The Mets hyperactive new general manager has helped kicked the rumor mill into high gear during his first trip to baseballs annual Winter Meetings this week. Rami Malek and Glenn Close took best drama acting awards. Alfonso CuarxF3;n won best director for Roma. Do today's entrepreneurs have the muscle memory for busts?
Scientists from the University at Buffalo study the explosive reaction between water and lava. Helen Mirras complex weavings reverberate; Magalie Comeaus monochromes have architectural allusions; and Jennifer Wynne Reevess work speaks in a voice shaped by Facebook.
A music video by Beyonce and Jay-Z set in the Louvre helped boost visitor numbers to a record 10.2 million last year, the most for any museum in history, the Louvre said on Thursday.
Clean-up efforts after a container ship spill off the Dutch coast are being hampered by rough weather although progress is being made, the Swiss based vessel's owner MSC said on Wednesday. Agenda, a news service owned by The Financial Times, published an interview with someone claiming to be Mr. Moonves shortly after he was fired as chief executive of CBS. The Occupy Wall Street protests has enlarged the spotlight on the financial district's questionable practices that have contributed to the country's economic downturn. At a panel discussion called, The Finance Crisis Lessons Learned from Canada and the Way Forward, at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., Robert Rubin, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, sat down with Chrystia Freeland and told her what he thinks of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
An international panel brought charges against business leaders and politicians. Now it has focused on President Jimmy Morales. He wants to shut it down. In Fault Lines, Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer argue for the importance of building bridges. Two shareholder lawsuits filed this week accused the board of Google parent Alphabet Inc of playing a direct role in covering up sexual misconduct claims against two former executives over the last five years. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro started a second term on Thursday, defying critics in the United States and Latin America who called him an illegitimate usurper of a nation where economic chaos has wrought a humanitarian crisis. Havovi Cooper reports
Nestled between icy peaks and lapped in frozen ocean waters, the tiny town of Tasiilaq in southeastern Greenland is home to some 2,000 people.