Filipino designer Herbert Chavez has taken his love for Superman up, up and away, undergoing cosmetic surgery to look like the Man of Steel. For more than a decade, the 35-year-old Chavez has undergone a series of procedures that have made his nose higher and slimmed down his thighs. He has had surgery on his
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Indonesia's resort island of Bali was struck by a 6.2 magnitude earthquake on Thursday, injuring dozens and sending tourists running out of hotels. The Red Cross said 43 people in the south of the island suffered injuries, including head wounds and broken bones, after some ceilings fell. Seventeen were taken to hospital in the island's
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When Johnny Depp appears on Thursday at a museum to introduce his movie "The Rum Diary," he will be doing what many stars do these days to promote passion projects that are seeing fewer art houses debut their films. Depp is putting in a personal appearance to build word-of-mouth buzz for his movie among an
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Asian shares rose on Thursday on growing hopes that Europe is taking concrete steps to contain the region's debt woes and head off a systemic banking crisis. Strengthening investor confidence in the euro zone underpinned the single currency, while receding concerns about the banks' problems threatening the wider financial system sharply tightened Asian credit markets.
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Losses for private investors on Greek debt in the second financing package for Athens are likely to be between 30 and 50%, rather than the earlier agreed 21%, euro zone officials said on Wednesday. The euro zone is reviewing the terms of its second financing package for Greece, including the private sector contribution, because Greece
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Europe needs to take decisive action on Greece, the head of the EU's executive said on Wednesday, outlining a broad plan to contain the crisis threatening the euro as officials said banks faced heavier losses on their holdings of Greek debt. The warning, delivered by Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, is intended
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Greek betting monopoly OPAP has called an extraordinary shareholder meeting for Nov. 3 to seek approval for a 935 mln euro ($1.28 bln) licence deal that is part of the government's privatisation scheme. OPAP's board agreed last month with the government to extend its betting monopoly by 10 years until 2030 and secured an exclusive
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. In today’s global economy, organisations are facing unprecedented pricing pressures as they deal with volatility in the commodities markets, currency fluctuations and unyielding international competition. To help mitigate the challenges, a number of world-class companies are turning to pricing software recommended by organisations from McKinsey, to Gartner and KPMG. In fact, both McKinsey and
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. A leading women’s rights activist once said that “the most fitting monuments a nation can build are schoolhouses and homes for those who do the work of the world”. What she didn’t realise was the need to train educators, and competent ones at that, to fill those schoolhouses. The problem, as seen from the
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. By Shavasb Bohdjalian When the Fed launched its first quantitative easing programme two years ago, the dollar fell sharply as market participants sold on the notion that since the Central Bank was printing money to buy bonds in order to push interest rates lower, it was weakening the currency. The same pattern of trading
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