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First it was cars and electronics, then pop music and films, and now the beauty industry: skincare and cosmetics "made in Korea" are in demand all over the world. More and more Westerners are raving about South Korean beauty products. This success is no coincidence, nor is it a purely aesthetic phenomenon.
Thousands of people are expected to take part in the German peace movement's traditional Easter peace marches, with over a hundred events organized in dozens of towns across the country between April 2 and 6. Several German newspapers have run ads trying to mobilize people.
The first two state elections of the year have come and gone in Germany, and things are starting to pick up again within the federal government.
The Hungarian election campaign has been in a frenzy for weeks, but this latest scandal has shocked even the most cool-headed observers. Many have described it as a "return to dictatorship and Communist times."
Mourners hold a portrait of Youssef Assaf, a Lebanese Red Cross volunteer paramedic who was killed during a rescue mission in southern Lebanon, at his funeral in Tyre on March 11.
The first time Vivian Tu got "financially naked" in front of her partner — a term she uses to describe "brutally honest conversations" about money — it was out of desperation. She was just starting her career on Wall Street and living in a roach-infested apartment in New York City.
Kim Freudenberg, a longtime teacher in San Francisco, knew that raising two boys meant a lot of hard conversations. She warned them about all the usual dangers: drugs, alcohol, sex, social media, riding a bike without a helmet. "Never once did I even think that I needed to say 'gambling,'" she recalls.