Ludhiana... The process, ordered by the Election Commission of India ahead of a statewide revision in April, has hit a wall as families struggle to prove their decades-old residency and staff face mounting professional pressure ... .
Switzerland is a landlocked country with no direct access to the sea. Yet it is connected to four seas. What sounds paradoxical is a geographical peculiarity in Europe... .
There is a carnival group in Schwyz, central Switzerland, called the Japanesen (the Japanese), who sometimes seem a little strange – and not just to the Japanese ... .
Royal Court Upstairs, London. Cave people with very different perspectives meet on an elk hunt in Jack Nicholls’ savage but sweet play about love and violence among early humans ... ....
Other parts of Ireland have squares. Ulster, for reasons best known to itself, has diamonds, a word used there to describe the central marketplaces of towns or villages, or sometimes just crossroads in the middle of nowhere ... So is Coleraine’s ... .
The Chadron High School boys’ basketball team, which has shown lots of promise at times but has also been slowed by injuries, dropped a pair of games last week to talented teams ....
The SwissHighway Code is one of the most detailed and strict on the continent. Updated annually, it reflects some of the magnificent obsessions typical of the Swiss mentality and customs ... liberal, rational and fussy ... .