Stratfor has just released an analysis of a potential heat wave in Paris this summer. The bottom line: spring has been “exceptionally hot”—the hottest in the past century, and driest in the past 50 years. Summer is expected to be just as hot—probably hotter than the 2003 heat wave in which 15,000 died. That heat [...]

[lang_en]France has witnessed a huge growth in the influence of Buddhism—particularly the Tibetan variety—in the past 20 years, thanks to the establishment of numerous monasteries and the charisma of the Dalai Lama. A survey last September revealed 11% of French people described themselves as “close to Buddhism”, behind 62% who said the same of Roman Catholicism and 19% [...]