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January Jones: Diane Kruger & I 'Fight' With Each Other To Get The Best Fashion Pieces
Not to pick sides, but Diane Kruger might just be our favorite gal to watch on the red carpet. So why is this polarizing? January Jones has just revealed that the two are in a perpetual style competition with one another. “She always looks fantastic so I watch what she wears," January told Net-a-Porter's The Edit....
huffingtonpost.com (38 minutes ago)
Cannes: Big Standing Ovation for Alexander Payne's 'Nebraska'
Jury members Nicole Kidman and Ang Lee also walked the red carpet for the world premiere of the director's competition entry at the fest.
hollywoodreporter.com (38 minutes ago)
Google facing new antitrust probe: source
US regulators investigating whether its web display advertising breaches competition laws.
businessspectator.com.au (44 minutes ago)
Google may face new antitrust probe over display ads
Google is facing a new antitrust probe by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display- advertising market to illegally curb competition, people familiar with the matter said.
mercurynews.com (49 minutes ago)
Is America’s Economy Being Sovietized?
Submitted by Brandon Smith of Alt-Market blog, The foundation of the Soviet model of trade and investment was centralization under the guise of "universal public ownership". The entire goal of communism in general was not to give more social and political power to the people, but to extinguish alternative options...
zerohedge.com (1 hour ago)
Cannes: Big Standing O for Alexander Payne's 'Nebraska'
Jury members Nicole Kidman and Ang Lee also walked the red carpet for the world premiere of the director's competition entry at the fest.
hollywoodreporter.com (1 hour ago)
WHO: Scientific red tape mars efforts vs. virus
International efforts to combat a new pneumonia-like virus that has now killed 22 people are being slowed by unclear rules and competition for the potentially profitable rights to disease samp…
azstarnet.com (2 hours ago)
Cannes: Mongrel Media Acquires Three More Competition Titles for Canada
The Canadian distributor added the Benicio Del Toro-starrer "Jimmy P.," "Like Father, Like Son" and "Young & Beautiful" to its shopping bag after earlier picking up the Coen Brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis."
hollywoodreporter.com (2 hours ago)
Comcast activates nearly 100 WiFi ‘hotspots’
The biggest name in the cable business has joined the wireless broadband competition in Springfield.
sj-r.com (3 hours ago)
WHO: Scientific red tape mars efforts vs. virus
GENEVA (AP) - International efforts to combat a new pneumonia-like virus that has now killed 22 people are being slowed by unclear rules and competition for the potentially profitable rights to disease samples, the head of the World Health Organization warned Thursday.
boston.com (3 hours ago)
Let hospitals go bust, says watchdog
The NHS must learn from the airlines, telecoms and energy markets in using competition to improve services, the head of...
thetimes.co.uk (3 hours ago)
Park City competing for “Best Town Ever” title
Park City could be the “Best Town Ever.” Outside Magazine has named Park City a top 10 finalist in its “Best Towns Ever” competition. The winner will be decided via Facebook voting daily for the favorite town through June 10. According to a statement from Park City, it was named a top 10 finalist by the magazine...
sltrib.com (3 hours ago)
WHO: Scientific red tape mars efforts vs. virus
GENEVA (AP) -- International efforts to combat a new pneumonia-like virus that has now killed 22 people are being slowed by unclear rules and competition for the potentially profitable rights to disease samples, the head of the World Health Organization warned Thursday....
ap.org (3 hours ago)
Walker begins work as head of IndyCar competition
Derrick Walker is a busy man this week.
miamiherald.com (3 hours ago)
U.S. basketball team driven by international talent
By Larry Fine (Reuters) - The star-studded U.S. national basketball team cannot afford to get complacent about being the sport's superpower given the pace of emerging talent around the globe, head coach Mike Krzyzewski said on Thursday. According to Krzyzewski, having the privilege of coaching teams that have...
yahoo.com (3 hours ago)
WHO: Scientific red tape mars efforts vs. virus
GENEVA (AP) - International efforts to combat a new pneumonia-like virus that has now killed 22 people are being slowed by unclear rules and competition for the potentially profitable rights to disease samples, the head of the World Health Organization warned Thursday.
