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Hedda Bolgar, renowned psychoanalyst, dies at 103

Hedda Bolgar, a psychologist old enough to have attended Sigmund Freud's lectures in Vienna but youthful enough to have treated patients until just a few weeks ago, has died. She was 103. Her mind was sharp, her zest for work keen, and her social...

Tags: Psychotherapy, University of Chicago, Psychologists, Sigmund Freud, Nazi Party

31 arrested in $50-million diamond robbery at Brussels Airport

LONDON — Thirty-one people have been arrested in a three-country sweep tied to a spectacular $50-million diamond heist at a Belgian airport in February, officials said Wednesday. More than 250 officers with the Belgian federal police and the...

Tags: Criminals, Theft, Police Arrests, France, Swiss Confederation

Authorities arrest 31 in spectacular diamond heist

LONDON -- Authorities in three countries have arrested 31 people in connection with a spectacular diamond heist in February that saw robbers disguised as police steal an estimated $50 million worth of gemstones from a parked plane on a Belgian airport...

Tags: Criminals, Theft, Police Arrests, France, Swiss Confederation

Lionel Bringuier ends L.A. Philharmonic stint on a high note

The Los Angeles Philharmonic sent Lionel Bringuier out into the world on Sunday afternoon. Lucky world. And lucky Zurich, where the streets in Switzerland's posh financial capital are already paved with gold and which will have the 26-year-old French...

Tags: Culture, Music, Entertainment, Swiss Confederation, Music Industry

Lionel Bringuier's L.A. fast track

PARIS — The Los Angeles Philharmonic's resident conductor Lionel Bringuier is enjoying a rapid rise in the world of classical music. With three concerts this week at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the young Frenchman will complete a six-year stint in...

Tags: Culture, Music, Entertainment, France, Strained Muscle

Thieves in Belgium make off with $50 million in diamonds

PARIS -- Heavily armed robbers disguised as police officers stole $50 million worth of diamonds in a spectacular raid at Brussels' international airport, authorities said Tuesday. Shortly before 8 p.m. Monday, two black cars with flashing blue lights...

Tags: Criminals, Theft, France, Brussels (Belgium)

Tina Turner may become a Swiss citizen, give back U.S. passport

Tina Turner wants to become a Swiss citizen, and love has everything to do with it. If you've been wondering what the iconic diva has been up to lately, she's been living in Kuesnacht, a Zurich suburb, since 1995. A Swiss paper wrote Friday that the...

Tags: Ike Turner, Brownsville, Lindsay Lohan, Roger Moore, Tina Turner

PASSINGS: Galina Vishnevskaya, Lisa della Casa, Paul Rauch

Galina Vishnevskaya Russian opera singer, wife of Rostropovich Galina Vishnevskaya, 86, a world-renowned Russian opera diva who with her husband defied the Soviet regime to give shelter to writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn and suffered exile from her...

Tags: Music, Opera (genre), Entertainment, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Swiss Confederation

Soprano Lisa della Casa, an opera beauty, dies at 93

Lisa della Casa, a Swiss-born soprano known for her sweet voice and exquisite elegance, has died at 93, the Vienna Opera announced Tuesday. The late English music critic Sir Neville Cardus reportedly once said of Della Casa that one should go to her...

Tags: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Music, Al Pacino, Classical Music (genre), Opera (genre)

Pictures in the News | August 24, 2012

The Week in Pictures | August 20 – 26, 2012

Swiss bank UBS to cut 10,000 jobs, or 16% of workforce, by 2015

Swiss bank UBS will cut 10,000 jobs as it exits from its fixed-income trading business and tries to cut costs and concentrate on wealth management. The Zurich, Switzerland-based institution, which stated that it is “significantly reshaping its...

Tags: European Debt Crisis, Business Enterprises, Career and Workplace, Investments, Layoffs and Downsizing