Detroit Auto Companies Struggle With Union Profit-Sharing Idea
DETROIT (Bernie Woodall) - Over the past two years, Ford Motor Co has roared back from the brink of failure, won accolades for its gains in quality, posted its highest…
European Union Sending $14.5 Million In Food Aid To North Korea
BRUSSELS -- The European Union said Monday it will restart food aid to North Korea after the country's repressive communist regime agreed to an unprecedented monitoring system as it suffers…
China’s Women Buy Maseratis and Ferraris Like Italian Pastries
I totally missed this info nugget and in case you did, too: Chinese women buy three times more Maseratis and twice as many Ferraris than Western women do. A third…
Prince William And Kate Middleton Given Diamonds
Forbes Lifestyle has learned exclusively that the Northwest Territories government has presented Prince William and wife Kate Middleton with a Harry Winston diamond brooch and pair of cufflinks. The gifts,…
Meet Kate Middleton’s Go-To Designer ‘Daniella Helayel’
Call it the Kate Effect. Ever since Kate Middleton wore that silk navy dress at the announcement of her engagement with Prince William, the label Issa and its designer Daniella…
Inside Donald Trump’s New Jet
Donald Trump has just unveiled his newly refurbished $100 million Boeing 757, an aircraft that once belonged to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and what an overhaul it was. In fact,…
Jay-Z brings 40/40 restaurant franchise to London
(Reuters) - Rapper Jay-Z plans to bring his 40/40 restaurant and bar franchise to London next year in a deal which will team him up with England and Chelsea soccer…
Pushing Boundaries, Mixed-Race Artists Gain Notice
For years Heidi W. Durrow heard the refrain: editors wouldn’t publish her novel because readers couldn’t relate to a protagonist who was part black and part Danish. But when that…
Chinese Gem That Elevates Its Setting
GUANGZHOU, China — It says something about the state of architecture today that the most alluring opera house built anywhere in the world in decades is in a generic new…
Cy Twombly, Idiosyncratic Painter, Dies at 83
In a career that slyly subverted Abstract Expressionism, toyed briefly with Minimalism, seemed barely to acknowledge Pop Art and anticipated some of the concerns of Conceptualism, Mr. Twombly was a…
