Other buyers have snapped up apartments on lower floors for prices that are almost as breathtaking. While their identities are not known, it is likely that many are the rootless superrich: Russian metals barons, Latin American tycoons, Arab sheiks and Asian billionaires. Ultraluxury h...
The People’s Recreation Community bookstore and several others on Hong Kong’s teeming shopping streets specialize in selling books and magazines banned by the Chinese government, mostly for their luridly damning accounts of party leaders, past and present. And at a time when many Chin...
He had used illegal drugs: Was it the demons of addiction? His rocky relationship with his fiancée? A wrenching deployment to earthquake-ravaged Haiti or the prospect of an impending tour in Afghanistan? As with most of suicides plaguing the military today, no one will know for sure. ...
The inclusion of observer states to the council came after a spirited debate at its biennial meeting and reflected the growing prominence of the issues facing the region. The council is made up of the eight Arctic nations: Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and ...
The inclusion of observer states to the council came after a spirited debate at its biennial meeting and reflected the growing prominence of the issues facing the region. The council is made up of the eight Arctic nations: Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and ...
But lately the trend has accelerated, in particular among Asian investors, who are taking advantage of the strength of their currencies and the environment of low interest rates to increase their investment in these physical assets. They are not the only ones. According to the Soverei...
FIFA-recognised referee Ali Sabbagh and assistants Ali Eid and Abdallah Taleb had allegedly agreed to influence the result of the April 3 match between Singapore's Tampines Rovers and East Bengal of India, and were hastily replaced hours before kick-off by the AFC. The three, who deny...
The economic significance of this roller coaster was basically nil. But the furor over bitcoin was a useful lesson in the ways people misunderstand money — and in particular how they are misled by the desire to divorce the value of money from the society it serves. What is bitcoin ? I...
The economic significance of this roller coaster was basically nil. But the furor over bitcoin was a useful lesson in the ways people misunderstand money — and in particular how they are misled by the desire to divorce the value of money from the society it serves. What is bitcoin ? I...
The economic significance of this roller coaster was basically nil. But the furor over bitcoin was a useful lesson in the ways people misunderstand money — and in particular how they are misled by the desire to divorce the value of money from the society it serves. What is bitcoin ? I...
The new effort is being led by Gen. Martin E. Dempsey , the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as part of a broad overhaul of training and development programs for generals and admirals. It will include new courses to train the security detail, executive staffs and even the spouse...
When Mr. Grinberg, now a lawyer in the financial institutions group of the Manhattan law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell, first learned about bitcoins, they were selling for 10 cents. Now, after the latest price surge that began in January, the cost of a bitcoin on an exchange that convert...
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The move — a first in the three-year-old European financial crisis — raised questions about whether bank runs could be set off elsewhere in the euro zone. Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the president of the group of euro area ministers, declined early Saturday to rule out taxes on depositors in...
BRUSSELS — Cyprus reached a long-awaited bailout agreement early Saturday that puts some of the burden for shoring up the island’s beleaguered economy on its bank depositors. The most contentious issue in months of negotiations was whether to force Cypriot depositors to take losses in...
The death of Shane Todd, whose body was found in his Singapore apartment hours after his last day working for a government research agency there, has threatened to undermine the cordial relations between the United States and Singapore. The Singaporean foreign minister, K. Shanmugam, ...
The death of Shane Todd, whose body was found in his Singapore apartment hours after his last day working for a government research agency there, has threatened to undermine the cordial relations between the United States and Singapore. The Singaporean foreign minister, K. Shanmugam, ...
The death of Shane Todd, whose body was found in his Singapore apartment hours after his last day working for a government research agency there, has threatened to undermine the cordial relations between the United States and Singapore. The Singaporean foreign minister, K. Shanmugam, ...
The death of Shane Todd, whose body was found in his Singapore apartment hours after his last day working for a government research agency there, has threatened to undermine the cordial relations between the United States and Singapore. The Singaporean foreign minister, K. Shanmugam, ...
Men’s leather wallets and billfolds were the company’s original line of business. At Mrs. Cahn’s suggestion, her husband began producing a line of women’s handbags in the early 1960s at their small West 34th Street factory, working with a thicker yet flexible kind of cowhide often use...
Men’s leather wallets and billfolds were the company’s original line of business. At Mrs. Cahn’s suggestion, her husband began producing a line of women’s handbags in the early 1960s at their small West 34th Street factory, working with a thicker yet flexible kind of cowhide often use...
Men’s leather wallets and billfolds were the company’s original line of business. At Mrs. Cahn’s suggestion, her husband began producing a line of women’s handbags in the early 1960s at their small West 34th Street factory, working with a thicker yet flexible kind of cowhide often use...
Men’s leather wallets and billfolds were the company’s original line of business. At Mrs. Cahn’s suggestion, her husband began producing a line of women’s handbags in the early 1960s at their small West 34th Street factory, working with a thicker yet flexible kind of cowhide often use...
Take Saint Laurent . One of the first things the new designer, Hedi Slimane, did was to remove “Yves” from the label, thereby severing a symbolic connection to the founder, and everything he stood for, like good taste and feminine power. But it was also a test of the label’s enduring ...
Take Saint Laurent . One of the first things the new designer, Hedi Slimane, did was to remove “Yves” from the label, thereby severing a symbolic connection to the founder, and everything he stood for, like good taste and feminine power. But it was also a test of the label’s enduring ...
Until recently, anyone with two fingers and a smartphone was subjected to this kind of self-torture. But a new set of apps and Web sites created to ease the pain of breakups may be changing that. One is Killswitch, a mobile app that promises to “seamlessly and discreetly remove all tr...
Take Saint Laurent . One of the first things the new designer, Hedi Slimane, did was to remove “Yves” from the label, thereby severing a symbolic connection to the founder, and everything he stood for, like good taste and feminine power. But it was also a test of the label’s enduring ...
Take Saint Laurent . One of the first things the new designer, Hedi Slimane, did was to remove “Yves” from the label, thereby severing a symbolic connection to the founder, and everything he stood for, like good taste and feminine power. But it was also a test of the label’s enduring ...
Take Saint Laurent . One of the first things the new designer, Hedi Slimane, did was to remove “Yves” from the label, thereby severing a symbolic connection to the founder, and everything he stood for, like good taste and feminine power. But it was also a test of the label’s enduring ...
You sometimes think, at the bleary end of a runway season, that fashion would be better off if companies didn’t have labels to sell. Take Saint Laurent . One of the first things the new designer, Hedi Slimane, did was to remove “Yves” from the label, thereby severing a symbolic connec...
