Lifestyle
NYFW Wrap-Up: Retailers Embraced the Streamlined Minimalist Silhouettes and Easy Louche Dressing
The mood was clearly upbeat at New York Fashion Week, where streamlined, minimalist silhouettes and light, loose layers were evident throughout many collections. During these uncertain times, many designers...
Tanger Extends Acquisition Streak With Kansas Outlet Center Purchase
Tanger has extended its streak of retail property acquisitions by purchasing Legends Outlets,a 690,000-square-foot open-air outlet center in Kansas City, Kan., for approximately $130 million. The acquisition of Legends...
Minimalism, Harem Pants and More Trends From New York Fashion Week Spring 2026
New York Fashion Week sharpened its focus this season, with minimalism leading the narrative. Calvin Klein, Michael Kors, Fforme, Ralph Lauren, TWP and Khaite distilled their collections down to...
EXCLUSIVE: Art Basel Paris Partners With Leading Fashion Personalities
PARIS – Art Basel is partnering with two prominent fashion industry figures to curate public events at its upcoming fair in Paris, as it continues to broaden its reach...
World
In Philadelphia’s Calder Gardens, a Dynasty Comes Home
That’s meant to be remedied by Calder Gardens, a new institution taking shape in a half-buried berm on the Parkway, not far from that paternal fountain. The site joins...
How Jane Birkin Handled the Problem of Beauty
In Agnès Varda’s film “Jane B. par Agnès V.,” from 1988, a nearly forty-year-old Jane Birkin, dressed in jeans, a white T-shirt, and a tweed blazer, her messy brown...
What I Wanted, What I Got
The popular girl at my elementary school—let’s call her Denise—was not blond like Barbie but pretty in a conventional manner I envied. She had brown hair, skin that tanned...
Business
Israel strikes kill Palestinians near Gaza’s last functioning hospitals
Israeli forces have unleashed a new wave of attacks on Gaza, striking areas near some of the few hospitals still functioning, while their ground assault on Gaza City leaves...
Nigeria lifts emergency rule in Rivers State after 6 months of political crisis
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s president lifted emergency rule and removed the suspension of a state governor and lawmakers in oil-rich Rivers State on Wednesday after six months of...
Regev opens door for Uber in Israel without public process, professional input
Transportation Minister Miri Regev bypassed ministry experts and regulators in a move critics say is politically driven and undermines Israel’s licensed taxi system.Transportation Minister Miri Regev has approved the...
Fuel tankers set ablaze as militants enforce blockade of key Senegal-Mali trade route
Mali's military government has sought to calm anger over a blockade by Islamist militants on major highways where lorry drivers have been facing ambushes and arson attacks.In a rare...
News
Trump’s One Weird Trick to Wreck the Economy
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday described a “curious balance” in the labor market, in which both supply and demand have sunk “sharply,” thanks to President Donald Trump’s...
Nancy Mace Launches Racist Attack on Ilhan Omar for Made-Up Quotes
Representative Nancy Mace’s crusade against Representative Ilhan Omar has dredged up an old, Islamaphobic rumor.The pair were going back and forth on X Wednesday, ahead of a scheduled floor...
Trump Dangerously Escalates Efforts to Get Revenge on Letitia James
“All I’m telling you is that we’re going to look at [the current maps], we’re going to poll our legislators, and if it’s there, we’re going to do it,”...
Transcript: Trump Rages Wildly at Media as Poll Exposes a Key Weakness
Waldman: I think because Trump is so ubiquitous, it’s easy to fall into the belief that he must be persuading people. And he repeats the same things over and...
Beauty
Domenica Pace’s Success Story: Turning Passion into Profession and Inspiring a New Generation of Fashion Bloggers
Domenica Pace, with her captivating big eyes and reassuring smile, has become a force to be reckoned with in the world of fashion. At 37 years old, the former model...
From Small-Town Beginnings to the International Spotlight: The Inspiring Journey of Celina Weil
In a world where dreams often feel out of reach, Celina Weil’s rise to becoming Miss Intercontinental Europe stands as a beacon of hope and ambition. What started as a spontaneous decision...
MF license aspirant list swells amid bullish industry growth projections
4 min read Last Updated : Oct 16 2024 | 5:37 PM IST
India's thriving mutual fund industry is drawing interest from several firms, with multiple applications submitted to...
Airbus likely to cut up to 2,500 jobs in defence, space divisions: Report
Airbus has also been drawing up a specific turnaround plan for its struggling Space Systems business. | Photo: Reuters2 min read Last Updated : Oct 16 2024 | 4:32...
Culture
Manchester United posts sixth year of net loss, forecasts revenue dip
MANCHESTER United reported an annual net loss for the sixth consecutive year on Wednesday (Sep 17) and forecast lower revenue for the fiscal year, highlighting the club’s ongoing financial...
FTC scrutinises Ticketmaster efforts to stop resale bots
The company’s industry dominance has long been targeted by fans, artists, regulators and lawmakers, dating back to the 1990s[SAN FRANCISCO] Live Nation’s Ticketmaster is being probed by the US...
SIA Group’s passenger traffic up 5.4% in August
Passenger traffic is at 13.6 billion for the month, compared with 12.9 billion in the corresponding period last year[SINGAPORE] Passenger traffic for the two carriers under the Singapore Airlines...
Markets gear up for series of Fed cuts with bullish bets at risk
Markets have also priced in reductions continuing deep into 2026 to ward off a recession[NEW YORK] A key question for investors this week is whether US Federal Reserve officials...
Style
Great Gay Novels Recommended by the Director of “The History of Sound”
In Oliver Hermanus’s new film, “The History of Sound,” two young men at the New England Conservatory of Music meet in a bar, when one of them (Josh O’Connor)...
Charlie Kirk and Tyler Robinson Came from the Same Warped Online Worlds
Assassins and would-be assassins have become a sickeningly common feature of our polarized political landscape, and so have our rituals in the aftermath of the assailants’ heinous acts. First...
How Samin Nosrat Learned to Love the Recipe
“I was losing my mind,” the chef and writer Samin Nosrat said. We were sitting in the living room of her small house in Oakland, and she was describing...
Can You Really Live One Day at a Time?
This summer, I reread the novel “Aurora,” by Kim Stanley Robinson, a science-fiction writer whom I profiled a few years ago. Robinson has an ecological orientation, and “Aurora” is...
Fashion
US SEC paves way for crypto spot ETFs with new listing rules
THE Securities and Exchange Commission voted on Wednesday to approve proposed rule changes by three national securities exchanges, enabling them to adopt generic listing standards for new cryptocurrency and...
Stocks to watch: Stoneweg Europe Stapled Trust, Del Monte Pacific, Marco Polo Marine, mm2 Asia
[SINGAPORE] The following companies saw new developments that may affect trading of their securities on Thursday (Sep 18): Stoneweg Europe Stapled Trust (Sert) : The managers of Sert on...
PayPal and Google expand partnership to power agentic commerce
The companies are working to establish standards to ensure merchants, consumers and autonomous AI agents are operating with sufficient risk controls and safety features[NEW YORK] PayPal Holdings and Alphabet’s...
GM is in talks to extend China venture with demand recovering
Foreign automakers have scaled back in the Asian nation as domestic players have taken greater control of the market[DETROIT] General Motors (GM) is in preliminary talks to renew its...
