Two new studies delve into the question of gender diversity in the workplace. Among the findings: businesswomen are more “fairy godmother” than “queen bee.”
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Worldcrunch LE FIGARO, LE MONDE, AFP (France) After weeks of relative silence, the Bo Xilai affair that has shaken China’s highest echelons of power has taken a new turn with the arrest of a French architect known to have close connections to the disgraced politician and his jailed wife. A spokeswoman for the French Embassy […]
Op-Ed: The posturing of recent days between Berlin and Paris had its logic. But now the moment has arrived to find the terms to strike a deal to save the euro that is what matters most to both countries. And beyond.
Even if he was considered a “pro-Europe” option, the Conservative victor in Greece’s Parliamentary election does not enjoy a shining reputation around the continent.
XI’AN UP CLOSE, 56.COM (China) As he was drilling a new well near his home in western China, a villager found a weirdly shaped, fungus-like object. Not knowing what to make of the discovery, he called the local TV station to come and have a look. The investigative program Xi’an Up Close quickly sent reporter […]
Essay: The old guard and Islamists are both manipulating the ideas and events of the Egyptian revolution. Revolutionaries themselves are squandering it with meaningless protests disconnected from the general population.
PAKISTAN TODAY, THE NEWS INTERNATIONAL (Pakistan) PESHAWAR – Ghazala Javed, a popular Pakistani singer was shot and killed along with her father near Peshawar in northwest Pakistan. According to initial medical examinations, Javed, still in her 20s, was shot by unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle, who fired a total of six bullets into her chest, […]
Analysis: The depreciation of the Russian ruble hurts the whole country, especially the poorer masses who don’t deal in dollars. And no, you can’t just blame it on foreigners.
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Burma To Free All Political Prisoners
THE IRRAWADDY (Burma) NAYPYIDAW – The Burmese government is planning to free all political prisoners by July, reports The Irrawaddy. As opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was in Oslo receiving the Nobel Prize she was awarded in 1991, Industry Minister Soe Thane, not to be outshined, announced that President Thein Sein had decided to […]
Worldcrunch CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY (Taiwan) BEIJING – One can never guess these days what will come out of Sina Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter. After last weekend’s sucessful launch of the Shenzhou 9, the Chinese spacecraft carrying China’s first female astronaut, Sina Weibo initiated a campaign called “Write a letter to the Shenzhou 9 […]
Analysis: Argentina has a new system to restrict citizens’ ability to purchase dollars. Is this an attempt to stabilize the Argentinian pesos or crack down on tax evaders?
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The Berlin ‘Forest Boy” Mystery Is Solved
The Forest Boy was neither from the forest, nor a boy. With patience and police work, the inexplicable scam was destined to be revealed.
Worldcrunch YEDIOT AHARONOT, HAARETZ (Israel), LE TEMPS (Switzerland), AL JAZEERA (Qatar) TEL AVIV – Amidst rising tensions over the issue of illegal immigration in Israel, more than 100 undocumented South Sudanese were sent back to their native country on Monday. Haaretz reported that the migrants, including 43 children, underwent a registration and identification process at […]
Worldcrunch OSUN DEFENDER, GUARDIAN, VANGUARD (Nigeria) KADUNA – A tense curfew was holding Monday across Nigeria after one of the worst days of violence between Muslims and Christians in memory as the nation continues to add new scars from sectarian violence. Boko Haram, a Jihadist group with links to al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility Monday for the […]
Worldcrunch CNN, DIE ZEIT, BLOOMBERG LONDON – World leaders have enthusiastically welcomed the narrow election victory of Greece’s pro-bailout New Democracy and Pasok parties –world markets, not so much. The center-right New Democracy and center-left Pasok parties won a combined 162 seats in Greece’s parliamentary elections, enough to form a majority in the 300-member parliament, […]
Worldcrunch AL MASRY AL YOUM (Egypt), AL ARABIYA (Saudi Arabia), THE GUARDIAN (UK) CAIRO – Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi claimed a narrow victory in the Egyptian presidential elections Monday, but pushback from his opponent and constitutional maneuvering from the Army leave Egypt’s democratic transition as fragile as ever. Morsi garnered 51.13 percent of the […]
Worldcrunch SINA NEWS, CHUTIAN DAILY (China) HUBEI – A few weeks ago, reports Sina News, a man showed up in front of the Hunan University female dormitory with a cortege of BMWs. The 11 cars were parked in two rows of five, while the lead car was parked next to a red carpet running from […]
From 7-Eleven convenience stores to the retail giants Muji and Uniqlo, Japanese brands are rapidly expanding across China, with 50,000 stores and counting.
Margarete Mitscherlich, who died this week at 94, was the Grande Dame of German psychoanalysis, having helped unravel Germany’s post-War zeitgeist of denial.
