André Rieu presents And The Waltz Goes On by Sir Anthony Hopkins

I believe, 50 years ago the younger guise of Mr.Hopkins had distinctively much better taste in music than his Sir's version has at present.

10 Life Lessons to Excel in Your 30s

A couple weeks ago I turned 30. Leading up to my birthday I wrote a post on what I learned in my 20s.

But I did something else. I sent an email out to my subscribers (subscribe here) and asked readers age 37 and older what advice they would give their 30-year-old selves. The idea was that I would crowdsource the life experience from my older readership and create another article based on their collective wisdom.

An explanation of some key vocab words from the growth and spread of Byzantine culture into Eastern Europe between 500-1450.

I believe the nature of this footage may hurt that liars who are responsible for what is happening in Ukraine now.

After clearing out the regional administration headquarters and another government building, Donetsk city police chief Maksim Kirindyasov said that more than 70 people were taken into custody. They were all Ukrainian citizens from the Donetsk region, but a Russian citizen was not among them.

Bitcoin exchange CEO found dead in Singapore

Autumn Radtke, an executive with the troubled online currency company Bitcoin, was found dead in her apartment on February 28.

She was 28 years old.

Setting the Record Straight on Ukraine (March 4, 2014)

Claim: We need to return to the February 21 agreement, which the opposition failed to implement.

US, its allies want ‘puppet government’ in Ukraine: Analyst

The United States and its Western allies have created a “false” and “violent revolution” in Ukraine in order to put in place a “puppet government” in that country to continue their “imperialistic” and “criminal” activities, an analyst says.

"The Western allies have once again created a false revolution in Ukraine…funded heavily by USAID [the US Agency for International Development] and other European organizations,” said Scott Rickard, a former American intelligence linguist in Florida.

Concerned with the tragic loss of life in Ukraine, seeking an immediate end of bloodshed and determined to pave the way for a political resolution of the crisis, We, the signing parties, have agreed upon the following:

1. Within 48 hours of the signing of this agreement, a special law will be adopted, signed and promulgated, which will restore the Constitution of 2004 including amendments passed until now. Signatories declare their intention to create a coalition and form a national unity government within 10 days thereafter.

Putin defends Ukraine stance, cites lawlessness

Accusing the West of encouraging an "unconstitutional coup" in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin said that Moscow reserves the right to protect Russians there.

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin offered a vigorous defense of his country’s intervention in Ukraine, saying Tuesday that the pro-Russian former government in Kiev was illegally overthrown and that the man he regards as Ukraine’s legitimate president asked him for military help.

Sochi 2014. After the opening ceremony the whole world laughed at Russia for the fifth Olympic ring had failed to open. After the closing ceremony Russia laughed at the world for the same matter.

Sochi in Pictures: Closing Ceremony

Russia wraps up the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics with dazzling performances and a handoff to South Korea for the 2018 Winter Games.

China: Stepping into the unknown

Global Economic Outlook, Q1 2014

China’s government recently announced ambitious plans that could make the Chinese economy more market driven, consumer driven, transparent, and prone to profitable investing. Implementation remains a significant challenge, but it is crucial to rectifying the country’s currently unbalanced system.

“It’s about cutting power, it’s a self-imposed revolution. It will be very painful and even feel like cutting one’s wrist.”

1.	Emma Rowley, “China’s new premier Li Keqiang ‘to cut state control over economy,’” Telegraph, March 17, 2013,www.telegraph.co.uk.

What is the “new normal” for aviation?

As the major western economies emerge from the turmoil of the global financial crisis, we find ourselves in a strange and uncertain world. Growth rates are disappointing, relative to the experience before 2007. In the UK, economic growth averaged 3% per annum from 1982 until 2007, more than doubling the size of our economy in 25 years. The only comparable period of sustained UK economic growth was the post-war “golden age” of the 1950s and 1960s. But since the trough of the recession in 2009, UK economic growth has averaged not much more than 1% per annum. Other major western economies are also struggling. In the three years 2011–2013, US economic growth is set to average under 2% and the euro area has struggled to register any growth at all. Emerging and developing economies—by contrast— are performing much more strongly. Even though growth has slowed down in some of the emerging superpowers like China and India, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is still projecting growth of 4.5–5% in the emerging and developing world this year and next.

