The Week in Pictures: Google's utopia to a stem cell burger

Markets continue winning waysAs Chris Beauchamp put it this week, it's not that investors "never had it so good," but it is "a pleasant atmosphere" in the markets. The analyst at IG in London was referring Friday to the ongoing gains on global ...

Sitting in an interview room at the Bunkamura cultural complex in Tokyo's Shibuya district, María Pagés leans forward, smiles and tells me: Flamenco is my language. It was always around me in the cafes and bars, and on the driver's radio if you ...

When David Webb, a real estate investor from the San Francisco Bay Area, and his longtime partner, Lynn McLaughlin, were looking to retire, they thought theyd give Naples, Fla., a try. "We were the token gay couple," says Webb, 62. Invitations to ...

He is an explorer, ecologist, vegetarian and philosopher; a remarkable author and prolific publisher. Craig Potton's photographs and advocacy have been instrumental for many years in helping to drive public opinion throughout New Zealand and help ...

AN extraordinary event took place over the past six days in the remote, harsh fastness of the Tankwa Karoo. Some 6 500 adults, and an uncounted number of children, gathered for what has now become an internationally famous festival of art and ...

As its title indicates, Jaron Lanier's new tech manifesto asks, "Who owns the future?" But for many of those who will be captivated by Lanier's daringly original insights, another question comes first: Who is Jaron Lanier? He is a mega-wizard in ...

Good books transcend their times; bad books reflect them. One reads Madame Bovary for its sublime writing and exploration of the human condition in all its tortuous complexity. But if you really want to understand 19th-century bourgeois France, you ...

In the late 1960s a New Age guru named Father Yod commanded a crowd of young utopia-seeking acolytes. The men grinned through robust beards and the women wore long, wispy dresses. They called themselves the Source Family. The group owned and ...

Israel looks nothing like the Zionist utopia Herzl envisioned, so we might as well stop putting words in his mouth. What would the founder of modern political Zionism, Benjamin Zeev (Theodor) Herzl, say if he could see how his vision has been ...