The first public signal of Ji’s troubles came last February, when he failed to appear at the funeral of his well-known father, communist old-guard official Ji Pengfei. At the time, he was already in detention. Now that his powerful father is dead, he may have few protectors to stick up for him.
The shakeout is coming. At a time when investors are looking for one global market on which they can trade any stock anywhere, the more than two dozen Nasdaq clones have divided the world into a bewildering maze of exchanges. Europe has almost as many exchanges as countries, and these superfree but provincial stock markets have become an obstacle to globalization by jealously hoarding local business. This week Nasdaq will try to bring some global unity to the chaos it inspired by opening a new Nasdaq Europe in Brussels....
Few French films do anymore. After decades of “navel-gazing” as one critic put it, the New Wave–that genre of self-conscious films dealing with themes of alienation, madness and erotic love–has finally gone into decline. “For three decades now, French film critics and writers thought the New Wave was the only cinema that mattered,” says Jeunet. “Now that is changing. We are fed up with seeing two people sitting in a kitchen talking for two hours....
After a 2-1 win in Detroit on June 18, the Kansas City Royals owned a 10-game winning streak and had moved 1½ games ahead of the second-place Tigers. Today, the Royals sit four games behind the Tigers. It’s a change that’s almost as stunning as that out-of-nowhere 10-game winning streak. After that June 18 contest, Kansas City lost six of its next seven games. The Royals hit .239 as a team with a ....
Frates, 29, is a former captain of the baseball team at Boston College and battles ALS. Topps has decided to produce five items featuring Frates with the proceeds going to help fight the disease. “Topps is honored to take part in the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise awareness and money for ALS charities. All proceeds will be donated by Topps to fund ALS research to find a cure for this disease....
People vote their pocketbooks, as the old saying goes. Up to a point, this is unfortunate, because politicians of both parties usually get too much praise or blame for the state of the economy, when their influence on its behavior is often negligible. Voters ought to cast their ballots on issues where what politicians do, or don’t do, matters. But politics isn’t always rational or fair, and a slowing economy is already a burden that—along with Iraq— Republicans will carry into the election....
Crestor is considered a statin. It lowers lipids by reducing the formation and increasing the breakdown of certain lipid molecules. Crestor inhibits HMG-CoA reductase, an enzyme involved in the production of cholesterol. What Is Crestor Used For? The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Crestor to treat several different conditions that are characterized by high fat and cholesterol levels. This may include high measures of low-density lipoprotein (LDL, considered “bad”), triglycerides (TG), total cholesterol, apolipoprotein B-100 (ApoB, a protein on the fat particles), and low measures of high-density lipoprotein (HDL, considered “good”) cholesterol....
“Dude, when they threw me in with Dale Jr. for 12 weeks, that’s pressure,” Gibson said with a laugh, thinking about two six-week stints with Earnhardt in 2007. MORE: Helping Danica should be priority for SHR | Martinsville picks | Dale Jr. steals a kiss Gibson will move from Danica Patrick’s team to become crew chief for Kurt Busch starting next week at Texas Motor Speedway. Instead of working with a rookie with limited stock-car racing experience, he’l be with the 2004 Cup champion with 25 career victories....
In November, someone phoned 911 in the Ft. Worth, Texas, area, said nothing and hung up. The dispatcher traced the number and called back. When a woman answered, the operator asked what the problem was. “I’m afraid my husband and I are bad parents,” said Linda Hill, according to police. “We haven’t been feeding our child. " When the police arrived at the Hills’ trailer in White Settlement, Texas, they found a comatose 13-year-old boy chained to a kitchen cabinet....
Why would that be the case? Last week, the former UFC women’s featherweight champion left the company and signed the largest contract in women’s MMA history with Bellator. “I’m really happy,” Cyborg told Sporting News. “I cannot explain it. But sometimes I wake up, and I’m like, ‘Ahh, I’m not a UFC [fighter] anymore.’ I wake up in the morning, and I cannot believe it. I had a great time there, but I was not happy....
