«Time Lab» – Yello überraschen mit neuem Album – aus alten Songskizzen

«3 vo 5» – das Kultquiz – Süsses oder Saures! Wie gut kennen Sie Halloween?

In der Nacht vom Samstag ziehen wieder Geister und Horrorgestalten durch die Strassen. Sind Sie bereit für Halloween?

Why are interest rates so high – and how exposed is Ireland?

Over the past few weeks, political unrest in France has led to a sharp rise in the interest rates the French government must pay on new borrowing. Meanwhile, US interest rates have also reached levels not seen for a couple of decades. It’s a big change from only five years ago, when some governments (including Ireland) were able to borrow money at a negative interest yield. Now Ireland has to pay about 3½ per cent annually when borrowing for 10 years, and the German government fares little better. So what’s going on and how much does it matter for us in Ireland? Although both the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Federal Reserve held back from increasing interest rates at their meetings this week, the general expectation is that their commitment to bring inflation under control will mean some further increases in coming months. The changing of the guard at…

Cork group linked to emergency accommodation centres doubles profit to €15m

John Crean and Tony O’Neill’s Peppard Investments, which is involved in the provision of emergency accommodation, more than doubled its profit to €15 million last year. The Cork-based group led by Crean and O’Neill has interests spanning property development, nursing homes and emergency accommodation centres. Newly filed consolidated accounts for their group by Peppard Investment Holdings Limited showed their network of 23 Irish companies reported combined turnover of €29.2 million last year, an increase of 17 per cent compared with 2024. The group’s pretax profits more than doubled to €16.5 million in the year after it received an additional €9 million of income from a joint venture involved in emergency accommodation in 2025 called Kintrona Limited. Following a tax expense of almost €1.2 million, Crean and O’Neill’s group booked a final after-tax profit of €15.2 million, up from €6.1 million the year previous. The pair behind the property development company…

Garda work to rule is tarnishing the State’s reputation

Sir, – The behaviour of Irish public sector unions recently has been nothing short of disgraceful. The recent strike caused real hardship to some of the most vulnerable members of our society: the sick and the poor. It was blackmail for selfish gain at the expense of others. The latest announcement by gardaí of a work to rule during the upcoming EU summit is a further extension of this unacceptable behaviour. The security of the event is being jeopardised and the State’s reputation is being undermined. – Yours, etc,PAUL KILCULLEN,Stillorgan,Dublin.

With this soap opera of intrigue, what are Fine Gael doing?

It’s hard to figure out what Fine Gael and its leader have been doing for the past couple of weeks, as they managed to turn an unfortunate health episode of one of its more colourful Ministers into a soap opera of accusation, intrigue and speculation. I know Simon Harris isn’t getting much sleep these days, but still. Next weekend the party gets the chance to gee-up the troops and rally around the leader at its ardfheis in Cork. God knows they need it. Mind you, these gatherings are also the opportunity for gossip, conspiracy, scheming and plotting. So, lots to look forward to. Everyone hopes Patrick O’Donovan makes a full recovery and is back at work quickly, and Harris has been very clear that he wants him back in the Cabinet – though, from what I can tell, few people expect to see him back soon. It is to be…

Das sind Österreichs beste Wellnesshotels 2027

Vom Thermalhotel in der Steiermark bis zum alpinen Hideaway im Salzburger Land: Der neue "Relax Guide" kürt sechs Häuser zu Österreichs besten Wellnesshotels

Südtirol (2/3): Bombenjahre

In dieser Podcastreihe nehmen wir die bewegte Geschichte Südtirols ins Auge – und die Frage, warum Rechtspopulisten die "Südtirol-Frage" bis heute für sich vereinnahmen

Proteste in Polen – Chaos und Machtkampf um Polens Verfassungsgericht

Ein Streit um fünf neue Richter eskaliert. Präsident Nawrocki verschafft sich nachts Zutritt zum Verfassungsgericht.

EN DIRECT, midterms 2026 : retrouvez les dernières informations à quelques jours des élections

Lors d’un meeting en Floride, vendredi soir, Donald a de nouveau promis 5 000 dollars à chaque Américain en cas de victoire des républicains aux élections, malgré les interrogations sur la légalité d’une telle mesure et sur son financement.

El aspirador de colchones con luz UV que ayuda a acabar con ácaros, polvo y pelos en minutos

Aunque veamos que nuestro colchón parece estar limpio, lo cierto es que en él se acumulan ácaros sin que nos demos cuenta. El polvo, las células muertas de la piel que dejamos al dormir o la humedad son algunos de los principales factores que favorecen la proliferación de estos organismos microscópicos. Seguir leyendo

2h Protestos pela habitação regressam às ruas

4h Flávio Bolsonaro justifica fuga com "perseguição"

Que faire, que voir, où aller ? L’agenda culturel et lifestyle à partir du 31 octobre

Chaque samedi, « Le Goût du Monde » vous propose sa sélection de rendez-vous et d’adresses, à Paris et partout en France. Cette semaine, une exposition événement sur Andy Warhol à Paris, une ode à la courge dans l’Eure, et une déambulation artistique dans le cimetière de Pantin.