yahoo.com (3 hours ago)
Leos Janáček: Sinfonietta; Taras Bulba; The Ballad of Blaník; The Fiddler's Child – review
With the exception of two unfinished scores, a violin concerto and a symphony about the Danube, this disc collects together all the independent orchestral works of Janáček's maturity. Both the Sinfonietta and Taras Bulba, the rhapsody based upon Gogol's novella, have been regularly recorded, and these performances...
guardian.co.uk (4 hours ago)
The Only Thing Better Than a Fireworks Show Is a Fireworks Competition
There's something wonderful about watching things blow up in sparkly, colorful explosions. You might even have your own little display over the holiday weekend. But this explosive timelapse video of the massive annual International Fireworks Competition in Da Nang, Vietnam will make your backyard show look puny by...
gizmodo.com (4 hours ago)
DealBook: A Rush to Recruit Young Analysts, Only Months on the Job
For Wall Street’s top young analysts, landing at a prestigious investment bank out of college was the easy part. Now comes the fierce competition to line up a high-paying job at a prominent buyout fund.
nytimes.com (4 hours ago)
Mudbug Madness kicks off with celebrity contest
Though Tommy Barker, co-star of My Big Redneck Vacation, came to win he came up short in Thursday's Mudbug Madness celebrity crawfish eating competition.
shreveporttimes.com (5 hours ago)
England’s five-star Champions League dream
England could have five clubs in the Champions League in the 2016-17 season under expansion plans to European competition agreed...
thetimes.co.uk (5 hours ago)
Wildly varying hospital prices keep health care expensive
If further proof were needed that price competition doesn’t exist in the expensive U.S. health care market, it arrived this month. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published 2011 charges for medical treatments set by more than 3,000 American hospitals. In suburban Denver, a patient treated for a...
bangordailynews.com (5 hours ago)
Coffee beanery wins Queens contest
Astoria Coffee was one of three local businesses that won big in the Seventh Annual Queens StartUP! Business Plan Competition.
nydailynews.com (5 hours ago)
Cannes: Robert Redford Goes Practically Wordless in the Lost-at-Sea Drama All Is Lost
It's shocking that All Is Lost, the harrowing, almost-dialogue-free film in which Robert Redford plays a lone man stranded at sea, isn't in competition for any prizes at this year's Cannes - and doubly disappointing that Redford isn't up for an acting award, either. Because judging from the universally rapturous ...
vulture.com (5 hours ago)
UEFA create Europa League incentive
Changes to Champions League rules agreed on Thursday could see Europe's top nations having up to five teams in UEFA's top club competition.
standard.co.uk (5 hours ago)
Places on the line as Pietersen lurks
Captain Alastair Cook believes the spectre of Kevin Pietersen's return will create healthy competition in England's batting line-up during the second Investec Test against New Zealand.
standard.co.uk (5 hours ago)
Ethan Coen to Premiere First Full-Length Play, 'Women or Nothing,' Off Broadway
The comedy follows the warmly received Cannes competition premiere of the Coen Brothers' latest feature, "Inside Llewyn Davis."
hollywoodreporter.com (5 hours ago)
Follow the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition on ClassicsOnline
The Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition begins tomorrow (May 24) and will run through June 9. This event was created and organized by a group of music teachers and citizens from Fort Worth, Texas in 1962 to commemorate...
examiner.com (6 hours ago)
Colorado Gov. Hickenlooper launched entrepreneurial competition
Governor John Hickenlooper and the Colorado Innovation Network (COIN)announced Thursday a new business competition statewide that will provide financial incentives for entrepreneurs, innovators
denverpost.com (6 hours ago)
Iranian Filmmaker Banned From His Own Country Attends Cannes
CANNES, France — Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, whose movies are banned in his country and who has been sentenced to jail by the Islamic regime there, is coming to Cannes for a screening of his latest film, publicists for the movie said Thursday. "Manuscripts Don't Burn" tells the story of an Iranian author...
huffingtonpost.com (6 hours ago)
