By Maddy SavageFeatures correspondent@maddysavage
AlamyThe Nordic nation has embraced agile hours for decades. It’s a style of work well suited to the country’s deep-rooted culture of trust, equality and pragmatism.
Miika Härkönen was fed up with the long, dark winters in the Finnish capital Helsinki, so he asked his manager if he could work remotely from Spain for six months.
Since his wife had just had a baby and was on parental leave, the idea was to “work from home” from a rental apartment in Malaga, doing his regular job as a senior team manager for an IT company while also maximising time with his family. Read More...
1500 B.CE (approx.) Many historians trace the apocalyptic world view back to the Persian prophet Zoroaster, who spoke of a cosmic battle between good and evil ending in a new, perfect world for humanity. The Zoroastrian tradition survives today in Iran and as the basis of Parsiism in India. 592 BCE to 586 BCE The Book of Ezekiel, one of the major prophetical books of the Old Testament, is written in response to the invasion and capture of Jerusalem by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar and the subsequent exile of the Jews to Babylon. Read More...
A celebrity handbag designer who pleaded guilty to illegally importing bags made from the skins of protected crocodiles and snakes was sentenced to 18 months in prison, the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of Florida said.
Prosecutors accused Nancy Teresa Gonzalez de Barberi, founder of the luxury handbag company Gzuniga Ltd., and several associates of a multiyear conspiracy to circumvent U.S. and Colombian law around the protection of endangered species by importing handbags into the United States without proper permits from the U. Read More...