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On her last day Annemarie Trechsel went for lunch with her ex-husband and son. Afterwards the frail 78-year-old went to her daughter’s apartment in Bern. The Dignitas representative arrived at 1.15pm. Within two hours Trechsel was dead. “She came back...
«Signora, mi scusi, posso esserle di aiuto?». Emma si girò. Un signore alto, elegante, la osservava. Non si può stare tranquilli neppure al bar, pensò lei. «Utile perché?» si decise a rispondere. «Mi pareva piangesse» sussurrò incerto l’uomo. Emma mise...
Le vacanze studio sono cambiate. Per chi vuole qualcosa di diverso ecco alcuni modi per approcciare l'Inglese in maniera originale e divertente. Le vacanze studio esistono più o meno da sempre e non passano mai di moda. Imparare e perfezionare una lingua,...
With the number of people availing of assisted suicide in Switzerland up 60 per cent over the past five years, policymakers want to improve access to palliative care to alleviate the widespread fear of dying badly. The two main Swiss assisted suicide...
Les ossements de Nüwa, la déesse créatrice de l’humanité selon la mythologie chinoise, auraient été retrouvés et formellement identifiés. C’est ce qu’affirme un reportage du 10 juin signé de l’agence officielle Xinhua depuis la sous-préfecture de Jixian,...
Maria Verdugo, jeune diplômée de l'université de Californie à Santa Cruz, a beau n'avoir que 20 ans elle n'a gardé qu'un vague souvenir de l'élection présidentielle de 2008 : "Obama parlait surtout de changement, non ?" Aujourd'hui, Maria est tellement...
The recent EU summit came out as a heated dispute about who should take responsibility for saving the common currency, and on what terms. This responsibility is measured today in billions of euros, which is why the discussion about a growth package, support...
"The Street Kid" il ragazzo di strada di The Secret è tornato. John Assaraf ha già guadagnato l'approvazione del pubblico italiano col bestseller La Risposta. Dopo aver indicato ai lettori come trasformare la crisi economica in opportunità, Assaraf spiega...
Viviamo nell'incertezza. Tuttavia dobbiamo scegliere, ogni giorno, cercando di prevedere quello che accadrà nel futuro. E così rischiamo. Ma siamo davvero capaci di valutare i rischi che corriamo? Tra i nostri amici, c'è chi ama il rischio e il pericolo,...
Il linguaggio "Giraffa nasce dal nostro desiderio di partecipare e far conoscere alle persone, con le quali entriamo in contatto, un modello di vita e di comunicazione che abbiamo sperimentato come efficace ed affascinante, prima nei numerosi seminari...
Il timore di cambiare e il forte desiderio di trasformare gli altri per affermare la tua identità sono due forze che ti spingono a trattenere forzatamente l’idea di te stesso, impedendoti di esplorare le tue potenzialità, fino a indurti a manipolare le...
Hablar de un plebiscito sobre la pertenencia británica a la UE es un clásico de la política del país. Pero al caer en él, el primer ministro, David Cameron, se somete a sí mismo a una mayor presión por parte de sus aliados euroescépticos, sin obtener...
Pour la première fois dans l'histoire des sociétés d'après-guerre, les jeunes diplômés doivent s'attendre à vivre moins bien que leurs parents. Essoufflé, le modèle économique occidental ne parvient pas à exploiter la maîtrise technologique de cette génération...
"Romania, wake up!" headlines Evenimentul Zilei , in the wake of the latest episode in the power struggle that has pitted Prime Minister Victor Ponta against President Traian Băsescu. The daily accuses the Social-Liberal Union (USL), the coalition between...
"NLP is all about learning how to think of things differently; particularly negative things that drag you down. Buy this book and you own THE sourcebook on how to think differently and change yourself and others effortlessly with NLP. It is now the most...
Cole, tour manager to maestros of metal music Led Zeppelin throughout the band's 12-year existence, collaborates with Trubo, a syndicated journalist, on this sordid tell-all. Alcohol, cocaine and heroin abuse, shameless groupies and perverse pranks figure...
Fifteen years after Waiting to Exhale, McMillan brings back Savannah, Gloria, Bernadine, and Robin now in their 50s for a disappointing and uninspired outing. As the story opens, Gloria is very happy, Savannah believes she might be happy, Bernadine is...
Questa guida colorata al mondo delle fate è un riferimento pratico alle fate popolari del mito e della leggenda. Ogni articolo della guida esamina una fata o un demone attraverso un'illustrazione colorata e vibrante e una vivida descrizione delle sue...
Il s'en passe de belles sur la banquise. C’est avec horreur que George Murray Levick a découvert les mœurs sexuelles des pingouins de terre Adélie, rapporte le Guardian . Pendant l’été 1911-1912, cet explorateur britannique a assisté à des scènes totalement...
Sur un continent où les questions linguistiques restent parfois source de tensions nationales, les médias minoritaires jouent un rôle méconnu mais important. Jens Berg Ces dernières années, le nom de Hedvig Malina est souvent revenu dans les colonnes...
"A quoi bon les poètes en temps de détresse ?", demandait Hölderlin. Star de la chanson en Italie, sorte de Tom Waits transalpin, Vinicio Capossela répond avec un nouvel album enregistré à Athènes. Son hommage au rebetiko, le "folk grec", résonne comme...
Die Europafreunde halten Brüssel für das Allheilmittel und die Euroskeptiker behaupten, es ist die Quelle allen Übels. Doch sind sie wirklich so verschieden? Das fragt Spiked-Redakteur Brendan O’Neill. Brendan O’Neill Im Laufe des letzten Jahres ergab...
In local elections in May, comedian Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement won a number of town halls including Parma. Advocating an exit from the euro and the overthrow of Italy’s political class, Five Star is well on its way to becoming the second most powerful...
Who should win the European football championship to save the single currency? Though some are hoping that victory would boost confidence in some countries, the real match-up – with all apologies to sports fans – is far from the pitches, warns SME. Petr...
Over the last few years the Eurovision Song Contest has become an arena for political-musical confrontation. In 2009, the competition was marked by controversy over the provocatively entitled Georgian entry, “We don’t wanna put in” – an alleged allusion...
Three years ago the European Union made a commitment that did not seem overly ambitious: to have a tenth of European transport energy come from renewable sources by 2020. Part of the plan was to have an ever-growing fleet of electric vehicles that could...
Born into Swiss porn ‘nobility’, Zoë Stähli runs an X-rated art gallery in downtown Zurich and oversees the creative side of her family’s porn empire. Her greatest enemy is conformism. With dirty hands and an old film projector wedged under her arm, Stähli...
Vous cherchez une formation rapide et qualifiante avec un emploi grassement payé à la clé ? Suivez des cours de prostitution. L’Académie du plaisir, à Valence, est dans le collimateur de la justice espagnole : cette “école” proposait au grand jour une...
Une activité ténébreuse de vente de sperme est en train de prendre des proportions gigantesques au Ghana ; et malheureusement, en Côte d’Ivoire aussi. C’est pourquoi il est plus qu’impérieux d’attirer l’attention de certains infidèles au foyer, fidèles...
The doomsayers are rubbing their hands, sure that they are about to win the match. The possibility that is bringing shudders to the streets of Madrid and offices in Berlin alike – that a major EU country will ask for a bailout – looms ever closer. Spain’s...