En Route to Davos: Four Business Leaders Talk About Global Problem-solving
As they prepared for their trips to the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos, the leaders of four global corporations -- Ecolab, Ericsson, HP, and Western Union -- addressed my questions...
View ArticleCharles Krauthammer Admits What Senators Pushing Iran Sanctions Won't: They...
Backers of a controversial Senate bill to tighten sanctions on Iran in the midst of nuclear negotiations have consistently argued that their motivation is to strengthen the hand of the administration...
View ArticleU.S.-Iran: Two Countries in the Iron Grip of Conservatives
The United States and Iran are said to be sworn enemies. U.S. politicians, especially in the Congress are still trying their darndest to intensify the economic choke hold on Iran, even as the...
View ArticleTarget Credit Card Fraud Case Reportedly Leads To 2 Arrests At Texas Border,...
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A South Texas police chief says two Mexican citizens who were arrested at the border used account information stolen during the Target security breach to buy tens of thousands of...
View ArticleBest of 2014 Palm Springs International Film Festival
The recently completed 25th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival, with almost 200 features and most of the Academy Award submissions for foreign film, regularly supplies this writer with a...
View ArticleUC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks: 'Business Has To Step Up'
Nicholas Dirks, former Colombia Dean of Faculty and current Chancellor of University of California at Berkeley, sat down with HuffPost Live in Davos Wednesday to talk about the role of business in the...
View ArticleAetna CEO On Health Care System: 'The Patient Really Isn't A Person'
Mark Bertolini, the CEO of Aetna, a U.S. health care giant, shared two deeply personal stories with HuffPost Live at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday. The experiences, he said, inspired...
View ArticleIncredible Music Video Takes Our Photoshop-Obsessed Culture To Task
In a world obsessed with Photoshop, where necks being "thinned" and hips being made prepubescent is the hard-line standard, Hungarian singer-songwriter Boggie's music video for her song "Nouveau...
View ArticleNewspaper Websites Blocked In China After Reports About Chinese Leaders' Wealth
The Guardian and several news organizations had their websites blocked in China Wednesday after publishing stories revealing that China's president and other top political leaders have used offshore...
View ArticleHere's What Europe's Business Leaders Could Teach America
European corporate titans are calling on policy makers to do more to boost the region’s struggling economy. And unlike their counterparts in the U.S., they’re advocating government investments -- not...
View ArticleArgentines Must File Tax Report When Shopping Online
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentines buying online must now submit a statement to the tax agency before they can receive the goods, as the government seeks to make such purchases more expensive...
View ArticleMysterious Water Plumes Observed On Dwarf Planet Ceres
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A space telescope has detected signs of water on the largest object in the asteroid belt. A team led by the European Space Agency noticed water plumes spewing from two regions on...
View Article#AfricaSees Lazy Headlines -- and Should Call Them Out in 2014
UPDATE: I learned as I was posting this that the BBC's Komla Dumor died. Considering what you're about to read, this is a great loss. I was doing my daily news reading when I came across the headline,...
View ArticleThe Videos The Chinese Government Doesn't Want You To See
When the Chinese government mandated earlier this week that anyone who uploads an online video must also post their full name, the rationale seemed reasonable enough: "To prevent vulgar content, base...
View ArticleLeading Beyond Borders
Staring into a silent audience of workshop attendees at the close of our presentation in Bosnia, I began to worry. Did they not understand our question? Was our material not as good as I'd hoped? What...
View ArticleIsrael Reportedly Foils Al Qaeda Plot On U.S. Embassy
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Wednesday said it had foiled an "advanced" al-Qaida plan to carry out a suicide bombing on the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv and bomb other targets, in what analysts said was the...
View ArticleStrangers On Facebook Pay Medical Bills For Skydiver Who Survived 12,000-Foot...
Ben Cornick is a miracle man. The 31-year-old skydiver from the U.K. somehow survived a jump-gone-wrong on Jan. 14 in Fiji, when he plummeted about 12,000 feet and landed on a parked van, according to...
View ArticleMatt Damon On The 'Massive, Complex Problem' He's Working To Solve
Academy Award winner Matt Damon talked with HuffPost Live at Davos Wednesday about why he co-founded Water.org, a nonprofit organization working to provide communities across the globe with access to...
View ArticleAtlanta Mayor Kasim Reed Explains Why We Should 'Stop Worrying About' The...
During an interview with HuffPost Live at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed explained why he's urging business leaders to "stop worrying about"...
View ArticleUN Chief Ban Ki-Moon Faces Criticism For Syria Talks Debacle
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Ban Ki-moon made a rare effort at solo diplomacy when he invited Iran to join this week's Syria peace talks, but it backfired, raising questions about the effectiveness of a U.N....
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