Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross, who made his fortune making bold investments on distressed industries, said on Wednesday that he expects his next bet to be on banks and thrifts.
The French fashion industry on Wednesday March 10th signed a charter to fight anorexia by promoting healthy body images in magazine ads and on the catwalks of Paris, the world's fashion capital.
Besides the hefty five or even six-digit price tags, the prominent presence of mobile phone brand Vertu at the world's largest watch show in Basel seemed somewhat out of place.
Supermodel Kate Moss regained first place in the British edition of Glamour's annual best-dressed woman list, the magazine revealed Monday, as Kylie Minogue tumbled from the top.
Mumbai police tried to hush one of the world's largest and noisiest cities on Monday by asking drivers to refrain from endlessly honking their horns, but their message appeared to have been drowned out in the cacophony.
Egyptians angry with the government about high prices set fire to shops and two schools in a Nile Delta textile town on Sunday after police thwarted plans for a general strike and countrywide protests.
British supermodel Naomi Campbell was released on bail early Friday April 4st after being arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer at London's Heathrow airport, officials and her spokeswoman said.
By Julie Mollins TORONTO (Reuters Life!) - When Master Corporal Paul Franklin started collecting war rugs while serving with the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan he did not know he would be part of a growing global trend.
Time waits for no man, or woman -- even a queen, as Marie-Antoinette found to her cost amid the tumult of the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century.
Naomi Campbell, the British supermodel, was removed from a British Airways flight at London Heathrow by police on Thursday April 1st, an airport spokeswoman said.
Swedish cheap'n chic clothing chain H&M said on Thursday the Japanese founder of the Comme des Garcons fashion house, Rei Kawakubo, would guest design its autumn collection.
International watchmakers pinned their hopes on Asia and other developing economies Wednesday amid warnings the industry could be undermined by the growing turmoil on financial markets.
In the 1980s, Diep Bach Duong worked for a pittance as a bureaucrat in communist Vietnam. Now, she cruises around in a new Rolls-Royce and carries a Louis Vuitton handbag.
In Russia, nationalism now comes pret-a-porter. After three years working on pro-Kremlin rallies, Antonia Shapovalova, 20, is now putting patriotic slogans on a catwalk collection.
International watchmakers opened their annual showcase fair here on Wednesday with a warning that the industry could be undermined "at any time" by turmoil on financial markets.
