We witness today, at the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century, one of the most astonishing phenomena of the digital era: the consolidation of the social network, and even more, the empowerment of the worldwide youth thanks to these tools.
The German government may offer an aid package to Greece and other debt-ridden European nations in an effort to stave off the default concerns that have stunted global markets, according to reports.
SI.com's writers will preview each event from the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Here's Alexander Wolff's look ahead to speedskating.
The death of a British soldier on an explosives-clearing operation in Afghanistan has pushed the British death toll there past that of the 1982 Falklands War, the Ministry of Defence announced Tuesday.
"Would you marry the same person again?" could be a dangerous question.
The UK scientist at the center of a controversy surrounding e-mails leaked from a leading UK climate research unit has admitted the strain of the affair led him to consider suicide.
The mega yacht business has been slow since the economy soured, but at least one luxury shipbuilder appears to be betting on a rebound.
SI.com's writers will preview each event from the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Here's Brian Cazeneuve's look ahead to biathlon.
Iran has complained to Britain's Oxford University over a scholarship program in memory of Neda Agha-Soltan, the young woman whose on-camera death during a protests earlier this year made her a global icon of Iranian opposition.
The dollar weakened against the euro Monday, but held firm against other major currencies, as concerns about Greece's fiscal health eased slightly.
We witness today, at the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century, one of the most astonishing phenomena of the digital era: the consolidation of the social network, and even more, the empowerment of the worldwide youth thanks to these tools.
The German government may offer an aid package to Greece and other debt-ridden European nations in an effort to stave off the default concerns that have stunted global markets, according to reports.
SI.com's writers will preview each event from the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Here's Alexander Wolff's look ahead to speedskating.
The death of a British soldier on an explosives-clearing operation in Afghanistan has pushed the British death toll there past that of the 1982 Falklands War, the Ministry of Defence announced Tuesday.
"Would you marry the same person again?" could be a dangerous question.
The UK scientist at the center of a controversy surrounding e-mails leaked from a leading UK climate research unit has admitted the strain of the affair led him to consider suicide.
The mega yacht business has been slow since the economy soured, but at least one luxury shipbuilder appears to be betting on a rebound.
SI.com's writers will preview each event from the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Here's Brian Cazeneuve's look ahead to biathlon.
Iran has complained to Britain's Oxford University over a scholarship program in memory of Neda Agha-Soltan, the young woman whose on-camera death during a protests earlier this year made her a global icon of Iranian opposition.
The dollar weakened against the euro Monday, but held firm against other major currencies, as concerns about Greece's fiscal health eased slightly.
A proposed partnership between the French government and Google is stoking fears in France that the country's literary treasures will fall under commercial control of a U.S. technology company.
On the streets of Manila, flight attendant Lesly succinctly sums up her view on life: "Being positive and optimistic -- it's the only way. If you think too deeply about all the problems here, it'll only get you down and stop you from doing anything -- or make you want to leave."
The price of power has always been a political issue -- but now campaigners argue it could be the key to starting a green energy revolution.
Police in Portugal this week seized more than 3,000 pounds of explosives from a house used by the Basque separatist group ETA, the Spanish Interior Ministry said Saturday.
Four British Parliamentarians are facing charges over false expense claims totaling more than $93,000 over the past six years, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service announced.
Bad boys. No, we haven't been holed up in Castle Limey watching tepid Will Smith action movies from the mid-1990s. Instead, we've been musing about the bad boys who are the subjects of the two biggest stories that have hit the headlines in the last couple of weeks.
Bets against the fiscally unfit are multiplying, and there's no telling where they will stop.
Social networking may be one of the biggest phenomenons of the 21st century, but for some denizens of the Web, it's a way to get in touch with the past.
U.S. stocks were set for a flat start on Friday, buoyed after the release of an important job market report, even as the rest of the world endured a selloff.
International stock markets tumbled Friday over concerns about the debt crisis in several European nations.
At Harrod's department store in London, you can pick up a South African Krugerrand or a 27-pound gold bar along with a sweater and bed linens. Gold is sold like candy out of train station vending machines in Germany. Indian households are borrowing against jewelry the way Americans did not so long ago against their homes. And U.S. investors poured $15 billion into gold funds in 2009, as they were pulling money out of stock portfolios.
A U.S. military Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Germany on Wednesday, killing three crew members, U.S. Army public affairs specialist Bruce Anderson said.
SI.com's writers will preview each event from the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Here's Andrew Lawrence's look ahead to curling.
I wear the burqa for the simple reason that I am a Muslim and the Koran says that I must wear the full veil in order to be modest.
Iran's atomic energy chief said Wednesday that no deal has been struck to export uranium for enrichment abroad, a demand of Western nations worried that Tehran plans to use its program to build nuclear weapons.
As France moves closer to a partial ban on the burqa, a leading European lawmaker declared Wednesday that the full Muslim veil is a symbol of political Islam and has no place in Europe.
Two ethnic Uyghur brothers from China will be released from Guantanamo prison and transferred to Switzerland to live, according to the Uyghur American Association.
France has denied citizenship to a man because he allegedly forced his wife to wear a full Islamic veil, the French immigration minister said in a statement Wednesday.
A U.S.-built, unmanned mini-submarine on an ocean research mission has successfully crossed the North Atlantic by gliding on underwater currents, U.S. officials said Wednesday in Spain, where they came to retrieve it.
I am at risk of rectal cancer because of my orientation and not able to find reliable info. Where can I go to actually get the true information about this? And where can I go to get free publications? Any info would be great, as I am hearing that this is on the rise.
So much for the theory of "decoupling," the hopeful notion held just a few weeks ago that the rest of the world was robust enough to ride out a U.S. domestic crisis.
