Sami's hair salon was an instant success.

Layla went to a hair salon to get extensions in her hair.

The decision to exclude Egyptian authors for Salon international du livre d Alger (SILA) (Algiers Book Fair) did not sit well with many Algerians.

Year after year at the annual World Tango Competition, Argentine dancers dominate the top ranks of Stage Tango, more glamorous and difficult than the other category, Salon Tango.

Leadership doesn't have a user's manual, but Fields Wicker Miurin says stories of remarkable, local leaders are the next best thing. At a TED salon in London, she shares three.

Year after year at the annual World Tango Competition, Argentine dancers dominate the top ranks of Stage Tango, more glamorous and difficult than the other category, Salon Tango. This year was no different.

In 2009, a Japanese couple, Hiroshi and Kyoko Yamao, made history by winning the championship in Salon Tango, in which a loving connection between the dancers is more important than a haughty attitude.

It's a brand new love affair that we're trying to cultivate at MOMA. Together with Adam Bly, who is the founder of Seed magazine that's now a multimedia company, you might know it we founded about a year ago a monthly salon for designers and scientists, and it's quite beautiful.

Speaking at a TED Salon in London, economist Martin Jacques asks How do we in the West make sense of China and its phenomenal rise? The author of When China Rules the World, he examines why the West often puzzles over the growing power of the Chinese economy, and offers three building blocks for understanding what China is and will become.

Money collected funds small projects for Iraqi families here, especially for women, and goes towards purchasing sewing machines, ovens for baking bread, equipment for a home based beauty salon, or items to enable them to make pickles and other food products, which they can sell and make a small income which will enable their families to live above the poverty line while they are abroad.