On December 4th this year, the CEO of UnitedHealthCare Brian Thomson was shot dead as he was walking to the New York Hilton Midtown Hotel...

‘You must pay your cat tax!’ is what Chinese users of Red Note, also known as Xiaohongshu, are demanding of new American users. The cat...

In the lion’s den  “ I wanted to teach where it would benefit the students most. ” In this way, Hugo Girard, a 24-year-old History and...

When Anora opens, Sean Baker exposes his main character in the neon-drenched fantasy of a strip club: sparkling and smiling as she dances...

Dear readers, as the MD does every week, here is a quick overview of this week's events.   Israel-Palestine On January 13, 2025, the...

The Netherlands decided on December 12 2024 to stop its traditional Miss Netherlands beauty pageant, a move that has spread both...

The 20th of December, only four days before Christmas, turned out to be a tragic day for many German citizens. A car driven by...

The United Nations (UN) General Assembly has adopted a new Convention against Cybercrime on December 24th 2024. The multiple years of...

Fires spread over Los Angeles due to global warming. In only four days of fires, more than 179,000 people  were evacuated from the area,...

The Space Between the Snow and the Sparrows After a tiresome trip, I made it back home for Christmas. I had not been feeling it this...

We are officially a few days into the New Year: Happy New Year, everyone! Whether you celebrated at home, with family or friends, whether...

Alleged CEO Shooter Faces Life Prison Sentencing in New York On the other side of the Atlantic, American media were engrossed all week...

Much ink has been spilled about the German political and economic demise from domestic and foreign contributors. This is the great thing...

South Korea has been in political turmoil since December 3rd when President Yoon Suk-yeol declared Martial Law at 22:30 in a television...

Is our democracy decaying or progressing? The age-old question, which often plagues our generation, once again is at the forefront of...

In 100 Years of the Fashion Film ,  Marketa Uhlirova describes the relationship between fashion and cinema as a “mutual attraction.”  In...

Plot Twist  I don’t have the age to vote. Still, my age didn’t stop me from being surprised by last June Parliament’s dissolution and...

On November 7th, the Europa League football match between the Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax in Amsterdam led to violent clashes...

Despite the year drawing to an end, issues around the world are far from being concluded. From the constitutional crisis of South Korea,...

Knitting is going through a revival across social media, but in Norway, it was never dead. When I started my exchange in Trondheim,...

This town, located next to Lisbon,  holds many castles and royal residences. It became a UNESCO  Heritage Site in 1995 and the European...

It is official: Saudi Arabia will host the 2034 edition of the FIFA World Cup, the biggest sporting event in the world. The anticipated...

As every student has probably deduced from the amount of emails UM has sent out, Dutch universities are not particularly excited about...

December is finally here and is supposed to be the “most wonderful time of the year”! However, this week, many sudden developments...

On Tuesday, I was on my way to the Law Café to get myself a cappuccino, as usual. In the background, the TV was not playing the usual...

As the Ukrainian conflict exceeds a thousands days of relentless fighting, the war has entered an unpredictable phase with heightened...

The Spanish monarchy  is a subject of significant divide within Spanish society. Indeed, the royal family raises many questions from a...

No Other Land has won the IDFA NPO Doc Audience Award 2024 , the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) public prize...

It is a 100,000 m2 large, energy-consuming, grey box, that stores innumerate computers. What is it? If your guess was a data centre, you...

Trigger warning. This article tackles several difficult topics, including rape and being drugged. More and more people are claiming that...

Very demure word of the year 2024 The last week of November always tends to be chaotic. With Black Friday at the end of it, people...

COP29: The ‘Finance COP’ Between November 11 and 23, 2024, COP29 convened for nearly two weeks of debates, press conferences, and...

The Netherlands is a rich country. On a global, even European scale, it is extremely wealthy. It consistently ranks high in quality of...

For the next two weeks, in addition to their weekly magazines and newspapers, millions of Swedes will receive in their mailboxes what...

While it may seem Donald Trump is currently deciding the course of the next 4 years with his new government appointments, it is important...

A few months ago, I read a book called Perfume  by Patrick Süskind. Although I have read other books since then, I keep thinking about...

Skyscrapers have long transcended their utilitarian function, now serving as emblems of national pride, political power and economic...

Anaïs Nin (1903 - 1977) was a novelist and a diarist who, in her tender, soulful works, tangled the imaginative nature of fiction with...

Once again, students have shown what they are capable of. After the catastrophic flooding in Valencia, which cost over 200 lives and...

If there were any doubts about whether Donald Trump would follow through on the promises made during his campaign, his early nominations...

Last Wednesday (13th of November), chilling at the library, scrolling and making space in my Outlook student email, I went to the ‘Other’...

“Blühende Landschaften”   35 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the former chancellor Helmut Kohl’s evocation of “Blühende...

The nationwide protest against a 1 billion cut in the 2025 Dutch budget for higher education and research, originally scheduled in...

Top foods for skin health, supplements for longevity, cold plunges, blue light blocking glasses, inflammation, red light therapy,...

Quotas for government jobs may not be what you think would spark up a revolution — even though they were indeed the initial driver behind...

Founded in 1980 by Thierry Pick in his parents' garage in France, Clinitex  is now a major player in professional cleaning, with over...

The republic of Türkiye, majorly known as Turkey internationally, is a country in the Middle East famous for its tourist spots and...

Water is pretty cool, right? Drink it, and you’re not thirsty any more; pour it on yourself, and you’re cleaner than ever before; dive in...

Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. In what was predicted to be one of the closest U.S. presidential elections in...

The outbreak of the Ukraine War in 2022 pushed Eastern Europe into a perilous situation. A region historically ridden with imperial...