Ronaldo curled in a stunning 88th-minute free-kick after being fouled by Pique in a thrilling 3-3 draw between the nations at the World Cup on Friday. The Real Madrid star’s goal was his third – his first coming after he won a penalty – as he led Portugal to a hard-fought point in the Group B clash in Sochi. But Pique was unhappy with the fouls, saying Ronaldo regularly exaggerated contact....
Zlatko Dalic’s men impressed in Russia Thursday, crushing Argentina 3-0 in their Group D clash. Ante Rebic, Luka Modric and Ivan Rakitic were on the scoresheet as Croatia moved into the last 16 for the first time since 1998, when Golden Boot winner Davor Suker inspired a run to third place. But Lovren feels the current outfit are a better team, and the Liverpool defender hopes they can better the run of 20 years ago....
The victim, who has not been named by authorities, reportedly sustained wounds to his head and neck during the encounter, which took place yesterday evening in waters off Lizard Island, which is located on the Great Barrier Reef in north Queensland. The Royal Flying Doctor Service confirmed in a statement that its personnel responded to the incident and said the patient was believed to be in a stable condition....
The most common form of Crohn’s, which affects about 50% of patients, is called ileocolitis and does affect the last section of the small intestine (the ileum) and the large intestine. The second most common form, ileitis, affects about 30% of patients and affects the ileum. The classifications are mostly for the benefit of a treatment plan, and the type of Crohn’s disease a patient has can change if other parts of the intestine become affected....
The Penguins star understandably didn’t, though, so here we are in July, talking about the wrist surgery he’s set to have over the next few days, per the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Crosby had unsuccessfully tried to rehab the injury. The next step is a procedure that “is not major,” a source told the Post-Gazette. Crosby’s wrist, per the source, was “terrible,” and didn’t let him play the same way he did during for most of a 104-point, Hart Trophy-worthy season....
Arredondo, who was privately sworn into the council one week after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School took the lives of 19 children and two adults, has not attended any meetings since joining the council and has largely remained out of the public eye amid heavy criticism of his actions as incident commander during the massacre. During a city council meeting on Tuesday, members of the public cheered after it was decided that Arredondo’s future absences would not be excused, according to Fox News reporter Ashley Soriano....
George W. Bush likes to preach “moral clarity” in his foreign policy. And the moral imperative in Liberia, it seems, could not be clearer: step in and stop the killing. For a month now Bush has indicated he will, but on his own terms and in his own time: when the savage Taylor leaves the country for exile in Nigeria, and when a ceasefire is in place. Meanwhile the killing goes on, as a tenuous truce is broken again and again, and a besieged Taylor–the man once responsible for directing troops who hacked limbs off children–fights off rebels....
More than $200 million was wiped off the crypto market after a Bitcoin flash crash on Monday morning, according to CoinMarketCap. Markus shared the meme on Monday, alongside the words “looking at crypto charts.” The “this is fine” meme featuring an anthropomorphic dog sipping tea while surrounded by fire originates from a webcomic called Gunshow, created and illustrated by K.C Green. It’s commonly used in situations of denial or steadfast refusal to accept that situation a person finds themselves in, particularly if these circumstances are hopeless....
“There’s been a time for extreme experimentation in crypto, and that’s why it’s so important to get proper regulation, especially in the U.S.,” Harrison told CNBC’s Squawk Box program on Thursday. “Hopefully, one thing that we’ll get from this current crypto winter is coming out much stronger with better risk management, more reliable systems and companies,” he said. The cryptocurrency market has tumbled in recent weeks, an unexpected twist for investors who had been on a hot streak up until early this year, when a multitrillion-dollar slump in prices saw companies collapse and thousands of jobs disappear overnight....
According to crypto data website Coinmarketcap, the market capitalization (total value) of cryptocurrencies reached a peak of $2,977 billion on November 10, just $23 billion short of $3 trillion. Since then, the value of cryptocurrencies has fallen in steps, with small recoveries, to less than $977 billion, a fall of over $2 trillion since the peak. The last trillion in value has been lost in just 60 days. Overall cryptocurrency market cap was over $2 trillion on April 13....
