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New creative director’s reinvented bags, tweed jackets drive 2% revenue rise to $19.3 billion in 2025 Photo: The logo of fashion house Chanel is seen on a store in Paris, France/Reuters Parisian fashion house Chanel has drawn in shoppers who had never bought the brand before, as creative director Matthieu Blazy’s reinvented versions of classic … Read more
New York’s Jalen Brunson drives around James Harden and Sam Merrill in the Knicks’ overtime victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers in game one of the NBA Eastern Conference finals. Photo: AFP LONDON: The New York Knicks, fueled by 38 points from Jalen Brunson, erased a 22-point fourth-quarter deficit to stun the Cleveland Cavaliers 115-104 in … Read more
Announces assessed marks for candidates of leaked maths and computer science papers Cambridge International Education (CIE) on Wednesday announced that the replacement exam for the postponed A Level Mathematics Paper 32 would now be held on June 8 as part of the June 2026 examination series, while also confirming the use of assessed marks for … Read more
Cuba’s ambassador to the United Nations said in an interview that Havana wanted to talk but the Trump administration was creating pretexts for military action.
Neptune’s moon system is bizarre. Nearly half of its 16 known moons orbit backward relative to the planet’s spin, and one of these stands out as particularly odd: Triton, a large, icy world that is about 1,680 miles across, slightly smaller than Earth’s moon. Elsewhere in the solar system, other large moons orbit forward, reflecting … Read more
Politics isn’t supposed to influence the international song contest, but more than one official commented on how countries voted this year.
Boots Riley’s sci-fi crime comedy stars Keke Palmer, Demi Moore in tale of shoplifters taking on fashion mogul Photo: Boots Riley and LaKeith Stanfield, promoting the film “I Love Boosters”, pose before the state of the industry/ Reuters After director Boots Riley sold his dark comedy film Sorry to Bother You at the Sundance Film Festival … Read more
The post of surgeon general has remained empty since President Trump took office last year.
Kylian Mbappe, in white, in action for France against Brazil in March — these two nations are among the leading contenders to win the upcoming World Cup. Photo: AFP/File LONDON: With the start of the 2026 World Cup in North America now barely three weeks away, AFP Sport runs the rule over the leading contenders … Read more
UK National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell meets Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif in Islamabad on Wednesday. Photo: X/ PMO The United Kingdom’s National Security Adviser (NSA) Jonathan Powell on Wednesday conveyed the appreciation of the British government for Pakistan’s “constructive role in regional diplomacy” to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif amid efforts to yield a solution to the … Read more