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The wives of the German and British ambassadors to the UN have released a video posted on YouTube, urging Asma al-Assad, Syria's first lady, to help end the bloodshed in her country.

Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President Obama’s pick, is the new President of the World Bank. 

Dr. Kim won the support of the 25-member Board of the World Bank on 16 April, following a first-ever open and unusually fierce public challenge from two other candidates from Nigeria and Colombia, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Jose Antonio Ocampo. 

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 I visited the newly-opened Uniqlo giant flagship store on 5th Avenue in New York, over the holidays. Simply put, it is to be experienced—shopper or not, fashionista or not.

The store on three levels take shopping to a new experience where fashion meets stage lighting, meets decor, animation, clothing, and, perhaps as Uniqlo would brand...

You might not guess who was voted the three most popular Women of the Year, in France.  I did not; and, you might be similarly surprised, at the results below.

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The picture spoke volumes, instantly re-broadcast as it hit the wires.  

The first American Secretary of state in almost fifty years (Secretary of state John Foster Dulles paid a visit to the country, then under British rule, in 1955), greeting the iconic opposition leader of Myanmar, or Burma. 

With Steve Jobs’ passing after a long battle with cancer, tributes have poured from across the globe, and countless viewpoints have been offered on what his legacy shall be.

“A visionary. A designer. A perfectionist. An exacting CEO. An entrepreneur. The man who redefined the Digital...

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the President of Liberia has won the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, it was announced today from Oslo, along with peace activist Leymah Gbowee, also from Liberia, and Tawakkol Karman of Yemen, a pro-democracy campaigner. 

Former IMF Head Dominique Strauss-Kahn on August 29 took a last bow, and bid farewell to the International Monetary Fund staff, in downtown Washington.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, or DSK as he is known, was forced to resign from his post in the aftermath of a highly publicized sexual assault case in a French-owned hotel in New York. The criminal case was ultimately dismissed by the city’s District Attorney, who argued that Nafissatou Diallo,...

The New Age of high-growth women entrepreneurs is about to transform economies across the globe and create millions of jobs. 

If this sounds like a grand statement, it is not, from listening to Sharon Vosmek. As CEO of Astia, the premier...

As July draws to a close, it has been all but a dull month, bringing its share of...