The Gritti Palace was built in Venice in 1475, with no expense spared. Its chandeliers are made of handblown Murano glass, its bathrooms of polychrome Italian marble. Its terrace looks out over the Grand Canal onto a domed basilica. For years, it was home to Venetian nobility, but now it’s a luxury hotel, where suites

Beijing/New Delhi: President Xi Jinping vanished from public view for 16 days. No appearances, no statements, no images in state-run newspapers and no reports from official channels. From May 21 to June 5, 2025, China’s most powerful man simply disappeared. It was not just the silence. It was the timing. The country’s economy has been

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s massive celebration was clearly the wedding of the century, with maybe the most A-list guest list of all time. Among the hundreds of guests, Tom Brady, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kim Kardashian, Oprah Winfrey, Sydney Sweeney, Orlando Bloom, and more made the cut. Watch the full video to see who was in

Warren Buffett donated $6 billion in Berkshire Hathaway stock to five foundations on June 30, 2025.

Olivia Munn is back at it. The actress — who made headlines in April for blasting Lauren Sánchez’s Blue Origin space flight — appeared to shade the bride and husband Jeff Bezos over their $50 million wedding. One day after Friday’s star-studded nuptials in Venice, Italy, Munn reacted to Mia Farrow’s Instagram post praising the

Chinese President Xi Jinping held separate bilateral meetings with the leaders of Ecuador and Senegal on Friday in what appears to be a concerted effort by Beijing to maintain strong ties with Global South countries, even as major power diplomacy increasingly dominates Beijing’s foreign policy agenda. These are the kind of high-level engagements with African

Last week, China’s ‘Supreme Leader’ Xi Jinping purged high ranking military personnel. A look at the long list of purges unleashed by Xi leads to the question if it’s a form insurance against being toppled from within. Is China’s contemporary ‘emperor’ a lonely and insecure man?