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Shanghai-based contributor Robert Price and economist Betsy Stevenson explain why income and material wealth don’t necessarily correlate with a sense of well-being and Milos Stehlik checks in from Cannes.

This late in the festival, everyone is hanging onto the last bits of their energy and trying to make it into the home stretch.

Here’s a shocking fact: Automobile traffic kills more young people developing countries than HIV/AIDs or malaria. Here’s another shocking fact: We know how to stop it -- but we haven’t.

The former enfant-terrible of French cinema, Leos Carax, is back with a new film. Holy Motors depicts a wealthy executive shuttling between a series of appointments. At each “appointment” he acts out some fantasy – two murders and an erotic stop-motion action sequence among them. 

Editor's Note: Worldview contributor Robert L. Price was at this weekend's NATO summit and will blog throughout the week on the summit and sustainability issues.

Chile has a long-standing tradition of activist singer-songwriters who have led entire Latin American musical movements. This week's Global Notes segment highlights a variety of Chilean artists, several aof whom head to Chicago this summer.

Wednesday on Worldview we look at global traffic safety and Chile's long-standing tradition of activist singer-songwriters.