Badminton. Photograph: Getty Images. A badminton player. Photograph: Getty Images. When following the best tactics for winning gold gets you disqualified for match-throwing, something is wrong with the game.

The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or no money.

Another day, another columnist demonstrating just how warped the public perception of "feminism" is. Today in The Guardian, Hannah Betts revealed that "Feminism and flirtation are by no means unlikely bedfellows".

Human hair has been bought and sold for thousands of years, but in India the ebb and flow of this particular market has started to correlate with the ebb and flow of a different index - the human ego.

Simply by entering the Olympic stadium for the opening ceremony, two Saudi Arabian women made history. The inclusion of Saudi Arabia alongside female athletes from Brunei and Qatar means that, for the first time since the modern Olympics began, every ...

Type 1: Unbelievable Hypocrisy. If you had told me twenty years ago that'd I'd send my children to a private school then I wouldn't have believed you.

ARGENTINA DAYBOOK: Chavez, Fernandez Sign PDVSA-YPF Agreement. By Pablo Gonzalez - 2012-08-01T03:00:01Z. Presidents Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and Hugo Chavez signed an energy agreement on the sidelines of the Mercosur trade bloc ...

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South Tank. The South Tank at Tate Modern in London, which was previously a power station. Two of the building's disused oil tanks are being converted into spaces for performance art and film, and a 15-week festival is being held there this year.

John Studzinski, senior managing director of Blackstone Group LP (BX) and a benefactor of Tate Modern, said he's giving the London museum another 1 million pounds ($1.57 million) to help pay for its new wing.