Brendan McDermid | Reuters Billionaire businessman Guo Wengui speaks during an interview in New York City, April 30, 2017. Casino tycoon Steve Wynn may have played a central role in a U.S.-Chinese diplomatic episode strange enough that the Wall Street Journal wrote it was “worthy of a spy thriller.” The …

China’s central bank chief just warned about a potential bubble in China: Rising household debt. “Regarding household debt levels, China doesn’t rank that high on a global scale, but the pace of growth has picked up in the last few years,” People’s Bank of China governor Zhou Xiaochuan said Thursday. …

Photo Alison Fraser portrays a therapist and several other damaged characters in Aaron Mark’s monologue. Credit Maria Baranova The playwright and director Aaron Mark likes to tell creepy stories in the dark, or as close as he can get to it. Two seasons ago, when Daphne Rubin-Vega played a woman …

Patrick Kovarik | AFP | Getty Images Tokyo’s governor Yuriko Koike, Los Angeles’ Mayor Eric Garcetti, Paris’ Mayor Anne Hidalgo, New York’s Mayor Michael Blumberg and Barcelone’s Mayor Ada Colau pose during C40 Cities Climate summit in Paris on October 23, 2017. The mayors of London, Los Angeles, Paris and …

Photo Daniel Day-Lewis in a scene from the trailer for “Phantom Thread.” Daniel Day-Lewis has always been unpredictable, and he may have delivered his biggest surprise yet when he announced in June that he would retire from acting after reteaming with his “There Will Be Blood” director, Paul Thomas Anderson, …

The Hong Kong Museum of Art is closed for a $120 million (930 million Hong Kong dollars) renovation, which will add glass atriums to the ground floor and rooftop, giving it much-needed light and space. Just down the waterfront, the long-delayed West Kowloon Cultural District, WKCD, is finally taking shape, …

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia, holds a Nvidia Drive PX Auto-Pilot Computer during the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California, last March. Nvidia, the best-performing stock over the past year, will thrive from the artificial intelligence technology trend, according to one …

Jabin Botsford | The Washington Post | Getty Images President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with members of the Senate Finance Committee and members of the President’s economic team in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017. After the widow of …

Csaba Szalo, a professor of sociology at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, said Krtek was “an iconic figure, very recognizable to both kids and adults, and is across the generations very easy to identify with for the emotions he elicits.” Photo Stuffed toys and other Krtek memorabilia are sold …

Antoine Antonio | Getty Images Mike McCue, chief executive officer of Flipboard. Seventeen years ago, I competed against Mike McCue, who is currently the Founder and CEO of Flipboard. Back then, he was the co-founder and CEO of Tellme Networks and I was the VP of Business Development at a …