Averting what could have been another gas crisis across Europe, Russia and Ukraine have fixed a price on natural gas for 2008 while Kiev has promised to pay its 2007 gas debts.
New research finds Tamiflu-resistant strains of the most common flu virus popping up all over the world
A strip of honey-colored flypaper spirals down from a thumbtack that anchors its now-empty canister. Speckled with lifeless flies, the canister swings each time the violin bow pokes it.
Stocks posted slim gains in thin trade Tuesday after a disappointing report on holiday retail sales.
Wall Street struggled Tuesday as stocks fought for gains after surging but ultimately disappointing sales over the Christmas weekend.
Russia's state-owned natural gas monopoly Gazprom has suspended the flow of natural gas to Ukraine after Ukrainian officials refused to sign a new gas-price agreement.
It is a time to take a breath and reflect.
Feeling overworked? You now have a national movement to share your pain. A coalition of work-and-family organizations has designated Oct. 24 as Take Back Your Time Day. They hope Americans will tak...
Is America headed for a recession? It better not be, because for the rest of the world, the resilient growth here and in Europe is just about all that's been keeping things from going from bad to m...
Most American investors are in denial about what is coming: The global deflationary wave let loose by the Asian financial crisis last year has started rolling around the world to weaken Japan even ...
The American economy is striding into its 49th month of expansion, coming off a year in which it grew 4.1%, unemployment fell to 5.4%, and profits, investment, and exports all boomed. Americans nev...
Most cities in Western Europe and North America-- including London, Montreal, and West Berlin--ripped up their trolley tracks in the 1950s and 1960s to make way for cars and buses. But a new genera...
GLOBALIZATION. Aren't we sick of it? Haven't we heard enough already about consumers from Alabama to Zambia wearing Levi's and Nikes and sweaters from Benetton, drinking Coke and Pepsi, eating Big ...
You don't have to be Jules Verne to believe that travel would be broadening for your portfolio. While even optimists expect a gain of no more than 3.5% for the U.S. gross domestic product during Pr...
The mix of citizens in developed countries is tilting toward the old. For youth, look to the Third World, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, where families average six-plus children each (see chart)....
CALL IT the new New Europe. In a breathtaking rendezvous on the eve of 1992, the drive for a unified market has converged with the fall of communism to make Europe a far bigger and more competitive...
Allied bombing in World War II couldn't destroy Konigsberg when it was part of Germany, and neither could 46 years of urban planning by the Soviets, who got hold of the city in 1945 and renamed it ...
A NERVOUS SOBRIETY has set in across Eastern Europe. Two years after the Iron Curtain came crashing down, the region's experiments with capitalism might, to some eyes, seem an excellent advertiseme...
Europeans are worried that they will soon face a new Soviet menace: a flood of refugees. This winter, living conditions in the U.S.S.R. are sure to deteriorate and food will be scarce -- the nation...
TWICE BURNED in the 1970s, Western Europe and Japan have spent the past decade getting ready for another oil shock. High taxes on heating oil and gasoline, among other measures, have reduced oil's ...
Does the dollar's recent surge against the yen awaken bad memories? Put your fears to rest. It is nowhere near its 1985 peak and is likely to fall in the months ahead. The merchandise trade deficit...
AGE HEALTHFULLY, retire earlier, and bank on ever richer government benefits. For nearly 50 years, political leaders in North America, Japan, and Europe have promised their citizens varying version...
There is a tendency in the Western world to talk about only one region at a time. Ten years ago, people talked about Latin America as a great opportunity. Now everyone talks about Eastern Europe. I...
''Bold and brilliant,'' trumpeted Chicago philosopher Allan Bloom when his former student Francis Fukuyama published ''The End of History?'' in the neoconservative journal The National Interest las...
Are you up to the challenge? Beware. Leading the vanguard of global investors doesn't necessarily make for restful nights. When Swedish ball-bearing maker SKF plunged into Russia, its dream of prof...
The world is entering unknown territory. For two out of three living Americans -- and about as many Russians and Europeans -- the bipolar system forged by the cold war is all they have ever known. ...
WITH THE FALL of the Wall and the lifting of the Curtain, Western managers and investors must rethink their strategies for doing business in Europe in the 1990s. Suddenly the Old World has gained a...
AMERICA'S GROWING environmental concern has been matched, and in many ways exceeded, by the stunning rise of the so-called Green movement in Western Europe. Once thought of as little more than busi...
Move over, Karl Marx. Hungary's premier university has dropped Das Kapital from its required reading list. And, this month, the reform-minded Magyars are launching the East bloc's first MBA program...
ALL IS VANITY, said the Preacher, and there is nothing new under the sun. Well, maybe there wasn't in the time of King Solomon, and anyway the author of Ecclesiastes was pondering the human conditi...
THINKING about going global? Friend, you're too late. The train has already left. Today the competition for goods, services, and ideas pays no respects to national borders or the old geopolitical d...
The U.S. could gain more jobs through exports than it loses because of imports. Richard Belous, a labor economist at the Conference Board, and Andrew Wyckoff, an economic analyst at the U.S. Office...
The U.S. trade dispute with Western Europe could bring bellyaches to lovers of imported foods and spirits. In the event that President Reagan makes good on his threat to slap a 200% tariff on more ...
CONSUMERS already live in a global village. Young Europeans and Americans alike sport Benetton sweaters made in Italy, covet Japanese compact disk players, and haunt remarkably similar hangouts. Ke...
U.S. farmers' prospects continue to dim under the curse of a plentiful harvest, and their problems have spread to the Farm Credit System, the largest agricultural lender, which may need a federal b...
A MAJOR PLUNGE in oil prices -- the break to $20 a barrel or less that oil users have been dreaming about for several years -- could be upon us no matter what is said and done at OPEC's Vienna meet...
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