How Honda Drives Its Workforce
One reason for the success of Honda as an automobile maker in the US is its unconventional approach to hiring key executives. In this excerpt from his new book, Driving Honda: Inside the World’s Most...
View ArticleTel Aviv Diary: 'Israel Has Consistently Misjudged Hamas in This War'
It has been a very disappointing day here in Israel. In the morning, it looked as if we might be heading into a ceasefire. While neither side had officially accepted the ceasefire, Israel had made it...
View ArticleKerry’s Ceasefire Pivot Angers Egypt, Israel—Even the Palestinian Authority
American diplomacy in the Middle East in recent days may have failed to reach a ceasefire in Gaza, but it has managed to reposition the United States on an unfamiliar side of the region’s complex web...
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The Scars of World War I Battlefields a Century Later
A century ago today, on July 28, 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, marking the beginning of World War I. A month earlier, on June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated,...
View ArticleCompanies Behind Israel's Iron Dome Hacked by China: Report
VIENNA (Reuters) - Three Israeli defense contractors behind the Iron Dome missile shield and related systems were themselves robbed of hundreds of documents by hackers linked to the Chinese government...
View ArticleEuropean Union Agrees to Tough Sanctions Against Russia
The European Union has agreed to new economic sanctions against Russia for its role in Ukraine, and the measures will target its energy, finance, and defense sectors, the BBC reports. More details are...
View ArticleTwitter's User Growth Beats Targets, Shares Skyrocket
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter Inc's monthly active users rose a better-than-expected 24 percent in the second quarter as the online messaging service mostly succeeded in stemming a dwindling pace...
View ArticleDrinking Soda as an Adolescent May Damage Memory
Drinking too many sugary drinks as an adolescent can lead to poorer memory function, according to the abstract of a new study released Tuesday.When adolescent rats were fed liquid with sugar...
View ArticleRichard Nixon Was Very Fascinated by Panda Sex
Earlier this month, we learned about Warren G. Harding’s secret erotic letter-writing career. Now we’re struck with another sultry Oval Office revelation: Richard Nixon was apparently very intrigued by...
View ArticleTel Aviv Diary: Anti-Semitism in Europe and a Victory Speech From Hamas
The day began early in Tel Aviv with the sirens going off at 2:30 am. Most of my household was still up, though I had gone to sleep at 2:00 am. It still seems like a dream hearing my son wake me up and...
View ArticleAnother U.N. School Hit and 43 Dead as Israel Maintains Pressure on Gaza
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli fire killed at least 43 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip early on Wednesday as the Jewish state said it targeted Islamist militants at dozens of sites across the...
View ArticleEducating Their Children Abroad Is the Russian Elite's Guilty Secret
Lucky Anastasia Zheleznyak. She has secured one of the BBC’s sought-after positions, working as a production assistant at London’s Ellstree Film Studios. But Zheleznyak isn’t just any Russian expat...
View ArticleNostalgia for the Soviet Era Sweeps the Internet
An iconic image of the long, dark years of the Soviet Union is that of a weary babushka with a string bag queuing for some unappealing-looking food item. Nowadays, those very bags have become a retro...
View ArticleTurkish Women Post Pictures in Gleeful Protest Against Suggested Public...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Hundreds of Turkish women posted pictures of themselves laughing on Twitter on Wednesday to protest against comments by Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc who had urged women not...
View ArticlePro-ISIS Demonstrators Call for “Death to Jews” in the Netherlands
Jewish human rights group the Simon Wiesenthal Center has expressed its shock that protests in support of Islamic terrorist group ISIS have gone undeterred by Dutch authorities in the Hague. Two public...
View ArticleAfter a Decade of Bad Blood with Bondholders, Argentina Faces Default
“It’s one thing to put a gun to your head. It’s another thing to pull the trigger.”So stated a high-level portfolio manager at New York hedge fund Elliott Management Corp., summing up Argentina’s...
View ArticleIsrael Declares Brief 'Humanitarian' Ceasefire in Parts of Gaza
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Israeli military said on Wednesday it would hold fire unilaterally in limited areas of the Gaza Strip for four hours from 3 p.m. (1200 GMT) for humanitarian purposes, an army...
View ArticleWhat Brought Down Air Algerie Flight AH5017?
DAKAR (Reuters) - The Air Algerie flight that crashed in Mali last week appears to have plummeted to the ground from an altitude of 10,000 meters in just a few minutes after flying into a storm, a...
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Pulp (Science) Fiction: Quentin Tarantino Conceptualizing Futuristic Flick
Remember when a furious and “betrayed” Quentin Tarantino scrapped The Hateful Eight, his forthcoming project, after Gawker’s Defamer blog leaked the script last January? Fear not Tarantino nerds! At...
View ArticleTor Says Someone Tried to Monitor Its Users
BOSTON Reuters - Tor, the Internet privacy protecting service, said on Wednesday it discovered a compromise on its network that indicated somebody was trying to monitor the activity of its users."While...
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