Old Pic breaks the News

NO COMMENT...


... except that nowadays the statuettes of the Milan cathedral
are very trendy, in Italy.

Yours faithful G@tto.
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Recycling & eco-lighting in Paris for Xmas

Below, the place of the French Comedy in Paris
this year decorated with 4 Christmas trees
made of very green plastic bottles...

(December 4 to January 15)

(XinhuaNet)


(Designpack Gallery)


(FabricePeltier)
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Dogs in the City, aka Urban Dogs

I've spent a few days early October 2009in Sanremo and Nice on the coast,
and recorded what is just a little number of the dogs I've seen all around the
streets ! Looks like there would be 1 dog per 30 inhabitants or so...

Citizen Dogs...

(G@ttoGiallo).

Music: Ricky North, The Entertainer, Cascades.
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Copenhagen Summit, the Biggest Deal

Climate change global editorial
on 56 newspaper front pages,
from 45 countries,
in 20 different languages.

"'Fourteen days to seal
history's judgment
on this generation"

* The Project
* Global Guardian's editorial

"Newspapers have never done anything like this before - but they have never
had to cover a story like this before." (Alan Rusbridger, Guardian editor-in-chief).
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- ASIA: 16 PAPERS/13 COUNTRIES and REGIONS

Economic Observer, China Chinese, Southern Metropolitan, China Chinese,

CommonWealth Magazine, Taiwan English, Joongang Ilbo, South Korea

Korean, Tuoitre, Vietnam Vietnamese, Brunei Times, Brunei English,

Jakarta Globe, Indonesia English, Cambodia Daily, Cambodia English,

The Hindu, India English, The Daily Star, Bangladesh English, The News,

Pakistan English, Daily Times, Pakistan English, Gulf News, Dubai English,

An Nahar, Lebanon Arabic, Gulf Times, Qatar English, Maariv, Israel Hebrew.

- EUROPE – 20 PAPERS/17 COUNTRIES

Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany German, Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland Polish,

Der Standard, Austria German, Delo, Slovenia Slovene, Vecer, Slovenia

Slovene, Dagbladet Information, Denmark Danish, Politiken, Denmark

Danish, Dagbladet, Norway Norwegian, The Guardian, UK English,

Le Monde, France French, Libération, France French, La Repubblica, Italy

Italian, El Pais, Spain Spanish, De Volkskrant, Netherlands Dutch,

Kathimerini, Greece Greek, Publico, Portugal Portuguese, Hurriyet, Turkey

Turkish, Novaya Gazeta, Russia Russian, Irish Times, Ireland English,

Le Temps, Switzerland French.

- AFRICA - 11 PAPERS/8 COUNTRIES

The Star, Kenya English, Daily Monitor, Uganda English, The New Vision,

Uganda English, Zimbabwe Independent, Zimbabwe English, The New Times,

Rwanda English, The Citizen, Tanzania English, Al Shorouk, Egypt Arabic,

Botswana Guardian, Botswana English, Mail & Guardian, South Africa

English, Business Day, South Africa English, Cape Argus, South Africa

English.

- NORTH and CENTRAL AMERICA - 6 PAPERS/5 COUNTRIES

Toronto Star, Canada English, Miami Herald, USA English, El Nuevo Herald,

USA Spanish, Jamaica Observer, Jamaica English, La Brujula Semanal,

Nicaragua Spanish, El Universal, Mexico Spanish.

- SOUTH AMERICA – 3 PAPERS/2 COUNTRIES

Zero Hora, Brazil Portuguese, Diario Catarinense, Brazil Portuguese,

Diario Clarin, Argentina Spanish.

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- and G@ttoGialloNews, (Europe #57)...

with his personal message to Copenhagen :
"Turn the gas taps off, this time" !

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In the middle of a stupid controversy about minarets...

... spreading from Switzerland.
Well, let's have a look instead to the good side, the wonderful Paris Great
Mosque - minaret included - and, a few steps away, to the Arab World
Institute...
[Check this video podcast in 2 parts, forecasted by The Guardian].

(oclandestin)

The Grand Mosque of Paris is an old idea from the time of the colonial France.
Since 1533 - at the time of King Francois I and Caliph Suleiman the Magnificent,
they wanted to build a mosque in Paris for Muslim people.
It's a long story and you had to wait until 1917, when they created an association
in Algiers - at that time Algeria was part of the French territory.
They started to build it in 1922, and it was opened in 1926, so it's an old mosque,
more than 80 years old, and it's a bit of a symbol of French Islam (more).


(oclandestin)
The Institut du Monde Arabe is a centre for Arabic arts and culture.
The building was designed by French architect Jean Nouvel and intended to be
a dialogue between cultures. It reflects a modern interpretation of traditional
Islamic art and architecture (more).

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