Report: Spies Are Collecting Webcam Images In Bulk
Britain's surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents...
View ArticleGisele Bundchen Walks Balenciaga Show In Paris
She may be the highest-earning model in the world, but Gisele Bundchen is not above walking runways. At least, not when it comes to her friend Alexander Wang's Balenciaga show at Paris Fashion Week....
View ArticleWatch Jean-Claude Van Damme Perform His Split Stunt.. In Zero Gravity
Is Jean-Claude Van Damme going for "The Most Epic Man of the Year" award? He's already proved himself in the martial arts world, the movie industry and even in commercials when he did the epic splits...
View ArticleU.S. Aims To Combat Anti-Gay Laws Around The World: John Kerry
WASHINGTON (AP) — Troubled by an anti-gay movement in Uganda and across much of the world, the U.S. is launching a new effort to combat what Secretary of State John Kerry described Wednesday as a...
View ArticleOlympic Skier Maria Komissarova Can't Feel Anything From Waist Down After Injury
Russian Olympic freestyle skier Maria Komissarova says she can’t feel anything from the waist down. The devastating announcement comes after she broke her spine during a training incident on Feb. 15 at...
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Venezuelan Crisis: Resentment, Struggle and a Way Forward
Co-authored by Alvaro Salas and Antonio J. Henríquez García of Cornell University. Biographies listed below. The current crisis of Venezuela is, as anyone might expect, much more complex than a simple...
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Love Is a Right, Hate Is a Crime
Over the weekend, Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni signed into law a bill that criminalizes being gay. Moreover, it criminalizes the "promotion of homosexuality," which will directly impact human...
View ArticleA Senseless Massacre of Innocents in Nigeria
When courageous Malala Yousafzai was shot, 5 million men, women and children signed petitions calling for every girl in Pakistan to have the chance to go school. But this week the world remained silent...
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Princess Diana Had A Vogue Makeover Before She Became A Style Icon, Says...
It's like a scene out of "Funny Face" or "The Devil Wears Prada" -- a simple girl gets a full-on Vogue makeover, complete with racks of high-fashion clothing hand-picked by the magazine's top stylists....
View ArticleEric Holder Hospitalized After Faintness, Shortness Of Breath
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was hospitalized Thursday after experiencing faintness and shortness of breath. Holder is in "good condition" and is "alert" and talking with his doctors, Justice...
View ArticleEurope Needs A Road Map -- Or It Will Go Backwards
Nicolas Berggruen, co-publisher, The WorldPost. This article is adapted from Mr. Berggruen's presentation to the Council on the Future of Europe in Madrid on Feb. 28. MADRID -- Since the 2008 financial...
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Half the Sky: Moving Mountains
It's never fun to talk about your failures, but if there's anything that can be agreed on about my memoir, Wish You Happy Forever, it is honest. And quite honestly, our efforts to help the children of...
View ArticlePolitician Caught Looking At Sexy Pics During Meeting
We get it, meetings can be boring. Hong Kong lawmaker Albert Ho Chun-yan was caught looking at some R-rated pictures of models during a budget session on Wednesday, the AFP reported. A photographer was...
View ArticleSocial Media: Enemy of the State or Power to the People?
Pierre Omidyar is the founder and chairman of eBay; and publisher and CEO of First Look Media. At a recent series of events in Beijing hosted by the Berggruen Institute, I was asked to speak about...
View ArticleFrench Zoo Unveils Rare Lion Cubs To 'Awws' Around The World (VIDEO)
BESANCON, France (AP) — Three Asiatic lion cubs are making their debut at a zoo in eastern France, raising slim hopes for one of the world's rarest species. The Besancon (beuz-an-sohn) zoo held off...
View ArticlePuerto Rico To Sell $3.5 Billion In Bonds
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico's Senate approved a bill Thursday that authorizes the U.S. territory to sell up to $3.5 billion in bonds as it prepares to re-enter the market next month with a...
View ArticleExpelled China Professor Warns US Universities
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Chinese economist and champion of free speech who was recently expelled from Peking University said Thursday American colleges are putting their academic principles at risk by...
View ArticleVenezuela on the Brink
"Even in tragedy, Latin America can't compete," a cynical friend told me. He was referring to the fact that the region's poverty is not as grim as Africa's, armed conflicts not as threatening as Asia's...
View ArticleDangerous Game
Nobody can regret the departure of a president who had shown his willingness to shoot protesters, and that of another, who had brought back to life the most hostile laws against women on record in his...
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The Other Hundred: The Non-Rich, Non-Celebrity List
"The Other Hundred" is a unique photo book project aimed as a counterpoint to the Forbes 100 and other media rich lists by telling the stories of people around the world who are not rich but whose...
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