Sep 6 2010
Protesters hurled shoes and eggs Saturday at Tony Blair who held the first public signing of his memoir amid high security in Ireland’s capital. Hundreds more people lined up to have their books autographed — evidence that the divisions left by...
Oct 8 2009
Walk through Gort in western Ireland any weekday morning and you see them standing around in twos and threes. As many as 20 men will be waiting in the town square hoping someone - a farmer, builder or somebody simply needing to sort out their garden -...
Mar 27 2008
Russia and Britain appear to have embraced tit-for-tat art exhibitions as a new form of diplomacy after the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow announced that it would host a big exhibition of paintings by J.M.W. Turner. Only months after a...