The modernising head of one of Oxford University's most renowned colleges is facing an internal investigation amid claims of a campaign to oust him.
As his country, Tunisia, heads toward the first elections after the Arab revolts on Sunday, Mr. Ghannouchi, a renowned Islamic thinker, faces a reckoning between his principles and intentions.
In the aftermath of a research study volunteer's death and the subsequent imposition of serious sanctions by federal officials, Johns Hopkins University's renowned research arm faces a long road ahead in reestablishing its program of 2,800 medical experiments involving human subjects, officials say.
Instead of wearing his renowned expression of single-minded focus, his face carried something else: a goatee.
There they will face teams renowned for their exhaustive training and extraordinary speed.
Marketed as the creations of "world renowned architect Daniel Libeskind" — whose face is all over the brochures — the apartments are among the highest-priced condos in town.
That exhibition, which features some "selfies" that are a couple of dozen feet high, has now come to the Dallas Museum of Art, where Ms. Sherman's knack for elaborate makeup should hold considerable appeal in a city renowned for putting on faces.
Belugas are small white whales whose cute dolphinlike faces are renowned for their expressiveness, and it was tough to resist the impression that they were smiling at us when they popped their little melon heads above the surface for a look around.
Another big step in that regression could come Monday, when Nabeel Rajab, one of the Arab world's most renowned human rights activists, faces sentencing on charges of speaking out on matters such as torture in Bahrain's prisons and the war in Yemen.
But even someone as renowned as Mr Voutilainen faces challenges in a changing industry.
