Uncertainty over the global economic outlook and expectations for a weaker U.S. dollar should see gold prices reach eye-watering heights in the coming year, topping record highs set earlier on Tuesday.
The Demon Blogger of Fleet Street Nick Denton cast himself as a media outsider. That’s how he made it inside. By Michael Idov Published Sep 26, 2010 Painting by Nick Lepard Nick Denton has built a panopticon. From his living-room window, he can all but see his favorite table at Balthazar, and his favorite table…
UNDER THE VEIL BY ROYA HAKAKIAN Before the UN, EU, or White House draft a new proposal on Iran, they should master the details of the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the 43-year-old woman on death/stoning row. What makes Sakineh’s case worth the policymakers’ time is more than the usual human rights argument against befriending…
U.S. and many other nations at the U.N. General Assembly walk out in protest at Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s conspiracy theories over September 11 attacks
HONG KONG.- No other wine has captured the imagination of the Chinese wine connoisseur like Château Lafite-Rothschild. From the high-end restaurants that line Beijing’s Dongcheng District to Shanghai’s Three on the Bund Complex, Lafite is a name that inspires a hushed reverence. So it is fitting that on 29 October 2010, Sotheby’s Hong Kong is…
Candidate Obama swept the electoral college on a political platform of change, however President Obama has continued numerous policies implemented by his predecessor
Just days after the New Yorker published a profile of Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the New York Post posted a lengthy, exclusive interview with Tyler Winklevoss, who, together with his twin brother Cameron, has been fighting Facebook in court. The Post describes the Harvard University graduates (both Olympic rowers) as “gorgeous, lantern-jawed hunks”…
Victims of something much larger than ourselves,
Pakistani villagers say landowners breached levees to save their own property Several canal walls were breached during last month’s floods, and accusations are mounting that the ruptures were deliberate. But an irrigation chief says the surging Indus alone is to blame. Ghulam Qadir was getting ready for sleep one night early last month when a…