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Though its subject matter is rescue missions, Skye Fitzgerald’s short documentary “Lifeboat” has a patient pace and an emphasis on the sensory. Six minutes into Skye Fitzgerald’s half-hour documentary “Lifeboat,” Jon Castle, the soft-spoken captain of a boat that rescues…
Starting this month, the venerable music podcast “Song Exploder,” which has been hosted and produced by the musician Hrishikesh Hirway for the past five years, will have a new host: the appealing Thao Nguyen, of Thao & the Get Down…
The European powerhouse reported a massive drop in industrial output over three consecutive months and a 4.7 percent nosedive in year-on-year productivity, new statistics reveal. Production fell 1.9 percent in November, the worse year-on-year figures since 2009 during the financial crisis, with economic confidence…
Police work can be really hard and dangerous at times – especially when officers have to deal with a “disorderly subject”. So Illinois’s McHenry Police Department decided to make a video on the matter, to show how police should handle…
Japan is located in a seismically active zone known as the Ring of Fire and regularly suffers from powerful earthquakes. The 2011 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami killed over 15,000 people and caused the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster. A 6.4-magnitude…
PARIS (Sputnik) – Paris believes it is vital to maintaining close contact with Washington on conditions of the US troops’ withdrawal from Syria, French Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly has stated, following her first meeting with US Acting…
