NEW YORK — A celebrity-studded Valentine's Day charity auction of contemporary artworks _ all inspired by the color red and the concept of love ...
New York Times | Ron Nixon | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
A year ago, staff members at the Treatment and Research AIDS Center could barely cope. Patients, unable to find care elsewhere, flowed in from every c...
Susan Sawyers | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Much like Thomas Mann's main character in The Magic Mountain, written in Davos, I was an "ordinary [wo]man," amongst a sea of world leaders and power brokers. This convergence of knowledge and influence in one place made for some heady observations and encounters.
AFP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Having climate campaigner Al Gore round to your house is to open yourself to a self-flagellating guilt trip, Irish rock star Bono confessed Thursday.....
Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
U2 lead singer and activist Bono visited the Pentagon to discuss Africa and the fight against global poverty with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates,...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
Rock star Bono pressed French leader Nicolas Sarkozy to increase aid to developing nations, the aid advocacy group DATA said. The organization, co-fo...
Gizmodo | Posted 08.14.2008 | Business
OMG, I can hear the fanboys battling already. Here's a video from last night's CES 2008 keynote, Bill Gates' last for the foreseeable future. And I kn...
Fortune | Patricia Sellers | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Years before Melinda French met and married Bill Gates, she had a love affair - with an Apple computer. She was growing up in Dallas in a hard-working...
Randi Solomon | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
Rarely do our suburban party discussions take us to settings beyond our backyards, but when they do, I'm happy to tout the open-minded, sympathetic, globally-concerned view that will digest well with wine and brie.
AFP | Andrew Bushe | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Ireland's top rock band U2 are hoping to make their mark on Dublin's skyline, but two property developments on the river Liffey waterfront are fueling...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Madonna has sued the people who run her luxury co-op building overlooking Central Park, complaining they won't let her buy a neighbor's apartment. Th...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
"Hello, my name is Bono, and I'm a rock star" — so begins today's rather unusual video blog from NBC Nightly News. Bono dropped by 30 Rock to sp...
AP | Sara Kugler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
Bono sang the praises of Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday, declaring that his fellow philanthropist "could do an awful lot of good inside or outsid...
Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
Anti-poverty groups the ONE Campaign and DATA, both co-founded by rock star Bono, will merge in the United States to form a single organization in tac...
The Smirking Chimp | Mary Shaw | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
On September 27th, here in Philadelphia, the Liberty Medal for 2007 was awarded to Bono and his organization DATA (Debt AIDS Trade Africa), for their ...
Radar Online | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
During an MTV/Clinton Global Initiative event called "Giving" at the Apollo Theater in Harlem Saturday night, the comic responded to one student's com...
AP | CRISTIAN SALAZAR | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
After getting hundreds of pledges to tackle the world's problems at his philanthropic summit this past week, former President Bill Clinton is doing wh...
Guardian (UK) | Stephen Brook | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
Oscar-winning film star George Clooney, twice voted sexiest man alive by People magazine, is being lined up to guest edit the Independent newspaper. ...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
Irish rocker and activist Bono, accepting the Liberty Medal on Thursday night for his humanitarian work in Africa, exhorted Americans to keep working...
New York Post | Keith Kelly | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
It's been a year since rocker Bono and the gang from Elevation Partners bought into the Forbes family media empire in a deal that stunned the industry...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment