Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

‘Two espressi plus the coffee ingested by the gentleman over there’ (he nodded in Lavater’s direction). The bill was produced and paid.

Locals and foreign visitors gathered to celebrate the mid-autumn festival in Pinghsi, Taiwan on Monday.

the day on which the Milan public prosecutor's office requested a fast-track trial for Silvio Berlusconi in the Rubygate case