with Clement Fayol) and an upcoming book on crisis entrepreneurs. He joined Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal in 2002 after three years at French dailies Le Figaro and les Echos.

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Drexel University has tapped an Italian-born political economist who formerly worked at the University of Pennsylvania and ...

At least 15 people were killed and dozens wounded after a man, identified by the FBI as a United States military veteran, ploughed a pick-up truck into a crowd of New Year’s revellers on Bourbon ...

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For more than a decade, Mr. al-Assad remained in power, employing vicious means to do so while enjoying an obscene amount of ...

Black History Month wasn’t always a monthlong celebration. In February 1926, historian and author Carter G. Woodson created Negro History Week. It was a weeklong celebration in an effort to teach ...

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He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War Two. He worked hard to keep people's spirits up in wartime. He is known for his great speeches. In 1940 Britain was in danger fighting ...

Today we know what the world looks like. We've taken pictures of it from space! We know there are many countries, some far away, and that there are lots of different people. But for thousands of ...

Isaac Steidl founded the Coco platform, which authorities tied to criminal activity for years. The effort to hold Mr. Steidl ...