Saudi Arabian University Pays Big Bucks To Recruit Brazil's Best And Brightest Founded in 2009, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is vying to become one of the world's top universities. It is trying hard to attract students from overseas, notably Brazil, by showering them with perks that are unheard of elsewhere.
A Bombed Libyan Village Where NATO's "Collateral Damage" Has A Name And A Face More than 30 people were killed last August when NATO jets bombed the small Libyan town of Majer. NATO says it was a "legitimate" target. Villagers tell a very different story, of innocent victims, and pain made worse by NATO's refusal to admit its tragic error.
Turning Paper To Gold: Chinese Collectors Spark Postage Stamp Investment Boom Collecting stamps (like gold) used to be banned in China. No longer -- and Chinese collectors and investors may be creating a postage-stamp bubble.
Mexico's Drug War: Some Advice For The Next President Editorial: Whoever is "lucky" enough to win Mexico's upcoming presidential election will inherit a gruesome drug war that has already killed some 55,000. Just this week, 49 headless corpses turned up near the northern city of Monterrey. It's time for a change in strategy.
Giving The Chinese People A Bigger Slice Of The Economic Pie The fourth U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue yielded an important reform: Chinese state-owned firms must turn over a bigger chunk of their profits to the government to help finance public spending. U.S. companies are pleased -- and ordinary Chinese should be too.
Germany Says Yes To Growth, Yes To Rigor Op-ed: Germany has been accused of being anti-growth. But Germany's Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble argues that growth goes hand-in-hand with the budgetary discipline that Europe's biggest economy holds so dear.
Rio Police Arrest American -- 400 Caipirinhas Later -- For Unpaid Bar Tab A unpaid $7,000 tab at Copacabana's Porto Bay hotel was traced to a 53-year-old American, whose hotel bill showed 30 caipirinhas a day. Employees say the suspect was constantly surrounded by women... apparently also with drinks in hand.
Islamists & Necrophilia: How Western Media Fell For Bogus Islam-Bashing Tale The making of a hoax: how a story about a law allowing Egyptian men to have sex with their dead wives went from rumor to front page of the Daily Mail, the Huffington Post and Al-Arabiya.
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As one case regarding whistleblowers selling account information to German tax authorities is closed, Switzerland is faced with a new whistle-blowing scandal as two Swiss banks employees hand over client information to U.K. tax officials.
During the just concluded campaign, France’s incoming Socialist President François Hollande had vowed to push through gay marriage during his first year in office. Conservative Catholic groups are already gearing up for a fight.
Italy loves its indigenous red squirrels - so much so that it is waging a full on war, at a cost of millions of euros, to get rid of the American grey squirrels, which have invaded the northeastern region of Liguria.
Color expert Katrin Trautwein “could never live anywhere that has white walls.” Her three-room apartment in Uster, Switzerland is proof of that. But she rejects the “naïve” notion that yellow is necessarily sunny, or that beige is always bland.
The Pentagon plans to shutter its air base in Mannheim, Germany, meaning the property – which is significantly bigger than the city itself – will soon be on the market. The local government wants to incorporate the space, but fears it’ll end up in the hands of private developers.
An Air France male flight attendant is suing the airline for discrimination and violation of his dignity. The cause of turbulence: his cornrows, which the aviation company believes are undermining its glamorous image.
