepsi, Where’s My Jet? ORIGINAL DOCUSERIES When the soft drink giant promoted a seemingly impossible contest to win a plane in 1996, two buddies took the flight of fancy seriously and set in motion a yarn for the ages (above). Tuesday, Nov. 22 Trevor Noah: I Wish You Would ORIGINAL COMEDY SPECIAL The Daily Show host returns to his stand-up roots and works through a…

The tech industry’s latest artificial intelligence constructs can be pretty convincing if you ask them what it feels like to be a sentient computer, or maybe just a dinosaur or squirrel. But they’re not so good — and sometimes dangerously bad — at handling other seemingly straightforward tasks. Take, for instance, GPT-3, a Microsoft-controlled system that can generate paragraphs of human-like text based on what it’s learned from a vast database of digital books and online writings. It’s considered one of the most advanced of a new generation of AI algorithms that can converse, generate readable text on demand and even produce novel images and video. Among other things, GPT-3 can write up most any text you ask for — a cover letter for a zookeeping job, say, or a Shakespearean-style sonnet…

ARTEM MAZHULIN Borders are no longer blurred in Ukraine Page 47 → In Kansas City this month, an elderly white man who lives alone heard the doorbell ring. He didn’t need to open the glass front door to see that a young black boy was standing there. He reacted instantly, firing two shots through the glass, one of which struck 16-year-old Ralph Yarl in the head. Ralph had set out to pick up his younger siblings at a nearby house with a similar address: he’d made a mistake, for which he is now fighting for his life. Meanwhile, 84-year-old Andrew Lester has entered a plea of not guilty on a charge of first-degree assault. But listen to the words of Lester’s grandson. He said they used to get on well but in recent years…

Since his death in 1991, fans of the singer-songwriter and French cultural icon Serge Gainsbourg have turned his home in a quiet street in the chic 7th arrondissement of Paris into a shrine. For more than 30 years they have painted graffiti and portraits on the outside walls and left quotes and messages of love and affection in homage to the controversial artist hailed as both a great poet and a grandstanding provocateur. Now the property, owned by his daughter, the actor Charlotte Gainsbourg, and kept as it was when he died – complete with overflowing ashtrays of filterless Gitanes cigarettes and a collection of police badges – is to open to the public as Maison Gainsbourg. It was at 5 bis rue de Verneuil that Gainsbourg composed music at the piano in…

ITALY Cleanup begins after deadly floods Page 18 → Signs of the burgeoning conflict between the US and China can be spotted in many different places, from balloons in the sky to videos on TikTok. But nowhere is it more apparent than on the microscopic wafers of silicon otherwise known as semiconductors. Semiconductors, or microchips, are tiny pieces of technology that power everything from microwaves to military weapons. The industry is worth more than $580bn, but even that figure belies their importance to the global economy. Their existence powers several trillion dollars’ worth of goods and processes; without them the global economy would shudder to a halt. It’s therefore a source of concern to many that over 90% of the world’s semiconductors are made in the place many US officials think could be the site…

In a remarkably rapid growth surge, YouTube’s Music and Premium services now have more than 80 million paying subscribers combined, the company tells Variety, up a whopping 30 million from the 50 million the company announced last year. It’s a dramatic leap, especially for a platform where so much can be had for free, and would seem to place YouTube — which is the No. 1 overall streaming platform for music worldwide — as the world’s third-or fourth-largest paid music-streaming service, behind Spotify, Apple Music and China-only Tencent, although such rankings are always piled with asterisks. (The element that is most likely to make YouTube’s competitors cry foul is the fact that it includes free trials in its tally, which not all services do, if they break out such numbers at…

Prix : env. 16 000 € Rens. : https://fr.citytransformer.com/ Un véhicule qui rétrécit en largeur pour pouvoir se faufiler puis se garer facilement sur une place très étroite : voici la promesse folle de la City Transformer, conçue par l’entreprise israélienne éponyme. Cette mini-voiture électrique de 2,50 m de longueur et 1,40 m de largeur est capable de réduire cette dernière d’environ un tiers ! La transformation doit se faire obligatoirement en roulant, à 6 km/h minimum. Pour la lancer, il suffit d’appuyer sur un bouton placé sur le volant. En 5 secondes, le châssis et les roues se rétractent, et vous voilà dans une voiturette de 1 m de largeur, prête à emprunter la plus étroite des ruelles. L’expérience vécue par le conducteur semble tirée d’un James Bond. La transformation est fluide…

Chipotle—or, as my family calls it, “Taco Bell with some book learnin’”—has an ingenious menu. There’s really only one dish, but the fast-food chain presents the basic ingredients in so many ways that a veneer of individuality disguises the homogeneity. The same can be said of Land Rover’s lineup, which stuffs the same fillings into different wrappers. You want a six-cylinder all-wheel-drive SUV? Have a Range Rover Velar, which looks like a smaller Range Rover Sport, which is a slightly smaller Range Rover, which is like a fancier Discovery, which is a more polished Defender. In this analogy, the Discovery Sport is a lifestyle bowl, and the Evoque is a quesadilla off the kid’s menu. The Range Rover Sport is a staple of the company’s SUV menu. The prior generation enjoyed…