Running with the bulls at San Fermín festival – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Revellers from around the world flock each year to Pamplona for the bullfights and the running of the bulls during the San Fermín festival. The annual ritual in the northern Spanish city was made famous by Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises Read More...
Scarlett Johansson will reportedly contact the FBI over alleged naked photos of her that surfaced on the internet yesterday. The images, which appear to have been taken by the actress herself with a mobile phone, have been published on several websites. However, sources close to the Vicky Cristina Barcelona star told a US gossip site that they believe a criminal act has taken place.
According to the site, the FBI has become involved in several high profile cases of phone hacking which have included the images of naked female celebrities recently, including Vanessa Hudgens. Read More...
Literary tripsElena Ferrante’s Naples, Umberto Eco’s medieval mysteries, EM Forster’s Tuscany … Italy comes alive through these great books 10 of the best novels about France
Long before Covid-19, there were always bad things in the press about Italy: corruption, mafia, bureaucracy. But, whenever I went, life seemed to work out even so. People may be poor but they still sit in the sun, drink and chat; music and culture are a birthright; the right seems in the ascendant but on the ground it feels blessed with far-seeing idealists – it has almost four times as much land under organic cultivation as the UK, for example. Read More...