Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has accused the US of attempting to assassinate him, claiming he has uncovered a plot that leads directly to the White House. Mr Maduro repeated his frequent warning that a US invasion is imminent – this time giving some details but no evidence. He accused President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton of overseeing…

Experiencing a death in the family is never an easy thing to go through, especially with heightened emotions being shared by everyone you tend to rely on for support in times of grief. But what about when a death occurs in your work family? You may not be related by blood, but there is a…

Maurin Pisani picked the last of this year’s jasmine flowers and held it to his nose, breathing in the delicate perfume. Behind him the Maritime Alps, beneath, the hills of Grasse rolling to the sea. “Their smell changes all the time because they are alive. Sometimes of mango, apricot and banana, sometimes almonds and coconut,…

Years of business experience have taught me that my ability to relate to others, and hard skills, are equally important to earning me a seat at the decision-making table, regardless of the situation. Job recruiters’ growing emphasis on a candidate’s soft skills (involving their Emotional Intelligence (EQ) versus their Intellectual Intelligence (IQ)) confirm the importance…

Schools in southern China are forcing children to wear uniforms embedded with computer chips that track their movement and trigger an alarm if they skip class. More that more than 10 schools in Guizhou province and the neighboring autonomous region of Guangxi are now requiring students to wear “intelligent uniforms”, according to the state-run newspaper The…

CALGARY — Enbridge Inc. has signed a deal for the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to buy 49 per cent of the pipeline company’s interests in a group of renewable power assets for $1.75 billion. Enbridge says the agreement will see the creation of a joint venture that includes all its Canadian renewable power assets,…

Oleg Deripaska, the Russian oligarch, was yesterday accused by the United States of working with a former Kremlin intelligence officer to interfere in Montenegro’s 2016 elections. The US Treasury announced sanctions against Victor Alekseyevich 
 Boyarkin, once a member of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency 
 but now working for Mr Deripaska, 
according to the…

If you are a Gen Xer or millennial, now is your time. For the last 35 to 40 years, baby boomers have been the largest population and the largest workforce. That has now changed. Millennials have replaced boomers as the largest workforce because more than half of boomers have officially retired. The Gen X population…

Columbine High School, the site of an infamous 1999 massacre, was on lockdown today after police alerts of a suspicious person in the area who made threats against the school. School officials in Jefferson County, Colorado said that 24 schools were similarly locked down as the sheriff’s office advised people to avoid the area and dispatched police…