10 Habits of Financially Happy People

Financial happiness doesn't come easy when your money isn't right. Debt, overdrawn accounts, and too little income can drain you emotionally.

This situation is all too common. But some people have discovered how to be financially happy. What's their secret? It really isn't a mystery. In most cases, it's all about adopting smarter financial habits — something anyone can learn.

Unfortunately everything in Russia is getting ass backwards and Olympic Sochi too.

Fifteen days are remaining before the opening of the Winter Olympics. Let's take a walk to Imeretinsky lowland that is where the Olympic Park is. We hope to see surrounds look like on the glossy leaflets but the reality is far more prosaic: newly built sidewalks are ruining, construction works in Sochi suburbs are never ending and daily trash mixed with heaps of debris are all around. Guess why there is neither a garbage container nor a trash bin near the Olympic Park area? For the security reasons!

Eventually, welcome to the place of Olympic level hospitality.

First Place Winner: Brazil Aquathlon

Photo and caption by Wagner Araujo (Waguinho A.)
Location: Rio Negro, Ponta Negra Beach, Manaus, Amazon, Brazil

I was in Manaus, Amazonas, during the Brazilian Aquathlon (swimming and running) championship. I photographed it from the water and my lens got completely wet, but there was so much energy in these boys that I just didn't worry about that.

—Wagner Araujo

Future Britain Residents

United Kingdom with fear waiting for January 1, 2014 , when European Union plans to lift working restrictions within the EU. It is thought that 500,000 Romanians and tens of thousands of Bulgarians will flood the streets of UK within a couple of weeks after this date.

Global banks are the financial services wing of the drug cartels

As HSBC executives apologise to the US Senate for laundering drugs money, the fact is that nothing changes

"Steal a little," wrote Bob Dylan, "they throw you in jail; steal a lot and they make you a king." These days, he might recraft the line to read: deal a little dope, they throw you in jail; launder the narco billions, they'll make you apologise to the US Senate.

Analysts optimistic about China's economic growth

Foreign analysts have expressed optimism about China's economic growth in the near future, after data suggested that the national economy succeeded in averting "hard landing" risks in 2013.

The Chinese economy grew 7.7 percent in 2013, avoiding "hard landing" risks and demonstrating China's determination of economic restructuring.

Interpreting the growth figure, which exceeded the government target of 7.5 percent, overseas analysts believed that the driving force of the Chinese economy has changed.

Roman Abramovich's girlfriend caught in racism row after posing on 'black woman' chair for fashion shoot

An image of Dasha Zhukova sitting on a chair made to look like a half-naked black woman was published on fashion website Buro 24/7 on Martin Luther King Day[1]

1.	American federal holiday  which is around the time of Martin Luther King King's birthday, January 15. In 2014 it is on Monday, the 20th of January.

Boss selling Montgomery restaurant to save employee with brain tumor

Along Highway 105 in Montgomery, you'll find the Kaiserhof Restaurant and Wunderbar. You'll also find a waitress extraordinaire named Brittany Mathis.

"I have my good days and my bad," said Mathis.

The 19-year-old employee doesn't look or sound sick, but she is -- and everyone at the authentic German restaurant knows it.

8 Rules to Make Telecommuting Work

Culture is key at Blinds.com. But letting employees work from home is a crucial part of maintaining that culture.

Marissa Mayer, Yahoo's CEO, is in good company by recently mandating that all employees report into the office rather than work from home. Zappos, famous for its culture, wouldn't have become what it is with employees located off-campus in disparate locations. In fact, one of CEO Tony Hsieh's rules for success is to maximize serendipity by creating the "opportunity for meaningful collisions." People don't collide when they're miles apart.

Eight rules for a kick-ass company culture

It's easy to misinterpret company culture as just window dressing - add a few Xboxes and a foosball table and, voila!: company culture. But start-ups ignore this vital building block at their peril.

The Hong Kong Disneyland and the Ocean Park are studying further expansion plans to cope with the increasing number of visitors, according to a report released by the Hong Kong government on Friday.

According to the Assessment Report on Hong Kong's Capacity to Receive Tourists at the end of 2013, the projected visitor arrivals would exceed 70 million in 2017, major tourists attractions have to seek further expansions to enhance their receiving capacity.