After nine days of catwalk presentations, Paris Fashion Week came to a close March 7, with some of the world’s most prestigious fashion houses showcasing their Fall/Winter 2012 collections. Here is a roundup of some of the biggest trends to emerge from the event, where leather came in all shapes and forms and green emerged [...]
The finance ministers of the eurozone say Greece can receive a first batch of bailout money of up to €35.5 billion ($46.9 billion) to fund a massive debt relief deal with private investors. The ministers also say that Greece has fulfilled the conditions to soon get approval for the remainder of the €130 billion bailout. [...]
Pope Benedict XVI has denounced gay marriage in a speech to US bishops visiting Vatican City. The Pope warned of “powerful political and cultural currents seeking to alter the legal definition of marriage”. He also urged the bishops to emphasise to their Church that premarital sex and cohabitation was “gravely sinful” and “damaging to the [...]
A series of Israeli airstrikes targeted suspected militants across Gaza overnight, killing 12 Palestinians and injuring 16, Palestinian medical officials said early Saturday. In what appeared to be the initial attack, an Israeli airstrike killed two men who were traveling in a police vehicle in Gaza City, the officials said. One of the men was [...]
The Pentagon is planning to restart programs that would fund military training and equipment in Yemen, nearly a year after they were shut down because of escalating chaos in the embattled country. While no agreements have been cemented, U.S. defense officials said as much as $75 million in military assistance could begin to flow later [...]
Several thousand Russians gathered in central Moscow on Saturday for a rally seen as a test of the opposition’s ability to mount a sustained challenge to President-elect Vladimir Putin. Demonstrators carried white balloons and wore white ribbons, the symbols of protests that began over a disputed parliamentary poll on December 4 and are intended now [...]
Kofi Annan has arrived in Damascus to launch the latest initiative to stop the bloodshed in Syria, but opposition leaders said that any deal with President Bashar al-Assad was unthinkable while civilians were being killed by government forces. Opposition activists said that at least 26 people were killed across Syria on Friday, but there were [...]
NORTH Korea has agreed to suspend its nuclear weapons programme in a surprise and promising recent breakthrough. This could pave the way for the resumption of stalled and deadlocked talks and a possible lasting nuclear disarmament deal with the stealthy, distrustful, paranoid and enigmatic regime in North Korea. The announcement of the latest agreement was [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai noted progress on Thursday in long-stalled efforts to broker an agreement guiding U.S.-Afghan relations after most foreign troops withdraw, the White House said. White House spokesman Jay Carney said the two leaders spoke in a video call. “The leaders noted progress toward concluding a strategic partnership [...]
Pakistan has banned Ahle Sunnah Wal Jamaat, the largest Islamic extremist group in the troubled country, as part of its fight against terrorism that has plagued the Islamic nation’s security and economy. The head of the group has described the ban as preposterous, BBC has said in a report. Activists from the pro-al-Qaeda group formerly [...]