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Philippe Huguen/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesArnaud Montebourg, France's minister for industrial renewal.The government of Francois Hollande becomes the latest to turn to economic patriotism as a way to bolster industry. But do such efforts contribute to economic revitalization, or are they political gimmicks? Read more…
ReutersLee Keun-ho, left, of Ulsan Hyundai Horangi, after he scored in the Asian Champions League quarterfinals.News, arts, wine and sports in today’s International Herald Tribune. Read more…
Two men have makeup applied for a new kind of documentary film that has gangsters re-creating their actual murders of Indonesian communists in 1965.“The Act of Killing” allows Indonesian gangsters to re-create their killings of communists in 1965, purges left as many as 3 million dead. The gangsters, lionized by many Indonesians, used sets, costumes, makeup and even a song-and-dance number to recount their deeds. Read more…
Samir Hussein/Getty Images for IHTSuzy Menkes and Karl Lagerfeld at the International Herald Tribune's 2009 Luxury Conference in London.The IHT’s Suzy Menkes will convene the great and the good of fashion to discuss the relationship between Africa and the trillion-dollar global industry. Can development for the poorest go hand in hand with consumption by the richest? Is “sustainable fashion” an oxymoron? Read more…
The Opinion Editors of the International Herald Tribune invited analysts from around the world to share their reactions to the re-election of President Obama. Read more »
Musée d’Orsay, ParisCaillebotte's "Floor Scrapers," 1875.What’s on view this week in art museums around the world. Read more…
Keith Blundy/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesJustin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury designate.As a symbol of Englishness, the Anglican Church is, on the face of it, as anachronistic as warm beer, London fogs and the stiff upper lip with Sunday attendance at its 16,000 parish churches falling to less than one million. Read more…
Asmaa Waguih/ReutersRebels firing on a man suspected of being a pro-government fighter in Idlib Province on Oct. 26.News, arts and sports in today’s International Herald Tribune. Read more…
Mark Ralston/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesChinese tourists on Nov. 9 walk before a screen in Tiananmen Square showing images of military personnel.From taxi drivers to professors, many care deeply about what’s happening and have turned to humor to deal with their frustration at the gap between what they want to know and what the government wants them to know. Read more…
As part of a larger geopolitical chess game by the Obama administration to counter rising Chinese assertiveness and underscoring President Obama’s desire to reorient American foreign policy more toward the Pacific, Mr. Obama will attend an economic meeting in Cambodia this month and will add visits to Myanmar and Thailand. No sitting American president has visited either Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, or Cambodia. Read more »
Mark Coote/ReutersKim Dotcom, founder of Megaupload, outside the New Zealand Court of Appeals in Wellington on Sept. 20.The famous — and infamous — millionaire Internet impresario has caused another stir in his adopted land, and this time it does not seem to be illegal. Read more…
Abel Alonso/European Pressphoto AgencyThe grape harvest in La Rioja, Spain.Across most of wine-producing Europe, the 2012 grape harvest is finished. The outlook for the year’s wine production? Well, there’s good news and there’s bad news. Read more…
Opéra national de LorraineA scene from "Artaserse."Not so long ago there might not have been five countertenors in the world who could sing the demanding opera “Artaserse” as it would have been done in 18th-century Italy, possibly with castratos. Now five are assembled under one roof, with a live stream in the offing for Saturday. Read more…
Laurent Dubrule/ReutersKarel De Gucht, the European trade commissioner.The U.S. and the European Union are expected to open talks early next year on a free-trade agreement that could help boost growth on both sides of the Atlantic. But will President Obama’s opponents try to obstruct a deal in Congress? Read more…
Francois Duhamel/Columbia PicturesDaniel Craig stars as James Bond in "Skyfall."The latest James Bond movie opens in American movie theaters Thursday, having already made a lap or two around the world. Have you seen it yet? Where did you see it, and what did you think? Read more…
