Most of Johannes Vermeer’s women are indisposed. Female subjects mostly go about doing their everyday tasks in the Dutch Golden Age painter’s mere 36 known canvases—they answer correspondence, play musical instruments, pour milk. They sit or stand in interiors packed with objects that provide eye candy and context. There are two exceptions to this rule:…
Vladimir Putin arrived in North Korea on Tuesday, the Kremlin said, heightening Western concerns over deepening military cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang. The Russian president’s “friendly state visit” on 18-19 June is his first trip to the neighbouring country in 24 years. Mr Putin will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang. It will…
The captain of an aid ship has described the moment his crew used axes and hammers to rescue migrants trapped in the cargo hold of a sinking wooden boat off the coast of Italy. Ingo Veert, captain of a RESQSHIP aid vessel, told the BBC’s Today programme that his crew initially saved 50 migrants stuck…
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has raised with China’s Premier Li Qiang an incident at parliament house where Chinese officials tried to obstruct a journalist previously jailed in Beijing, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Tuesday. Li’s visit to Australia from June 15-18 was the first by a Chinese…
Cricket, a sport often described as a cross between baseball and chess, is having a renaissance after two back-to-back wins by the U.S. men’s team at the T20 Cricket World Cup in Dallas. In their World Cup debut as co-host, the United States defeated Canada and Pakistan, the latter of which is one of the…