Katie Engelhart

Starbucks go home: plans for new Paris location spark uproar

The coffee juggernaut plans to open a café in Montmartre, to the dismay of locals

by Katie Engelhart - Friday, January 25, 2013
Argentina wants to claim the Falklands, but Britain’s not having it

UK says “hands off our islands”

by Katie Engelhart - Monday, January 21, 2013
Now is the time to mount a European army, leaders conclude

Decision comes amid threat of financial collapse in EU

by Katie Engelhart - Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Winston Churchill’s finest hours

The much-quoted British politician still makes headlines—47 years after his death

by Katie Engelhart - Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Time for ‘tu’ to go?

Some French speakers are bewildered by the loosening of long-held rules of grammatical etiquette

by Katie Engelhart - Thursday, December 6, 2012
Page three or bust: A bare boobs brouhaha in Britain

Topless models the focus of a national debate about decency in the press

by Katie Engelhart - Sunday, December 2, 2012
Britain goes to trial for colonial crimes

Kenyans look for financial compensation and a state apology for torture committed 60 years ago

by Katie Engelhart - Friday, October 19, 2012
Troubled times in Northern Ireland

The Belfast agreement was signed 14 years ago, but century-old resentments remain

by Katie Engelhart - Friday, September 28, 2012
In Bosnia, divided they stall

Sixteen years after the Dayton accords, Bosnia remains a failed state—with no will to set things right

by Katie Engelhart - Tuesday, December 20, 2011
On the ground in central London

The view from a flat above a dollar store on Camden Road

by Katie Engelhart - Thursday, August 11, 2011
The hollowed halls

How government cuts threaten Oxford and Cambridge’s unique teaching style

by Katie Engelhart - Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Maman Mia comes to Paris

Paris’s appetite for the pop classic may signal a larger shift

by Katie Engelhart - Thursday, November 25, 2010
The 'Superjuez' under fire

Crusading judge Baltasar Garzón faces charges for opening the wounds of the Fascist past

by Katie Engelhart - Thursday, July 22, 2010
What the bleep?

Pagers are slow, unreliable, and a reason for hospital deaths

by Katie Engelhart - Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Mexico’s drug cartels: Is Canada next?

They’re already ‘the greatest organized crime threat to the U.S.’

by Katie Engelhart - Monday, June 7, 2010
Selling soccer

The top 5 commercials in FIFA history

by Katie Engelhart - Thursday, June 3, 2010
The Braille crisis

In an audio-book era, do blind children still need to learn to read?

by Katie Engelhart - Thursday, May 6, 2010
A 12-year- old’s divorce

The case might result in a minimum age for Saudi marriages

by Katie Engelhart - Thursday, May 6, 2010
From the bottom up

How employees are turning their bosses on to sustainability

by Katie Engelhart - Thursday, April 29, 2010
These ain’t yer grandad’s bagpipes

Scotland’s traditional instrument has a new breed of fans—and a very different songbook

by Katie Engelhart - Thursday, April 22, 2010