"There are places I'll remember / All my life," sang John Lennon on the Beatles' first incontestably great album, "Rubber Soul." One such place, Ian Inglis says in what by my count is his third book on the band, was surely Hamburg—the ...
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. made history Friday by attaching the first private spacecraft to the international space station, a move that ultimately could change the economics and politics of U.S. space exploration.
Europe's leaders talk. A lot. (Our leaders here in the U.S. aren't any better, but that's another story.) All of Europe's leaders got together this week, in a room, with a hundred-year storm lashing the windows. What did they do?
BAKU, Azerbaijan—Famed for outrageous spectacle and gaudy kitsch, the Eurovision song contest is a quirky annual tradition usually more synonymous with high camp than high politics: not so in Azerbaijan.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner took a pause from his steady drumbeat of economic and fiscal policy speeches to give a more introspective reflection on his time in government, from which he plans to exit in the next eight months.
CAIRO—Early results on Friday morning from Egypt's presidential election appeared to point to a bruising runoff race between former regime loyalist Ahmed Shafiq and Muslim Brotherhood political leader Mohamed Morsi, an outcome that could ...
By Ayesha Javed The buyout industry in the U.S. has sometimes been linked with the political right, most recently via Republican candidate Mitt Romney, a founder of Bain Capital. Now, a collaboration between French and American academics has ...
James Pethokoukis writing at the American Enterprise Institute's blog, April 30: Imagine if Steve Jobs a) were alive and b) somehow nabbed the 2012 Republican nomination. What would the Democrats be saying about this beloved American ...
Indonesia has enjoyed a recent spell as a darling of global investors looking for promising alternatives to China and India. With a large pool of consumers boasting increasing incomes, rich natural resource endowments and a growth rate ...
MEXICO CITY—Thousands of students are joining a growing street-demonstration movement to protest Mexico's top two television networks, which they accuse of colluding to secure the leading presidential candidate's election this summer.
Eduardo Saverin doesn't seem likely to splash any of his new Facebook money into the Chinese Internet world just yet. Speaking at the CHINICT conference in Beijing on Friday, Mr. Saverin didn't say much about China, referring only to the ...