Public opinion does not favor the rich person who acts it. First there was Marie Antoinette, purportedly prescribing cake. Now there's Liu Yiqian, a Shanghai businessman who recently shattered records by buying a tiny porcelain cup with poultry paint...

An Air Algerie jet carrying more than 100 people has disappeared from radar during a flight from Burkina Faso to Algiers, the official Algerian news agency said Thursday.