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RETROSPECTIVE FIFI AWARDS ARABIA 2013 NOMINATIONS FIFI AWARDS ARABIA 2013 Jury session in Grasse On October 30th the winners of the FIFI AWARDS ARABIA 2013 were announced and a gala prize award ceremony was held at the C...

Greg Waters feels unprepared for the New York Marathon, but there's no way the JPMorgan executive director is going to miss this opportunity to run his first marathon. "There is going to be something a bit more special ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Pirates hijacking ships off the Horn of Africa and Somalia from 2005 to 2012 garnered well over a quarter of a billion U.S. dollars in ransom and used the money for cr...

A NEW study from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) will land on the desks of policymakers around the world next month. It will make sobering reading for political leaders in many countries. In Swe...

What does billionaire investor Mark Cuban hate more than anything else? On ABC's reality pitch show "Shark Tank," nothing infuriates Cuban more than what he calls "want-repreneurs" — adventurous spirits who like to com...

A Bourdeaux fit for Lord Grantham, at Mr. Carson prices

Now that it's November, movie season is about to get in full swing again.  Get ready for big name sequels, bigger stars (Jennifer Lawrence anyone?) and a queue of Oscar films (calling Martin Scorsese and David O. Russel...

Across the globe, more than 1.5 billion people live in energy poverty, a dangerous and oppressive condition that a group of innovators hopes to wipe out with a simple lantern. MPOWERD Inc. -- a company that develops and ...

As the stock markets climb, is your gut telling you to get out before a possible correction? Pay more attention to your solid retirement investment plan than your emotions, says Robert Powell. But the best thing to do is...

Last week Starbucks opened a Teavana tea bar in New York City, the first step towards creating what it hopes will be a counterpoint to its enormously successful coffee locations. Before being bought by Starbucks last yea...

Vatican to Survey Catholics' Views on Gay Marriage

"Fail fast" has become standard entrepreneurial advice. Startups and small businesses are told they shouldn't worry about messing up, because it's better to quickly realize that something's not working and move on.  Tha...

"Your job as a leader is to be right at the end of the meeting," says the Honeywell chairman and C.E.O., "not at the beginning."     

A company called AnchorFree makes a product called HotSpot Shield, and it's incredibly handy for members of particularly fetishized groups (like amputees) who want to protect themselves online. HotSpot Shield blocks you...

["What is it like to move to England from the United States?" Dawn Rutherford Marchant let us republish her answer to this question from Quora.] It is hard.  Just because people speak English, do not be deceived.  It i...

For all the debate on the effects of the tea party's and the Republican party's march to the far right at the federal level, it's their impact at the state level that will probably be with us the longest.

SPECIAL FROM Grandparents.com Whether you work full-time, part-time or are basking in the glow of retirement, making extra money - especially if it involves something you enjoy doing anyway - can be simpler and more rewa...

Airline passengers, Airbus has got your back--and the rest of you. Citing research conducted for the company by the London Sleep Centre, Airbus is proposing that an 18-in wide seat (45.72 cm) become the standard for long...

Members of a Bay Area Rapid Transit labor union that went out on strike twice in recent months overwhelmingly ratified a contract agreement that officials said will increase pay and lead to improved safety conditions.

Poker's rise in popularity has helped Michigan's charities and civic groups stay afloat at a time of dwindling donations from elsewhere.

Banks will have to show they can survive the demise of a trading partner or a plunge in value of high-risk business loans

The coming end of daylight saving time means the sun will set long before 5 p.m., sending many more people home from work in the dark each evening. One other odd thing that happens when the clocks are turned back: Bars c...