Here's a truly inspirational story of success in America by an indigent immigrant. It just proves
what can result from ingenuity, hard work, and thrift.
       
Every morning, the CEO of a large bank in Manhattan walks to the corner for a shoe shine. He
sits in an armchair, examines the Wall Street Journal and the shoe shiner buffs his shoes to a
mirror shine. One morning the shoe shiner asks the CEO: "What do you think about the situation
in the stock market?"

The man answered arr

France's political rivals barely had time to digest the results of National Rally (RN)'s election success, before they had to kick-start a new campaign for the final vote.
The anti-immigration party secured one in three votes in the first round of parliamentary elections. They have now set their sights on winning an absolute majority.
RN leader Jordan Bardella, who hopes to be France's next PM, appealed to voters to make a choice between a left-wing alliance he called "an existential threat to