1. Batman The Batman in his everyday identity is Bruce Wayne, a wealthy business owner living in Gotham City. Batman is a dark and grim hero with a personal vendetta against criminals. Batman has sworn to rid Gotham from the criminal that took his parents from him. 2. Spider man Peter Parker…
New Zealand’s Rising Star Puts Election In Play
The leader of New Zealand’s opposition center-left Labor Party, Jacinda Ardern, has come from far behind to rival Prime Minister Bill English in polls ahead of the Sept. 23 general election. Since becoming leader on Aug. 1, Ardern has helped pull the party’s projected share of the vote from 26%…
Taylor Swift Appear Gruesome
Now look what you made her do! Taylor Swift dons zombie makeup in new making-of clip for her smash-hit video. It takes a lot of work to make Taylor Swift appear gruesome. And viewers see that process unfold in a new making-of clip documenting the time in the makeup chair…
Justin Timberlake’s ‘Can’t Stop the Feeling!’ Among Top 20 Longest-Leading AC Hits
Justin Timberlake’s new single has got people dancing – and sharing their positive vibes on social media. Timberlake dropped “Can’t Stop the Feeling” overnight, his first single in more than two years. The buzz around his comeback (and its celeb-loaded video) has been palpable, with the hashtag #CantStopTheFeeling trending…
Shoot For The Moon Again
The youthful Indian engineers took their seats, a bit nervously, in a makeshift conference room inside a cavernous former car-battery warehouse in Bangalore. Arrayed in front of them were several much older men and women, many of them gray-haired luminaries of India’s robust space program. The first Asian space agency to…
ISLAMIC FINANCE OPPORTUNITIES IN CPEC AND BEYOND
What does US$ 62 billion of Chinese investment in China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) mean for Islamic Financial Institutions (IIFIs)? Are there business opportunities beyond COEC in Pakistan? To shed light on these questions, IBA Centre for Excellence in Islamic Finance, Karachi, Pakistan conducted an International Forum on Unlocking Islamic…
Test Your General Knowledge
In Greek mythology, who turned all that he touched into gold? Midas Which seafaring country has a navigational instrument (armillary sphere) on its green and red flag? Portugal Animal rights organization PETA disapproved of Barack Obama’s ‘execution’ of what creature during a 2009 TV interview? A fly And much…
Why Globalization Stalled
For many decades after World War II, a broad range of countries shared a fundamental economic vision. They endorsed an increasingly open system for trade in goods and services, supported by international institutions; allowed capital, corporations, and, to a lesser extent, people to flow freely across borders; and encouraged the rapid…
Why Tesla is worth more than GM
The digital economy has transformed the way we communicate with each other ; the way we consume information, products, and services; the way we entertain ourselves. It’s revolutionized seemingly non-digital industries — think of how different financial services, for instance, are today from what they were two decades ago —…
Harvard Business Review
Organizations Escape the Meeting Trap Meetings are supposed to improve creativity and productivity – but they do the opposite when they’re excessive, badly scheduled, poorly run, or all three. These problems take a toll on the whole organization, and they require systemic fixes. mARKETING SPOTLIGHT Why CMOs Never Last Four…