Heavily pregnant French First Lady on Paris day out
‘ I can’t drink or smoke any more; I’m in a hurry
to get it over with’:
The French first lady who is almost two weeks
overdue – cut an uncomfortable looking figure as she wandered out in
Paris yesterday with a mobile phone clamped to her ear.
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Ai Weiwei named as world’s most important art figure
‘For reminding the art world of its wider
political role’:
Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who hit the
headlines during his 81-day detention by Chinese authorities, was on
Thursday named as the world’s most powerful art figure by
influential magazine Art Review. Ai, who was released in June after
being imprisoned for “economic crimes”, tops the London-based
publication’s annual “power 100 list” ahead of Hans-Ulrich Obrist
and Julia Peyton-Jones, curators of London’s Serpentine Gallery.
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Environmentalists call for portable toilets on Everest
‘Somewhere civilized to go when nature calls’:
An environmental group is asking the Nepal
government to consider installing portable toilets on Mount Everest
for climbers caught short at the roof of the world. Eco Himal says
the thousands of trekkers who set off from the South Base Camp in
Nepal each year would do a better job of keeping the place clean if
they and their porters had somewhere civilised to go when nature
called.
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