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I absolutely love my adopted hometown of San Miguel de Allende. Most of us who live here share a common bond in knowing that we live in a very, very special place. For many who visit here for just a few days, they don’t understand it. They have a great time while here, but they can’t imagine actually living here. They could never understand how the city was once again named “Best City in the World” in this year’s recently released Travel+Leisure magazine annual awards. How can it be that little SMA — not even in the top 100 largest…
President Trump late Friday threatened to “decimate and destroy” Iran if it carries out a reported assassination plot against him, saying he has already directed the U.S. military to be prepared to respond. “1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Over the past couple of weeks, the world’s largest memory chipmakers have produced knockout financial results yet seen their shares fall sharply. What’s going on?On Tuesday, Samsung, Korea’s largest company, predicted its second-quarter profits would rise 19-fold from a year earlier. Not 19 per cent — 19 times. Its share price dropped 10 per cent.Samsung and another Korean memory chipmaker, SK Hynix, each make up about 8 per cent of the MSCI Emerging Markets index, while Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company makes up another…
The fashions and furnishings of Czechoslovakia in the 1980s — the height of the state’s racist program of suppressing the Roma population through coerced sterilization — are painstakingly evoked in Slovakian filmmaker Ivan Ostrochovský’s “Only Beautiful Things to Look At.” But the film’s attractive yet oddly bloodless presentation gives the impression of a period drama set much farther back, as though we’re peering at the prettily mounted arrowheads and artifacts of a long-gone atrocity through museum glass. Alongside the decision to centralize the perspective of a white female doctor, this old-school, soft-focus approach robs an undeniably well-intentioned movie of a…
What is a B-side to a band as delightfully peculiar as Pixies? What happens when you flip over the group who influenced a whole generation of young punks with their loud-quiet-loud aesthetic while surfing their own boldly idiosyncratic gamma wave?Consider Complete B-Sides: 1988-97, originally released in 2001 and now getting a remaster as part of the band’s 40th anniversary celebrations. On its evidence, the Pixies B-side is a place for dazzling tunes, ferocious power, tender emotion, vocal interplay, topsy-turvy songwriting, and the odd cover version—not unlike the band’s classic albums, really, although the tiniest bit freer, with the deviance cranked…
The former BBC and Sky News presenter Dermot Murnaghan has died aged 68 after a “period of illness with prostate cancer”, his family has said.The journalist, who has long been a fixture on British TV screens, was also known for hosting the quizshow Eggheads.Before joining Sky in 2007, Murnaghan was a main presenter on BBC Breakfast and often helmed the broadcaster’s six o’clock and 10 o’clock news programmes.In 1997 he announced the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, live on ITV News and in 2023 he broke the news on Sky News of the death of Queen Elizabeth II .Last…
With the recent World Cup mania in Mexico, tourists from across the globe descended on the country. On social media, we all saw countless videos of Mexicans and foreign tourists having a great time. So with that in mind, we thought we would ask the question: Does Mexico need more tourists? Perhaps surprisingly to many people who have only been to Mexico’s big beach areas, tourism represents only about 8% of the Mexican economy. Of course at times, some parts of Mexico feel overrun with tourists, but many other amazing destinations are nearly empty. In this episode of Mexico News…
Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the EU energy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Europe has made a “major mistake” by failing to wean its economy off imported fossil fuels quickly enough since the 2022 energy crunch, the head of the International Energy Agency has warned, as the EU prepares to roll out measures to increase electrification next week. Fatih Birol said that Europe’s low electrification rate — electricity’s share of the energy consumed in the EU — of around 23 per cent is holding back the bloc’s competitiveness and economic “sovereignty”. The EU’s rate is…
Colombia’s Bogotá Audiovisual Market (BAM) has wrapped its 17th Edition July 10 with an uptick in attendance. The numbers say it all: 2,336 accredited participants and 271 industry activities and 882 one-on-one business meetings connecting selected projects with a host of international guests, advisors and potential partners. “BAM once again showed that Colombia has world-class stories to tell and the talent to bring them to global audiences. We’re confident that many of the projects that came through the market leave stronger than they arrived—and one step closer to becoming the films, series, and audiovisual experiences audiences will see in the…
Ariana Grande will not appear in the 13th season of American Horror Story after all, with her exit driven by a scheduling conflict with her ongoing Eternal Sunshine Tour, according to THR. Explore See latest videos, charts and news Grande was announced as part of the AHS Season 13 cast on Halloween 2025, marking her first appearance on the Ryan Murphy anthology series and a reunion with the producer following her role on his 2015 series Scream Queens. But a recently released teaser for the season, subtitled 13, did not feature her, with reports that a change to the show’s…