Sun, Jan 20 2019

Selly Raby Kane is eyeing me through a pair of bright-pink, frameless glasses. Senegal's most famous fashion designer has clomped across her graffiti-decorated studio in black biker boots to come and introduce herself. SRK, as the 31-year-old…

GOOD NEWS from the Balkans is rare. Even after Alexis Tsipras and Zoran Zaev, the prime ministers of Greece and Macedonia, agreed last June to end a 27-year dispute over what to call the former Yugoslav republic, few pundits would have bet that…

“I THINK I am a special one,” José Mourinho boasted in 2004. One of football's most lauded managers, he won six domestic titles in his first 11 seasons in top leagues. But his powers have deserted him of late. He was sacked by…

SOME CITIES are symbolised by their monuments, such as the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum and the Brandenburg Gate. But streets can do the job, too. Many are named after national heroes—nearly all of them male. Dozens of streets in Hungary are…

FOR MOST of Western history, childhood was nasty, brutish and short, or even non-existent. Before modern medicine and public-health standards, many infants did not live to see their first birthday—and if they did, they were expected to grow…