Interviews

For $110, Godless Will Adopt Pets of Blessed After Judgment Day A fair number of people in the U.S. - - estimates range from 20 million to 40 million -- believe there will be a Second Coming in their lifetime, a Judgment Day when the righteous are spirited away to a better place while the godless remain on Earth.

Billionaire Koch Expects More Fake-Wine Lawsuits in 2010 I think of the past 10 years as the counterfeit-wine decade.

Royal Opera House Chief Tony Hall Appointed to House of Lords Tony Hall, the 58-year-old chief executive of London’s Royal Opera House, has been named as a peer in the House of Lords, the U.K. parliament’s upper chamber, the House of Lords said on its Web site.

Hirst Pickles Last Creature, Fires Mom’s Chauffeur: Interview Damien Hirst’s final formaldehyde work, a severed head of a bull with gold-plated horns, sits in a glass tank on top of a marble pedestal at Gagosian gallery in New York.

Egypt’s Gilded Teens Get Hooked on Heroin, Self-Destruct: Books Fast cars, loose women and drug highs are things most people don’t associate with Egypt, land of Pharaohs, crowded mosques and worshipers who pray in the streets.