Improvisation at the train station in paris!

A moment in time.
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Would Baseball have Become America’s National Pastime Without Baseball Cards?

Tobacco companies spurred the mania, but artistry won the hearts of collectors
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Lech Walesa: Poland's current leaders 'are either traitors or complete fools'

Former Polish President Lech Walesa played a key role in the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. At 75, he told DW that retirement is far from his mind and warned against the path Poland's leaders are taking.
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The Deadliest Massacre in Reconstruction-Era Louisiana Happened 150 Years Ago

In September 1868, Southern white Democrats hunted down around 200 African-Americans in an effort to suppress voter turnout
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The Eternal Life of the Instant Noodle

How instant noodles, now 60 years old, went from a shed in Japan to global success.
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Bizarre Particles Keep Flying Out of Antarctica's Ice, and They Might Shatter Modern Physics

There's something out there that physicists have never seen before, and it's coming up from the bottom of the Earth. Scientists think it's a brand-new particle.
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Why Do We Pledge Allegiance?

Few democracies require children to make a daily declaration of fealty to country. By Jack David Eller.
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She's a model citizen, but she can't hide in China's 'social credit' system

Dandan Fan’s every move will soon be watched and judged by her government, and she’s happy about that. Social credit will unite Big Brother and big data to coerce more than a billion people. By Matthew Carney.
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Saving Scotland’s Heritage From the Rising Seas

Citizens and scientists on the Orkney Islands are racing to protect thousands of ancient structures threatened by climate change.
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China’s Giant Market for Really Tiny Cars

The taste for tiny electric vehicles has become a quirky subplot in China’s clean-energy ambitions, with sales more than twice that of regular electric cars.
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Pioneering study finds more than 200,000 rats in Barcelona’s sewers

Many specimens were discovered to be carrying bacteria and worms that can be passed on to humans, prompting experts to talk about a public health problem
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Don't send a man to the grocery store!

Jeanne Robertson
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Murdered man's body found after tree 'unusual for the area' grew from seed in his stomach

Ahmet Hergune was killed during the conflict between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots in 1974
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Of Roe, Rights, and Reconciliation

On the British Columbia coast, the Heiltsuk First Nation asserts its rights to manage its resources, and who has access to them, through the seasonal herring harvest. By Ian Gill.
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Kosovo offers Israel an embassy in exchange for recognition

President of Kosovo says his country would open an embassy in Jerusalem if Israel recognizes it as an independent state.
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Spiders Have Exploded Over This Greek Town, Coating Everything in a 1,000-Foot Web

If you aren't fond of spiders, this scene will sound like a nightmare. A 300-metre-long (1,000-foot) field of spiderweb has sprung up in western Greece in the town of Aitoliko.
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Norway's Newest Ships Give a Glimpse Into the Future of Sustainable Seafaring

The country is using oil and gas riches to engineer emission-free vessels
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87 days of smog: Southern California just saw its longest streak of bad air in decades

Southern California went 87 days without a clean air day, the longest stretch of consecutive ozone pollution violations in at least 20 years. Regulators blame the persistence in pollution on hot, stagnant weather and are studying whether climate change is driving it.
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Scientists thought they had created the perfect tree. But it became a nightmare

A pear seedling selection named Bradford was cloned by the gazillion to become the ubiquitous street tree of America’s postwar suburban expansion. Then it turned invasive. By Adrian Higgins.
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Cuomo’s Win: It’s All About the Money

The New York governor’s victory over Cynthia Nixon furthers the myth of the ‘inevitable’ candidate. By Matt Taibbi.
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Journeys Into the Outside With Jarvis Cocker

Groundbreaking Channel 4 series from 1998 exploring Outsider Art, in which Jarvis Cocker travels the globe in search of large-scale visionary environments. [All three episodes inside the snap.]
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The last Kalinga tattoo artist, Whang Od

Meet Whang Od. She lives in the Philippines and is the last master of the art of traditional, hand-tapped Filipino tattoos.
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Saving the Prized Chile That Grows Only in Oaxaca’s Mountains

Farmers growing the smoky pepper had no idea chefs were paying top dollar for it.
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China appears to be accelerating development of a super-heavy lift rocket

The Long March 9 rocket would be on par with the Saturn V booster.
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Inside the luxury Soviet airport that now faces demolition in Armenia

It was the height of luxury when it was built in 1971 near the Armenian capital Yerevan. Now stepping inside Zvartnots airport's abandoned terminal is like being transported back four decades.
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The rarest fabric on Earth

The once-endangered vicuna is thriving in the Peruvian Andes, thanks to a bold plan to sustainably gather and sell its valuable fleece – and give locals a stake in its survival.
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Hawaii’s trendy word that’s misunderstood

Practiced since as long as Hawaiians can remember, hoʻoponopono is necessary on an island where space and resources are limited and the community is key to survival.
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How does a food become a trend? Ask cauliflower.

