Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. Markets positive Wall Street hit another record on Friday as …
But for Michael Palin, plus his friend and photographer sidekick, Cheung Chau’s Basil Pao Ho-yun, Hong Kong might never have appeared on as many world travellers’ “must do” lists as it has. It featured memorably in the acclaimed 1989 travelogue Around the World in 80 Days, which became the avuncular ex-Python Palin’s ticket to a …
Cave dwellers gathered around a campfire getty When in the 1957 a group of Neanderthal skeletons was excavated in Shanidar Cave in Iraq, scientists discovered clumps of pollen in the grave fill of one skeleton. French archaeologists Ralph Solecki and botanist Josette Leroi-Gourhan published a revolutionary book based on this discovery. Some pollen grains were …