By Agence France-Presse The tall light brown hats worn by whirling dervishes are as intriguing as the elliptical dance performed in honour of the Sufi poet and mystic Rumi. In Konya, a sprawling city in Turkey’s central Anatolian plain where Rumi spent most of his life and died 750 years ago, one of the last […]
By Reuters By Sam Tobin and Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -High-profile British broadcaster Piers Morgan, the former editor of British tabloid the Daily Mirror, knew about phone hacking at the newspaper, a judge at London’s High Court ruled on Friday in a lawsuit brought by Prince Harry and others. Morgan has often publicly criticised Harry […]
By Agence France-Presse When Jose Soriano was a child, the hills near the village of Sarrion in Spain’s remote and sparsely populated eastern province of Teruel were mostly uncultivated, covered in brush and rocks. Now they are home to rows of oak trees, where large quantities of black truffles — one of the most exclusive […]