When Mothers Die
Liya Kebede is an internationally recognized supermodel, actress, designer, maternal health advocate and mother. She is the founder of the Liya Kebede Foundation, a Goodwill Ambassador for the World Health Organization’s maternal and child health program, a Champion for an HIV Free Generation and an Advisory Board member for the Mothers Day Every Day campaign.
Throughout the developing world, women die in childbirth for lack of the simplest things: soap, clean sheets, and trained birth attendants. Model Liya Kebede is part of the new movement to prevent these deaths.
The Ultimate Power Women's Dinner
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Hundreds of the world's most powerful women-from Queen Rania to Martha Stewart-gathered Wednesday night to spotlight the plight of poor and deprived women. View our gallery.
At the 4th annual Important Dinner for Women last month, 300 women leaders gathered to discuss the issue of maternal mortality in the developing wo...
The Charity Event of the Year
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J.K. Rowling stepped out with Sarah Brown, wife of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, last night to bid at an exclusive auction benefiting Mikhail Gorbachev's foundation. The Daily Beast goes behind the scenes.
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling was one of the guests of honor at Mikhail Gorbachev's annual foundation gala.
President Barack Obama, Britain's Prince Charles, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and French President...
The Week in Celebrity—Fashion Edition
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In neon brights and flowing whites, stars strutted red carpets-and rocked the stage-this week. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the week in celebrity fashion.
The New Diana?
Meredith Etherington-Smith is the London-based editor of Christie’s magazine, and wrestles on a daily basis with the topic of taste in art, antiques, decoration and fashion. She has written several books and helmed many documentaries on fashion, design, and beauty for Channel 4 and HBO.
With her European trip, Michelle Obama showed the instincts to become a style icon on par with a certain British princess.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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