It’s registration week at the University of Nottingham and hundreds of bright-eyed first-years are filing past recruitment stations manned by groups such as the Lithuanian Club and the Sri Lankan Students’ Association. Along the way, a flurry of red, white and blue draws them to a stand promoting a country that could currently do with […]
In the sleepy parish of Ballyclare and Ballygowan, in rural Northern Ireland, 40 parishioners sit silently in the Church of the Holy Family. Shortly after 9 a.m., the sanctuary doors open, light floods the modest building and Father Eugene O’Hagan glides down the aisle in a white cassock, singing, “In my justice I shall see […]
Aspiring model Debbie van der Putten loves her body, and she isn’t afraid to show it off. The 22-year old from Helmond in the Netherlands has appeared on posters throughout Europe for charity groups, worked for a German modeling agency and recently posed nude for Playboy. While Van der Putten’s chiseled stomach and striking gaze […]
Katrín Pétursdóttir knows what treasure lies in the pile of skinned fish carcasses before her, and the investment needed to extract it. Seventy years ago her grandfather founded LÝSI, a fish processing company, which last year produced 6,000 tons of fish oil and $30 million in revenues with just 100 employees. In 2005, Pétursdóttir built […]