VIDEO: Twilight stars on red carpet for premiere

VIDEO: Twilight stars on red carpet for premiere


VIDEO: Twilight stars on red carpet for premiere

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 02:36 PM PST

Stars of the Twilight film series have been on the red carpet for the premiere of final installment, Breaking Dawn Part 2.


Cambodians held over eviction protest before Obama visit

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 11:08 PM PST

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Police in Cambodia arrested at least eight people on Thursday for painting messages on their homes near the capital's airport asking for help from U.S. President Barack Obama because they face eviction before he visits the country next week.


Leftist coca farmer presides over economic upswing in Bolivia

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 10:03 PM PST

EL ALTO, Bolivia (Reuters) - A chaotic sprawl high in the Andes, the Bolivian city of El Alto has a fearsome reputation for altitude sickness, poverty and violent uprisings that topple governments. No wonder many businesses stayed away. But years of economic growth and relative stability are changing attitudes as well as fortunes in one of Latin America's poorest and most volatile nations. Entrepreneurs are even waking up to El Alto's potential. ...


Obama damage

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 05:03 PM PST

- By Theo Vermaelen - America has decided to reappoint Barack Obama as President of the United States. This is quite surprising, considering a number of facts: a $5 trillion increase in government debt to $16 trillion (a higher per capita number than any European country, including Greece); an unemployment rate [...]


US or China? Clinton says Australia needn't choose

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 10:26 PM PST

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, meets with shipbuilders at the Techport Australia shipbuilding facility near Adelaide, Australia Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, Pool)U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton assured Australians they do not have to choose between the United States, their most important security ally, and China, their primary trading partner, as she ended a visit to the important Pacific ally Thursday.



Leftist coca farmer presides over economic upswing in Bolivia

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 10:03 PM PST

EL ALTO, Bolivia (Reuters) - A chaotic sprawl high in the Andes, the Bolivian city of El Alto has a fearsome reputation for altitude sickness, poverty and violent uprisings that topple governments. No wonder many businesses stayed away.


Big Egos And Narcissism Make Over 60 Horn Dogs Like Petraeus, Welch and Parsons Easy Prey

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 04:48 PM PST

The scandal surrounding Gen. David Petraeus shows the vulnerability that befalls men in positions of power in the public and the corporate sector who begin to believe their own press. Petraeus was very concerned about his legacy and let down his guard to a woman who was writing a biography about him. Jack Welch fell for a woman at the Harvard Business Review who was interviewing him for a feature story. Dick Parsons had an out of wedlock child with a woman similar in age to his own children and Former Presidential candidate John Edwards succumbed to his campaign videographer. Narcissism and a feeling of invincibility seems to cloud the judgment of these men at the top.


VIDEO: China leadership: Who is Xi Jinping?

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 04:00 PM PST

Xi Jinping has been confirmed as the man chosen to lead China for the next decade. John Sudworth looks at the man who is taking charge of one of the world's economic superpowers.


VIDEO: China leadership: Who is Xi Jinping?

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 04:00 PM PST

Xi Jinping has been confirmed as the man chosen to lead China for the next decade. John Sudworth looks at the man who is taking charge of one of the world's economic superpowers.


VIDEO: Key figures react to China's leader

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 07:59 PM PST

Vice-President Xi Jinping has been named head of the ruling Communist Party, and in effect China's new leader, replacing Hu Jintao, the outgoing president.


The 10 Keys of Excellent Customer Service

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 04:00 PM PST

Changes in Customer Interaction (Photo credit: Infopark AG) Words alone are very powerful and they have a big influence what your employees and customers think. If you don't set both of these groups' expectations up front, your company will never be able to excel in customer service. Focus on these 10 [...]


Israeli military, Gaza militants trade fire

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 10:57 PM PST

Palestinian men react at hospital after the body of Ahmed Jabari, head of the Hamas military wing, was brought, in Gaza City, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. The Israeli military said its assassination of the Hamas military commander marks the beginning of an operation against Gaza militants. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)Israeli aircraft, tanks and naval gunboats pounded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and rocket salvoes thudded into southern Israel on Thursday as terrified residents on both sides of the frontier holed up at their homes in anticipation of heavy fighting on the second day of Israel's offensive against the Palestinian militants.



Burma - An Unlikely Art Destination

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 03:29 PM PST

  Shwedagon Pagoda :Author: Ralf-André Lettau :Date: 15. Nov. 2005 :Notes: Shwedagon Pagoda :Source: Photo taken by Ralf-André Lettau (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Now that Burma, or Myanmar as the regime calls it, has officially opened its doors to American travelers, the Southeast Asian country is buzzing with activity. Since Secretary of State [...]


Obama defends Rice over Benghazi criticism

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 08:04 PM PST

US president tells Republicans to "go after him" rather than pick on UN ambassador over her handling of Benghazi attack.


I Hope Vernon Loeb Isn't Also Ghostwriting Paula Broadwell's Ph.D. Dissertation

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 03:17 PM PST

Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, then-commander of U.S. Central Command, explains his leadership strategy during a leadership and counterinsurgency symposium at the National Press Club in Washington D.C., Sept. 23, 2009. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I've hesitated writing anything about the Petraeus clusterfluster since I didn't think I had anything to contribute. But [...]


MBA Students Help Find Economic Solutions for the Nation's Capital

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 03:04 PM PST

When District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray enlisted a consortium of the city's business schools to create a five-year economic development strategy for the nation's capital, the idea seemed more novel than tactical. After all, it was an unusual assignment, especially because 16 first-year MBA students would do much of [...]


Xi Jinping takes helm of China amid reform calls

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 08:54 PM PST

From left, members of the new Politburo Standing Committee Zhang Dejiang, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang meet journalists in Beijing's Great Hall of the People Thursday Nov. 15, 2012. The seven-member Standing Committee, the inner circle of Chinese political power, was paraded in front of assembled media on the first day following the end of the 18th Communist Party Congress. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)Xi Jinping became China's new leader Thursday, assuming the top posts in the Communist Party and the powerful military in a political transition unbowed by scandals, a slower economy and public demands for reforms.



Anti-austerity marches turn violent across southern Europe

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 07:56 PM PST

MADRID/LISBON (Reuters) - Demonstrations turned violent in Spain and Portugal after millions took part in a mostly peaceful general strike on Wednesday in organized labor's biggest Europe-wide challenge to austerity policies since the debt crisis began three years ago.


A rapping Alabaman is now one of the most wanted terrorists

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 07:17 PM PST

A rapping, 28-year-old American from Alabama has been added to the FBI's list of Most Wanted Terrorists.Omar Shafik Hammami, otherwise known as Al-Amriki, or "the American," is believed to be in Somalia, where he has become a senior leader of theIslamistal-Shabab militia.

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Japan, N. Korea open bilateral talks on abductions

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 07:02 PM PST

Japan and North Korea have begun bilateral talks in Mongolia that Tokyo hopes will shed light on a series of decades-old abductions.