Unseen and rare photos of a young Bob Dylan go on display and sale in Rome

John Cohen’s iconic shots find a home in the vinyl record store owned by the sons of Francesco De Gregori, the singer-songwriter often dubbed "Italy's Bob Dylan."

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Tonello soluciones.

I don’t like autumn, but these wines will help me get through it

I’ll be honest; I don’t like autumn. Give me the fresh shoots of spring any day. But it does give us the opportunity to enjoy some great autumnal foods and the wines to go with them. The food we eat takes on more weight and warmth. I certainly drink different wines too. My consumption of red wines increases over the cooler months, and I don’t mind an extra percentage point of warming alcohol on some of the cold nights. I drink fewer light crisp dry whites and instead look for richer, more textured white wines too. I also allow myself a few more treats – either a warming Irish whiskey or a glass of fortified wine. I move from drinking crisp dry fino sherry to a bigger, more full-bodied dry Amontillado filled with toasted nuts and tobacco. Today, I include two distinctive white wines. I have featured the Laurent Miquel…

Róisín Ingle: Halloween is not what it used to be and that’s no harm

At a friend’s birthday party recently, I got talking to a man about my broken dishwasher. Party chat can take you to all sorts of unexpected places. I can’t remember why I mentioned the dishwasher in the first place. I must have been desperate. I get bored easily and usually try to elevate Small Talk to Big Talk as soon as possible but sometimes “my dishwasher is broken”, which might be described as Middle of the Road Talk, works too. It turned out to be an unexpectedly rich seam on this occasion. The dishwasher had broken that morning. After preparing a post-sleepover brunch of bacon, eggs, sausages and beans, I asked four teenagers to unload and then load it again, and somewhere in the course of this activity a part fell off the dishwasher and the top shelf got stuck. The dishwasher wouldn’t close and the prospect of washing dishes…

One night in a haunted Irish castle: I try not to make eye contact with the taxidermy otter

Just as I notice the Welcome to Co Meath sign, a song starts playing on the car stereo. An algorithm has just plucked Dusty Springfield’s Spooky from my partner’s random playlist of liked songs. “That is spooky,” he says. We’re driving up to Ross Castle on a Saturday evening; the roads are quiet, and long and winding once we leave the motorway, as day slowly turns to dusk. There’s a sudden atmospheric change as we turn on to the final narrow stretch before our destination: the sky turns grey; rain starts spitting from above and wind rustles the branches of the trees along the roadside. All that is missing is a bolt of lightning to complete the title sequence for an old horror movie, as an unsuspecting couple trundle towards a secluded country castle. We arrive in the last moments of daylight to see the limestone walls of the towering…

Espresso geht auch still und leise: Mit der Handhebelmaschine zum perfekten Shot

Für guten Kaffee braucht es keine halbautomatischen Siebträgermaschinen – und schon gar keine Vollautomaten. Die Kraft der eigenen Hände reicht, zumindest fast

Von der Kindsmörderin zur Feministin: Wie uns die Hexe immer wieder heimsucht

Warum taucht immer wieder die Hexe auf, wenn über Abtreibung und Mutterschaft gestritten wird? Die Kulturwissenschafterin Jana Lammerding hat sich einen tiefsitzenden Mythos vorgenommen

AR del 31/10/2026

Life Out of Order by Audrey Niffenegger: Ambitious follow-up to the Time Traveler’s Wife

Fourteen years after her debut novel, The Time Traveler’s Wife, sold nine million copies globally and became a Hollywood movie, Niffenegger has finally written its sequel. The sci-fi romance that catapulted the author into literary superstardom introduced the world to Henry, a man born with a genetic disorder that makes him a reluctant time traveller, and his long-suffering great love, Clare. The debut had depth, artistry and literary sensibilities that elevated its status to become one of the books of the decade. Niffenegger is a professor, a visual artist and deep thinker with an eccentric creative impulse that was further evidenced in the work that followed, such as Her Fearful Symmetry and the creepy illustrated gothic novel, The Three Incestuous Sisters. As such, if, as sales suggest, the devotees of her debut have not been reading Niffenegger in the intervening years, they may be in for a shock with the…

A Saint-Malo, l’envol de Gitana 18, attraction de la Route du Rhum

Le maxi-trimaran Edmond de Rothschild sera peut-être une bête de course, comme son prédécesseur Gitana 17 avec lequel Charles Caudrelier a tout gagné. C’est une bête curieuse, à peine mise à l’eau, que le milieu de la course au large attend de voir en action lors de la Route du Rhum, qui s’élance dimanche de Saint-MaloA Saint-Malo, on distingue le local du visiteur à la qualité de l’équipement de pluie, laquelle est inversement proportionnelle à l’importance que celui ou celle sous le ciré accorde à la météo. Ce vendredi 23 octobre, il pleut sur Nantes et sur toute la Bretagne, colère résiduelle du passage de la tempête Austen, qui a mis à bas quantité de barrières, oriflammes et même quelques tentes du village départ de la Route du Rhum. Les 115 bateaux amarrés dans les bassins du port ont tenu le choc, les plus gros avec le renfort de semi-remorques…

Barcelona del futuro: así se transforma la ciudad