“The visit was kept a secret due to security issues,” a relative said on condition of anonymity after Yousafzai was greeted at Benazir Bhutto International Airport in Islamabad by government and security officials. She was taken to a hotel under high security, the relative said. Yousafzai will reunite with all of her family in […]

HANOI (Reuters) – A crackdown on corruption in Vietnam unnerved some foreign investors when it intensified last year, but they are now getting much more sanguine about it and some say the business climate is improving as a result. While the campaign by the government of Communist party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has slowed […]

Next weekend, thousands of music lovers from all across Texas will gather in Austin to enjoy R&B, hip-hop and rap performances from an impressive lineup of artists. The Urban Music Festival celebrates Afrocentric culture and music, drawing huge crowds each year. The festival was founded 13 years ago on the heels of Austin’s Quality of Life […]

  – New public-private partnerships in Argentina, Australia, Egypt, France, Nigeria, Russia and Ukraine – Part of multi-year, $50 million commitment to promote healthy lifestyles and address obesity DEERFIELD, Ill., Mar. 28 /CSRwire/ – (GlobeNewswire) – The Mondelēz International Foundation today announced the launch of healthy lifestyle programs aimed at bringing nutrition education, active play and fresh […]

Ulta Beauty Inc (NASDAQ:ULTA) was the retailer that could do no wrong. It had a business that seemed insulated against the progress made by Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) and it had comparable-store sales results that most companies would die for. So why then, is Ulta stock down about 35% from its 52-week high? Home run after home run eventually […]

Scientists in Australia have discovered the remains of a mummy in a 2,500-year-old coffin that was previously classified as empty. The coffin, acquired by the University of Sydney 150 years ago, was left untouched in its Nicholson Museum and was never studied. But when researchers removed the lid to the coffin late last year, they […]

NEW YORK and SAN DIEGO, March 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Generali Global Assistance’s Travel Insurance division (“the Company), has received the Gold Award for Travel Insurance Company by consumer product review site Top Ten Reviews. The Gold Award is given to the number one ranked product in the category. Top Ten Reviews is a product review site, which has been in operation […]

China’s central bank realized the first of what will likely be many Blockchain implementations in the form of the Blockchain Registry Open Platform (BROP), released Monday, March 26. Unveiled at the Global Financial Science and Technology Summit in the city of Hangzhou, BROP is an open Blockchain protocol developed by the Zhongchao Blockchain Research Institute. […]

As for adventuring, I’d rate myself medium-high on the risk scale. I once travelled to Africa not knowing a soul, and I’ve trudged shin-deep in mud through cow-filled fields in Scotland to get to a music festival. Those were good times – the kind where youth, possibility and the absence of fear of running mascara […]

VARNA, Bulgaria (Reuters) – European Union leaders said talks with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday offered no answers to a long list of concerns including over Turkey’s intervention in Syria and the jailing of journalists at home. At a summit that host Bulgaria described as “charged with great tension”, the bloc vowed to keep […]