Leading European companies are facing spiralling funding costs in the bond markets as banks rein in lending, raising concerns about the impact on earnings. Over the past month European companies including National Grid and Daimler sold more than ...

1 Dec 2008

If Barack Obama wants to debrief Michelle Rhee, even he may have to take a number. The intrepid chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools is on the Dec. 8 Time cover, star of the unequivocally-titled "How To Fix America's Schools." It's ...

1 Dec 2008

She was a tall, graceful woman who greeted me with a delicate handshake. As we chatted in her sitting room and she poured tea, I found it difficult to believe that this woman was once at the centre of one of pop's most mysterious deaths. Janet Lawson ...

29 Nov 2008

Politicians in South Asian countries do not work for the people, they work for the benefit of cartoonists — this appeared the consensus at the first-ever South Asian Cartoonist’s Congress last weekend, in Kathmandu, which assembled together 40 ...

28 Nov 2008

Let's assume you're an adult male who has somehow avoided reading EW's 1,783 recent Twilight cover stories. You may be thinking, "Hey, this thing made a ton of money; maybe I should see it." You shouldn't. Twilight has no more to offer you than a ...

27 Nov 2008

MARION - The sights, sounds and smell of Christmas are permeating through the heart of Marion with the Festival of Trees under way. It's just an introduction to the Downtown Marion holiday celebration that culminates on Saturday, Dec. 6, with ...

27 Nov 2008