For those who are forever on the move, this new gadget could help you to recall where you’ve been. The trackstick uses GPS technology to keep an accurate record of the carrier’s movements, including altitude, latitude and longitude. It can also link up with Google Earth to show your route, download pictures of where you’ve been and what you will have seen, or missed, along the way.   

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Fans of French cinema won’t want to miss MicMacs, the new, zany adventure from Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the director behind Amelie and The City of Lost Children. Our hero is Bazil (French superstar Dany Boon) who is accidentally shot in the head and finds his whole life turned upside down. Homeless, he is taken in by a group of eccentrics, and starts to plot with them to take down the source of all his woes: the weapons manufacturers responsible for the bullets that hit him and killed his father years before. MicMacs is out at selected cinemas now.

Those who hanker after West Africa should head down to the British Museum, where a new exhibition highlights the extraordinary sculpture work of the Kingdom of Ife. During the 12th-15th centuries, Ife (now south-west Nigeria) was a powerful, cosmopolitan and wealthy city-state, and its artists developed a refined and highly naturalistic sculptural tradition in stone, terracotta, brass and copper, creating a style unlike anything in Africa at the time.
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If you’re tired of living in the joint 25th best country to live in, the UK, it could be time to consider a move to the best, France. The US magazine International Living has released its annual Quality of Life index, and France has won praise across almost all categories, such as cost of living, leisure and culture, economy, environment, health and infrastructure. If you’re looking further afield for your new home, Australia came second and New Zealand fourth, with America in sixth place.
www1.internationalliving.com