The Mongolian Stock Exchange occupies a single room. On any given day, it’s quieter than the nearby National Library, as 20 or so traders in cubicles click away softly on their laptops. This muted bourse hardly seems a place to make a fortune, but James Passin, who needs no prompting to declare that he’s “super bullish on Mongolia,” swears it is.
In unity with the prison's inmates, the hacking group pledges to disrupt online activities at Guantanamo -- prompting the U.S. military to shut down the base's Wi-Fi.
Given the fevered pace of China's infrastructure development, 16 years is ancient.
A Russian soldier has cheated death after footage emerged of him having a bullet removed from his forehead with a pair of pliers.
There are more single or childless Japanese men in their 30s and 40s than ever before. The affluent and well paid among them have the time and money to indulge their most esoteric whims, whether in hobbies or consumer goods. A host of new brands and stores have emerged to serve them.
A “castell” is a human tower traditionally built during festivals in many places in Catalonia, Spain. Over the weekend, in the Barcelona neighborhood of Gracia, teams competed to build the most impressive human towers. And they are seriously impressive.
An oversight by the U.S. Congress two decades ago led to the inclusion of models in the H-1B class. A 2007 bill to put them in another category -- and let their numbers soar -- failed. Its sponsor: then-Representative Anthony Weiner of New York, who quit Congress in 2011 after engaging in lewd online behavior.
Three months after hackers working for a cyberunit of China’s People’s Liberation Army went silent amid evidence that they had stolen data from scores of American companies and government agencies, they appear to have resumed their attacks.
White South Africans run the economy. They have a disproportionate amount of influence in politics and the media. They still have the best houses and most of the best jobs. All of this is true but it is not the only picture.
Dozens of American children are abducted to Japan every year—not by strangers, but by parents after messy divorces.
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