How cauliflower took over your pizza, your kitchen, and the world
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Isolated Nomads Are Under Siege in the Amazon Jungle

Protected forests in Brazil and Peru hold some of the world’s last remote indigenous groups, increasingly threatened by resource-hungry outsiders.
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'For me, this is paradise': life in the Spanish city that banned cars

In Pontevedra, the usual soundtrack of a Spanish city has been replaced by the tweeting of birds and the chatter of humans
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Kansas woman told birth certificate wasn’t enough to prove citizenship for passport

Birtherism for everyone: Born and raised in Kansas, Gwyneth Barbara didn’t expect this kind of hassle.
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10 key moments in street art history that made graffiti a beloved international art form.

A look at 10 important moments in the history of graffiti that pushed graffiti art from underground subculture to mainstream trend.
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New-style TripAdvisor aims to be the world's first ‘travel feed’

The site’s new web and mobile platforms will no longer be just about reviews – it will host content from major publishers, too
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Farewell trans fats? Here's why Canada's ban won't immediately see them banished from store shelves

Artificial trans fats will be off Canadian plates for good, as the final step to ban them in Canada is scheduled to take effect Monday. Researchers believe a ban could prevent up to 12,000 heart attacks in Canada over 20 years.
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Scotland’s clock that’s (almost) never on time

Edinburgh’s landmark clock tower has been responsible for keeping commuters and travellers on time for more than a century – and yet it is never correct.
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No Small Deed Face Facts: ‘Little Mac’ Outwitted Lee at Antietam

Two Civil War words tend to bring everyone’s blood to the boiling point: George McClellan.
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It's hard to spread the idiot fruit

In a few idyllic parts of Queensland grows the idiot fruit, a tall tree with intricate flowers and some of the largest seeds in Australia.
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Girl, 9, protests at Australian anthem

Harper Nielsen stirs a social media storm claiming "Advance Australia Fair" ignores indigenous people.
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The language the French forbade

Despite centuries of efforts to make standardised French the language of all of France, Occitan, which is intrinsically tied to the local culture, could not be suppressed.
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Suu Kyi defense of jailing of Reuters journalists 'unbelievable':...

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday the jailing of two Reuters journalists had nothing to do with freedom of expression and they can appeal against their seven-year sentences, prompting a sharp rebuke from the United States.
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If self-driving cars want to transform cities, they’ll have to figure out Boston first

The city's infamous roads and drivers have created some "unique" challenges for autonomous vehicles. But that's sort of the point.
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Nazi Collaborator or National Hero? A Test for Lithuania

Jonas Noreika has been honored as a martyr since his execution by the Soviet secret police in 1947. But he now stands accused by his own granddaughter of helping the Nazis kill Jews.
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A Warning From Europe: The Worst Is Yet to Come

Polarization. Conspiracy theories. Attacks on the free press. An obsession with loyalty. Recent events in the United States follow a pattern Europeans know all too well.
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Travelers: Here’s why you should never use a hotel water kettle

Put down that cuppa.
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China Can’t Afford a Cashless Society

A mania for mobile payments is leaving the poor behind.
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​EU smacks internet in the face with link tax and upload filter laws

In one of the dumbest technology regulation moves since the US's FCC destroyed America's net neutrality, the European Union's copyright law overhaul promises to wreck today's internet.
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Descend Into Great Britain’s Network of Secret Nuclear Bunkers

And meet the determined enthusiast bringing them back to life.
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Europe’s Conservatives Thought They Could Control Viktor Orban. They Were Wrong.

As the Hungarian prime minister built an “illiberal state,” creating a template for the far right, center-right leaders in Brussels did little to stop him.
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Ghost Plants: Reusing Huge Abandoned Sears Buildings Across Urban America

A few years back, I moved into a Sears building — no, not that famous skyscraper in Chicago, or one of those department stores in the suburbs, but a city block-sized brick behemoth just south of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Watch this satellite footage of a rocket launching from the Gobi Desert

Another success for the Chinese private startup OneSpace, but no rockets have gone to orbit yet
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