Valentine’s Day a rosy opportunity for jobless Colombians
Valentine's Day is a crazy rush for Colombia, one of the biggest flower exporters in the world, resulting in huge demand for labor in...
Cult Paris fashion store Colette to close
The cult Paris concept store Colette-a regular haunt of Hollywood stars as well as fashionistas-will close its doors in December, its owners said yesterday....
Why top fashion models never smile
They wear the world's most beautiful and expensive clothes yet their faces are the picture of blank boredom. Why do fashion models always look...
Alicia Keys, Stella McCartney in breast cancer campaign
US singer Alicia Keys and fashion designer Stella McCartney launched a new breast cancer awareness campaign Monday aimed at African American women who have...
Taboo or not taboo? Artists expose naked truths in Pakistan
Mohammad Ali sits before a painting of a semi-naked man and declares his work has never been censored in conservative Muslim Pakistan, where an...
A stitch in time: fashioning a life behind bars in Panama
In a small room in a prison on the outskirts of Panama City, Kathia Thomas carefully presses the screen on a digital sewing machine...
World’s oldest figurative artwork uncovered in an Indonesian cave
An Indonesian cave painting that depicts a prehistoric hunting scene could be the world's oldest figurative artwork dating back nearly 44,000 years,...
Enjoy the sights and sounds of Marley at the Bob Marley Museum
The museum is situated on the site of the legendary musician's home, which he purchased in 1975. This house, featuring 19th-century architecture,...
In Mexico, skull faces to scare away US-style Halloween
Mexico's Day of the Dead is almost here, so on weekends the streets teem with Catrinas-people dressed up with elaborate skull faces that recall...
Kuwaiti photographer wins two awards in Italy’s SIPA Contest
ROME: Kuwaiti photographer Ali Al-Zaidi has won two prizes in the Italian Siena International Photography Awards (SIPA Contest). Up to 2,500 photographers from 100...
First lady Melania and the political fashion police
She may be tall, slim and a former model, but incoming first lady Melania Trump faces a new kind of fashion police designers refusing...
Army officer crowned Miss USA
The newly crowned Miss USA is a 26-year-old Army officer from the District of Columbia who gave perhaps the strongest answer of the night...
