Arkiv-Global View

Gay people and the city have been a good match since Sodom and Gomorrah. From the molly houses of 18th-century London to 1970s San Francisco via prewar Berlin, the urban environment has always been the natural habitat of queer culture – a place where LGBT people can set their own rules, form their own families, be anonymous when they want to and find company when they fancy it.

I stood before the panel of rabbis, waiting to have a religious divorce conferred upon me. I was dressed as the Orthodox Jewish woman I was supposed to be, modestly, in a below-the-knee navy skirt and buttoned cardigan. But I felt exposed. What kind of shameful woman, I imagined the rabbis thinking, leaves her marriage; what kind of mother uproots her life?

It felt impossible that any of them could understand why, a month shy of my 40th birthday, after almost 17 years of marriage and three children, I had upended the foundations of my life. I was barely able to believe it myself.

Un programma densissimo ed impegnativo, organizzato dal Presidente onorario di Konfindustria Albania in Italia Giovanni Firera, ha visto ancora una volta l’Albania al centro delle attenzioni Istituzionali ed imprenditoriali in Piemonte. La sua attività a favore della nazione Albania non ha limiti e da tutti è stata apprezzata oltre che evidentemente condivisa. Il Vice Ministro di Economia Brunilda Paskali se ne è resa conto fin dal primo momento in cui ha messo piede in Italia. Gli incontri hanno avuto inizio la domenica stessa dell’arrivo.

Sapremo difendere il mestiere? O noi giornalisti faremo la fine di tessitori, linotipisti e bigliettai? Una macchina farà il lavoro per noi, oppure noi lavoreremo per una macchina. Il sogno di molti editori, in giro per il mondo, è una centrifuga di notizie, in grado di ingoiare tutto e produrre un succo commestibile e a buon mercato.

Proteste e paura a Kiev. Ora l’Europa e Obama minacciano le sanzioni

Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych announced that he had agreed a truce with opposition leaders on Wednesday night, amid global outrage over the deaths of 28 people in the government’s offensive against protesters.

Fires continued to burn overnight in Kiev's Independence Square, but no violence has been reported.

David Bowie used his platform as the winner of the best British male solo artist on Wednesday night to make an unexpected intervention in the the debate over Scottish independence. In a statement delivered by the model Kate Moss, who accepted the prize for him, Bowie said, "Scotland, stay with us."

Can we talk about the United Nations? I know, I know. But give me a minute. We don’t do this very often.

Sono stati quasi 12 milioni e mezzo (12 milioni 466 mila), pari al 45.77% di share, gli spettatori che hanno seguito la prima parte della serata d’esordio del festival di Sanremo. La seconda parte ha raccolto 5 milioni 680 mila con il 47.14%. La media ponderata è pari a 10 milioni 938 mila con il 45.93%.Il picco di ascolto della prima serata del Festival di Sanremo è stato nel momento del monologo di Luciana Littizzetto sulla lettera a San Remo, alle 21.26, con 16 milioni 48mila spettatori. Share massimo alle 23.58 per l’ingresso di Yusuf Cat Stevens con il 55,36 per cento.

"Raise your hand if you're an introvert."

During two different years, I made this request to more than 200 MBA students at Wharton. In 2011, only a few students raised their hands. In 2013, more than a third of the hands shot up.

Had we accepted a more introverted cohort of students? No. When they filled out confidential surveys, the two classes were identical: on a 1-5 scale, where 1 is extremely introverted and 5 is extremely extraverted, the average was 3.34 in 2011 and 3.39 in 2013.