Why rampant capitalism is taking hold in Venezuela
A new neoliberal reality has emerged in the Chavist nation through the use of the US dollar, state controls being lifted and a new relationship with Washington
Romy Schneider, the empress of free women
A documentary about the iconic actress and a new movie about Elizabeth of Austria, who she portrayed in the ‘Sissi’ trilogy, have both premiered at Cannes
Cecilia Lindgren, obesity expert: ‘An excess of 100 calories a day is enough to gain 4.5 kilos a year’
The director of the Big Data Institute at Oxford University sheds light on the genetic roots of surplus weight and combats ‘the misconception that obese people overeat’
Teleportation breakthrough paves the way for quantum internet
A Dutch team has succeeded in exchanging qubits between distant nodes with no direct connection between sender and receiver
Lazarus, the cybercriminals who steal and extort for North Korea’s ‘Beloved Leader’
The group of hackers that hijacked computers around the world with the WannaCry virus in 2017 has just stolen $625 million in cryptocurrencies, the largest cyber heist on record
The lives destroyed by the Texas school shooting
This is what is known so far about the victims killed by Salvador Ramos: from the eight-year-old baseball fan to the 46-year-old teacher who was a mother to four
The long journey of Pancho Villa’s historic pistol
The 38-caliber revolver, manufactured in northern Spain in the early 20th century, was a gift to the revolutionary from former President Francisco I. Madero. Now it returns to Mexico after passing through Cuba
Scientists develop tomatoes that produce as much vitamin D as eggs
A genetic modification allows these vegetables to generate significant amounts of the essential micronutrient’s precursor
Dona Maria, enslaved for 72 years by three generations of a family in Brazil
‘She does not recognize herself as a slave, nor do they see themselves as enslavers,’ says the labor inspector who rescued the 85-year-old domestic worker in Rio de Janeiro. Her case reflects the legacy of three centuries of buying and selling Africans