The home of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh, sits down a tree-lined street in an affluent corner of the capital, Dhaka. Tourists and locals file into the compound daily to view its insides and his personal belongings — a dressing gown, old books, his favorite pipe. But they also come to see signs of his death. On Aug. 15, 1975, soldiers rushed into the house at dawn, shooting indiscriminately, killing Mujib — as he is known — and 19 others. Traces of ...

The concept of personal branding has been around for more than a decade, but the Internet and social networking have made it easier than ever to sell brand "you.""If you have a view that others want to hear, think about where your target audience goes for information and what media they consume, and then get your message to them," James told CNN. The Internet has made it easier than ever to reach out to your target audience. Blogging and social ...

This year, it's hip to be dead.Not bad for a group that is unable to make personal appearances or sign autographs. Roesler's company represents two stars on the list (Monroe and Dean) and quite a few living clients (people as varied as Scott Baio and boxer Roberto Duran) as part of its roster of more than 300 entertainment, music, sports and historical figures and organizations. Roesler, who declined to comment on whether he or his company is working with the ...

"Amelia" is a frustratingly old-school, Hollywood-style, inspirational biopic about Amelia Earhart that doesn't trust a viewer's independent assessment of the famous woman pictured on the screen. The mystery we ought to be paying attention to is: What really happened on the legendary American aviator's final, fatal flight in 1937 But the question audiences are left with is this: How could so tradition-busting a role model have resulted in so square, stiff, and earthbound a movie Why present such ...

Soupy Sales, a comedian from the golden era of television, died Thursday. He was 83. The funny man seen many times on popular game shows died at a New York hospice, said Paul Dver, Sales' longtime friend and manager. "We have lost a comedy American icon," Dver said. "I feel the personal loss, and I also feel the magic that he had around him being gone. That's a much more severe loss than a loss of a friend." Sales was ...

Gunmen opened fire on a military vehicle in Islamabad on Thursday, killing an army brigadier and a soldier, officials said. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in New York's State Supreme Court, was brought on behalf of former investors and seeks unspecified punitive damages and compensation. Beyond that, it offers a look at what the plaintiffs' attorneys say was once Madoff's multimillion-dollar empire and what is now his world in a federal prison in North Carolina. Among the allegations in the 264-page ...

President Barack Obama has a personal stake in the outcome of Monday's meeting in Vienna between Western and Iranian nuclear experts on the future of Iran's stockpile of low-enriched uranium. That's because, Administration sources tell TIME, Obama personally weighed in three times during secret, multiparty negotiations with the Iranians over the last four months — in what has become not just a test of Iran's nuclear intentions but also a test of Obama's effort to limit Iran's nuclear ambitions through a combination of sanctions ...

World Cup hosts South Africa have sacked coach Joel Santana after a miserable run of eight losses in nine friendly internationals. The South African Football Association posted a statement on its Web site on Monday saying that Santana would step down his role with "immediate effect" and added it had been "unanimously agreed." Jairo Leal and Pitso Mosimane will take temporary charge of the Bafana Bafana with the finals in South Africa now only eight months away. The 60-year-old Santana ...

China ranks second only to the United States in the number of billionaires, according to an annual report of the 1,000 richest people in the country. The Hurun Rich List counted 130 billionaires in China this year, up from 101 a year ago and none in 2003. An additional 825,000 people had personal wealth of more than $1.5 million, said Rupert Hoogewerf, an accountant who has compiled the list since 1998. "You can double the real number of billionaires in ...

Job seekers struggling with a cutthroat job market are turning to image consultants to give them an edge at interviews. Amanda Sanders, image specialist with New York Image Consultant, told CNN that her clients used to be mostly divorcees or single people wanting to update their look. She says that these days around half of her clients are looking to boost their careers. "Now the job market is more competitive people want to invest in themselves and improve their game," ...