Here’s everything you need to know or may have missed about this cultural week (17-21 March 2025) in pictures. Saint Patrick’s Day is celebrated worldwide in more than 200 countries. It is a national holiday in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, and the British overseas territory, Montserrat - both of which have inhabitants with Irish descent.
And there's more to this holiday than just an excuse to drink pints of Guinness...
. We lost the wonderful actress Émilie Dequenne this week. The Belgian star who starred in ‘Rosetta,’ for which she won the Cannes Film Festival’s best actress award for her debut performance in 1999, .
After nine months in space, Nasa astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams finally arrived back on Earth. Their mission that was supposed to last for just eight days; it was dramatically extended after the spacecraft Butch and Suni had used to travel to the International Space Station suffered technical problems. Their journey home took 17 hours.
International politics often feels like unruly kids tussling in a playground...
French politician Raphaël Glucksmann made headlines for suggesting that the US should return the Statue of Liberty. His comments went viral and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt retaliated by reminding France "that it’s only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now.” .
A thief who stole a golden toi.
