American Century Corporation

BBC - 3 hours ago

1606 - European explorer Pedro Fernandez de Quiros leads an expedition to the islands naming them Terra Austrialis del Espiritu Santo. 1768 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville names the islands Les Grandes Cyclades. 1774 - British explorer Captain Cook ...

CBS News - 3 hours ago

0 An undated of veteran CBS News producer Bernard Birnbaum, whose half-century-long career at the network included award-winning coverage of key events including the Kennedy assassination, the Vietnam War and Watergate. Birnbaum died on Thursday, ...

Guardian.co.uk - 5 hours ago

Earlier this month at a creative writing school in Havana, I found myself wondering if there is such a thing as a national literature any more, something autonomous and utterly distinctive, and with a sufficiently large local audience. Cuba is one of the ...

Time - 10 hours ago

The price wars have gone nuclear. From Target's $3 coffeemakers to Best Buy's half-price stoves to Staples's $300 laptops, the theme of this holiday shopping season is, without a doubt, "we sell for less." Even Wal-Mart's commitment to "every day" low ...

BBC - 11 hours ago

Warner's support is seen as vital to England's hopes of hosting the tournament Fifa vice-president Jack Warner has said it 'is England's time' to host the 2018 World Cup after meeting Prime Minister Gordon Brown in Trinidad. Warner, who is head of the ...