[dailymotion https://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/xrkm8a expand=1]Greeks ready for future-defining poll by reuters
When the UN and NGO’s stop funding, orphanages are forced to close or reduce their activities. Private citizens seize the opportunity to create sham orphanages where profit is the priority.
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Hey Guys: Legs Matter
As summer approaches, some men might be inclined to show off half their calves with those “7/8ths” Capri pants. Don’t. Just Don’t. And If you want to wear shorts, please follow these simple rules.
France’s First Lady Valérie Trierweiler’s troublesome tweet this week has been a public soap opera and the first real blow in the new presidency of her companion, François Hollande. But how much should a successful woman care about her man’s prof
Worldcrunch KOMMERSANT, GAZETA.RU (Russia) MOSCOW – Ksenia Sobachak is the daughter of St. Petersburg’s first post-Soviet mayor, a graduate of Moscow’s prestigious State University and a popular reality show host. She says that the country’s president is a friend of the family, Kommersant reports. Still, she has actively supported protests against that president, Vladimir Putin, […]
Essay: The UN’s inaugural 1992 Summit in Rio was full of hope, seen for years as a watershed in facing the dangers of ecological ruin. Now it is more clear than ever that economic priorities still rule.
Analysis: As Europe closes its borders, Morocco is becoming a new immigration destination for the rest of Africa. And like Europe, it is failing to address the issue intelligently.
Essay: A Swiss writer settles his score with Buddhism, which he calls “manipulative” and “brainwashing.” Facing reality is a much more *centered road to salvation.
Worldcrunch LE NOUVEL OBS (France) PARIS – At midnight Friday, European time, former French president Nicolas Sarkozy will become a citizen like any other again. The French Constitution protects any standing President from being taken to court. But now that Sarkozy has been bumped from office by François Hollande, he could face prosecution in several […]
In China, e-sellers harass consumers in some particularly disturbing ways if they’ve written negative reviews about their products.
Analysis: Greece or no Greece, the problem of the European single currency runs deeper. So no tricks — no Northern and Southern or National versions of the euro — can save it. Europe’s leaders must decide if they are playing for keeps.
A new book by German neurobiologist Martin Korte dispels the most common stereotypes about aging. He calls for a “radical reassessment of old age.”
Worldcrunch THE JAPAN TIMES, THE MAINICHI (Japan) TOKYO – Katsuya Takahashi, the last fugitive from the Aum Shirinkyo cult that launched a sarin attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, was arrested in the capital on Friday morning. The 54-year-old had been on the run for the past 17 years, until someone spotted him in […]
Worldcrunch CAIXIN MEDIA / SINA NEWS (China) CHINA TIMES (Taiwan) BEIJING – China officialy has its first female taikonaut, as “astronaut” is called in Chinese. Liu Yang (below) will be on board for Saturday’s launching of the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, scheduled for 18:37 local time, Chinese official media have confirmed. Liu, a native of Henan […]
Worldcrunch CADO IN PIEDI, DIRITTO DI POLEMICA (Italy) ROME – An economic crisis makes creative thinking an imperative. And in Italy, there are always political leaders out there thinking creatively. Here’s one recent thought from Pier Luigi Bersani, head of the center-left Democratic Party (PD): “I say that someone who pays their taxes has the […]
Worldcrunch AL MASRY AL YOUM (Egypt), BBC NEWS, AL JAZEERA CAIRO – The Egyptian capital remained tense Friday as pro-democracy activists and Islamists called for massive protests after a pair of judicial rulings by the country’s Supreme Constitutional Court have again put both civil order and longterm democracy at risk. One day ahead of the […]
L’ORIENT-LE JOUR (Lebanon) RIYADH – “We just want to enjoy the right to drive, like all women in the world…” This request is clear, and it is set to be made — once again — directly to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. One year after the launching of a campaign entitled “Women 2 Drive,” Saudi […]
China’s local family planning officials — and the country’s one-child policy — are under fire after a woman took an extreme and public response to a late-term forced abortion. Caixin speaks to the heartbroken would-be mother.
A trip to Tunis’s slums finds young Salafi Islamists who were at the vanguard of the Arab Spring, and are now set to take the fight to Syria to take down the ruling secularist regime.
Brazil, China, India and Russia were once the flavor of the month for investors, but this may be coming to an end as high inflation rates and slowing growth weigh on the respective national economies — and the world’s too.
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Élysée, The Daytime Drama Continues
Worldcrunch LIBERATION, LE PARISIEN (France) PARIS –All’s fair in love and politics, especially in France. Two days after First Lady Valérie Trierweiler’s morning tweet set French politics in a tizzy, President François Hollande’s former longtime partner Ségolène Royal has fired back. Royal granted the French newspaper Libération her first interview after Trierweiler took to the […]