Three stage works in Paris by the incoming director of the Avignon Festival continue his preoccupation with empathy and human complexity. By Laura Cappelle PARIS — There is something about the ...

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One day in August, 1875, a greyish-blue parrot was shot on a small island in the Indian Ocean near Mauritius. It was the last time a Rodrigues parakeet was known to be seen alive. That bird was one of ...

Marooned 600km north-east of Mauritius, and close to no other landform, Rodrigues is a world unto itself. It is also one of the world's most remote inhabited islands. When the plane began its descent ...

Some of sport's greatest tales are about comebacks. The kind that linger in memory, where moments of silence suddenly erupt into thunderous cheers. That's what fans live for: those fleeting instants ...

The island of Rodrigues, nicknamed “Cinderella of the Mascarenes”, has always been slightly dismissed as Mauritius’ little sister. But surrounded by a cerulean lagoon almost twice its size, this tiny ...