Over a third of Swiss Wine comes from the vineyards of Valais, stretching for a hundred kilometres along the river Rhône. Sion, the region’s capital straddles the river, and two 13th-century castles, Valere and Tourbillon, overlook the town. Vineyards, typical of the area, run up the steep slopes and along […]
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NEW DELHI — There isn’t any room at Sion Hospital in India’s megacity, Mumbai – approximately all 500 beds reserved for COVID-19 patients are occupied. And with new patients coming in daily, a doctor said the hospital is being forced to add beds every second day. Waiting lists in some […]
Could it be that plug-in electric cars are on the road to becoming passe? Could solar-powered cars, once a topic of after-dinner chatter, be shifting up a gear to be the next big thing in motoring? Perhaps not in the forseable future but we are likely to see the emergence […]
The 38-year-old British man who died in an avalanche on the Swiss Alps yesterday has been identified as a chef from Doncaster. Jamie Clark was killed when snow engulfed ten people off-piste in Les Attelas area near Verbier at around 10.20am on Monday. Helicopters, ski patrol and dog teams rushed […]
Screenshot: X68000555 It’s common knowledge that fighting game sprites have grown larger and more refined as technology has improved, at least in those rare few games that still use them. But I never truly appreciated how big of a difference there is between the classics and their modern counterparts before […]
Sometimes a piece of pop culture worms its way into your brain, builds a comfortable, cost-efficient home in your cerebral cortex, and lives there happily for decades on end. My own tenant is The Bouncer, an odd beat ‘em up by Square Soft, which came out in Japan 20 years […]
Buried for years under Mumbai’s new roads and ever-increasing layers of development, the British passion for cartography is set to rise up on the city’s streets again thanks to a project to preserve its colonial milestones. When workers from Mumbai municipal corporation (BMC) were demolishing unauthorised buildings three years ago, […]
Johan Djourou could sense someone in pursuit as he walked off the training pitch towards the end of his trial at Arsenal. He turned round and there was Arsène Wenger, typically hands-on, at pains to plan the future of a relatively obscure hopeful from Geneva. “So, how do we sign […]