Section: Business Insider (USA)
A Plus-Sized Woman Asked Designers Around The World To Make Her ‘Beautiful’ Using Photoshop
Last June, freelance journalist Esther Honig asked artists from 19 countries around the world to Photoshop her face to make her “beautiful.” Shortly afterwards, her close college friend Priscilla Yuki Wilson released her own experiment on biracial beauty. Inspired by the efforts of these two women, Marie Southard Ospina decided to do a similar...
President Obama Is About To Address The Sony Hack
President Barack Obama held his year-end press conference on Friday afternoon. This will likely be the first time the president will weigh in on the Sony hack, which the FBI linked to North Korea on Friday morning. Obama is also expected to discuss the new spending bill and his Cuba policy shift. He began by characterizing the year as a...
The 50 Most Unforgettable Photos Of 2014
This was a tumultuous year. From revolution and war in Ukraine, Syria, and Israel to social unrest across the US and the Ebola outbreak in Africa, 2014 was anything but quiet. And, as the old adage goes, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” We compiled the most unforgettable images from the past twelve months, captured by...
Take Goldman Sachs’ Christmas Crossword And Find Out How Well You Remember 2014
How well do you remember the most important financial and economic events of 2014? You’ve got the chance to find out now: Goldman Sachs’ end-of-year crossword just came out, and it’s great, again. Last year’s effort by Goldman was described as “the nerdiest crossword puzzle of all time”. Here’s hoping...
The 10 Most Important Things In The World Right Now
Good morning! Here’s what you need to know for Friday. 1. Eight children died Friday morning in a mass stabbing in Australia. 2. The United Nations has requested more than $8.4 billion for 2015 to help nearly 18 million people affected by the war in Syria. 3. British police are looking into the murders of three young boys as part of an...
10 Things You Need To Know Before European Markets Open
Good morning! Here’s what you need to know in markets today. The Dow Had Its Best Day In Three Years. For the second day in a row, stocks had their best day of the year. After a huge rally on Wednesday, stocks topped these gains on Thursday, with the Dow gaining more than 400 points. This was the biggest two-day rally for stocks since 2011...
Asian markets extend gains after Fed statement
Hong Kong (AFP) – Asian markets rallied for a second straight session Friday, boosted by another strong performance on Wall Street while renewed confidence helped push the dollar back towards the 100 yen mark.Tokyo jumped 1.59 percent thanks to the weaker yen, while Sydney climbed 1.66 percent, Seoul rose 1.29 percent and Hong Kong added...
EU needs long-term Russia strategy lasting ‘years’: Tusk
Brussels (AFP) – New EU president Donald Tusk said Thursday the bloc needs a strategy on Russia lasting years, not just weeks or months, to cope with the problems raised by its intervention in Ukraine.”We need a long perspective strategy… plans for years. We need to be realistic, we have to treat this as a long-term game,”...
EU leaders press Russia, urge new investment
Brussels (AFP) – European Union leaders urged Vladimir Putin to make a “radical change” in his stance on Ukraine Thursday as they boosted sanctions against Crimea despite fears of economic blowback from Russia’s spiralling financial crisis.The leaders at a summit in Brussels also called for the urgent launch of a huge...
Politics no problem, say US and Russian spacefarers
Paris (AFP) – US-Russian ties may have returned to Cold War levels, but an astronaut and a cosmonaut gearing up for the longest flight on the International Space Station said Thursday politics would not disrupt their work of helping a future trip to Mars.NASA’s Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos...
