Culture
Reinventing Football: Which laws should change? Handball? Offside? Penalties?
Will VAR ever be accepted? Perhaps not in its current form, so how about adapting it to a challenge system? You might not have heard of…
Archive
The Latest
Business
Straits Trading partners Cromwell, divests 19.9% of Australian industrial portfolio for S$40.5m
Mainboard-listed Straits Trading announced a partnership with Cromwell Property Group on Tuesday (Nov 11) to grow its Australian…
Business
5 free Windows apps that outperform the built-in ones
It’s not the coolest phrase in the world to utter, but here goes: I love Windows. Maybe you do too. Maybe you don’t, but you’re forced to…
Culture
‘Predator: Badlands’ Dominates U.K., Ireland Box Office
Disney’s “Predator: Badlands” ruled the U.K. and Ireland box office, opening to £2.3 million ($3.1 million), according to Comscore. The…
Business
Thailand’s central bank chief breaks tradition with a simple ‘hello’
“JUST popping in to say hello.” Late one Tuesday night, Bank of Thailand Governor Vitai Ratanakorn surprised more than a hundred…
Business
SoftBank-backed travel app Klook files for US IPO
TRAVEL and leisure booking platform Klook Technology has filed for an initial public offering in New York, as signs emerged of a potential…
Business
Malo Comes Back to the U.S. With Women’s Capsule at Saks, Neiman Marcus
MILAN — Luxury Italian cashmere brand Malo is coming back Stateside, courtesy of an exclusive partnership with Saks Global. Less than…
Beauty
Baobab Collection Eyes U.S. for Expansion
Baobab Collection is expanding in more ways than one. The Belgian home fragrance brand is setting its sights on the U.S. market, with a…
Lifestyle
Why Black Beauty Founders Are Turning to TikTok Shop to Build Brands
On TikTok Shop, an ecosystem of fast-growth, Black-owned beauty brands is taking shape. It’s a group that includes emerging brands — for…
Beauty
The 10 Most-loved Fragrance Brands on Social Media
The fragrance game’s social media “who’s who” is seeing some shake-ups. Phlur, one of the more affordable — and certainly most prolific —…
Business
The Latest Beauty Executive Moves at Beiersdorf, Sol de Janeiro and More
Thomas Schwulera has been named vice president beauty at Zalando, the Berlin-based online platform for fashion and style. Over the past…
Business
EXCLUSIVE: Aeyde Treats Itself With New Home for 10th Anniversary
MILAN — “If there could be one gift, then I’d like to stay around for the next 20 years,” said Luisa Dames tuning in on a video call from…
News
Hundreds arrested in high street crime crackdown
Rebecca Wearn, Ed Thomas and Patrick Clahane Targeted raids on high street premises such as mini-marts, vape shops, barbers and takeaways…
News
’Homeland’s Most Thrilling Storyline Was Never About the Espionage or Terrorists
Few shows have broken into the public zeitgeist quite like Homeland, which literalized many of the fears about terrorism and domestic…
News
Jon Stewart Slams Democrats for Conceding in Government Shutdown Fight: ‘They F—ing Caved’
On this week’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart came after Democrats for voting to end the government shutdown without extending…
News
The challenge of commemorating WW1 without any living veterans
Allan LittleSenior correspondent George Bell and Thomas McGill were cousins. Their families came from the small village of Glenluce in…
Culture
Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese Film Legend That Starred in ‘Ran,’ ‘Harakiri’ and ‘The Human Condition’ Trilogy, Dies at 92
Tatsuya Nakadai, one of Japan’s most celebrated stage and screen actors who was a frequent collaborator of director Masaki Kobayashi and…
Business
Private funding in South-east Asia’s digital economy lags global level: report
Private funding for South-east Asia’s digital economy grew 15 per cent from a year earlier to US$7.7 billion in the 12 months to June…
Business
Sony Lifts Forecast as Music Division Soars on ‘Demon Slayer’ Boom
Sony Group Corporation lifted its annual earnings forecast after posting double-digit profit growth for the July–September quarter, fueled…
News
Asia: Stocks rise as record US shutdown nears end
MOST Asian markets rose for the second day in a row on Tuesday as US lawmakers edged towards ending a record government shutdown. The…
Business
'I use buy now pay later scheme for everything - I'm £3k in debt'
Stephanie MiskinBBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Investigations For single mum-of-four Abi, the debts she has built up by using buy now, pay…
Celebrity
Jeff Goldblum ‘Stopped Eating Meat’ After Grappling with Themes of Animal Cruelty in ‘Wicked: For Good’: ‘It’s Changed Me’
Jeff Goldblum says he’s gone vegetarian after playing the Wizard of Oz in Jon M. Chu’s blockbuster sequel “Wicked: For Good.” During a…
Fashion
Concentration of corporate power a ‘huge’ concern: UN rights chief
A FEW tech giants accumulating massive power coupled with artificial intelligence is posing huge global rights challenges and needs…
News
Senate passes spending package to reopen government; House up next
The Senate on Monday night passed a spending package to reopen the government through at least January, after Republicans won a figurative…