Super-high heels can free women, says legendary French shoe designer Christian Louboutin, who insists that wearing his towering six-inch stilettos is a "form of liberty".
In a last-minute change, Giorgio Armani is holding his Milan Fashion Week runway show behind closed doors Sunday due to concerns raised by the coronavirus, and instead stream the event from inside the empty showroom.
While taboos surrounding online dating are long gone, some of today’s app users are sick of the endless swiping and virtual pen-paling that leads nowhere when it comes to long-term relationships, according to industry leaders who are responding with new ways to get users off their phones and out meeting people in the real world.
French fashion house Chanel said Monday it was postponing a show set for May in Beijing following an outbreak of a new coronavirus that has infected some 70,000 people across China.
Exiled Turkish novelist Asli Erdogan expected to be a convicted woman by now with a life sentence hanging over her head.
The management team of British TV presenter Caroline Flack, who committed suicide Saturday, has accused prosecutors of pursuing a "show trial" over domestic...
French police held a Russian activist and his girlfriend for questioning Sunday over a sex tape released online that brought down President Emmanuel Macron's...
Victoria Beckham chose black dresses paired with distinctive belts and chunky thigh-high platform boots for a collection she characterized as a "gentle...
A patient at a British hospital played the violin while a tumor was removed from her brain so that surgeons could preserve her ability to play music and her...
Lebanon’s Health Ministry said Friday that the H1N1 virus season had begun and that the seasonal influenza virus is being carefully monitored on a weekly basis.
Souraya’s credo may be “the fashion democracy,” but slipping into one of its sequined, feathered gowns is not for the faint of heart.
The smell of Cuban cigar smoke is what hits you first.
A vault in the Arctic built to preserve seeds for rice, wheat and other food staples contains one million varieties with the addition Tuesday of specimens...
Katherine Johnson, the black woman whose mathematical genius took her from a behind-the-scenes job in a segregated NASA as portrayed in the film "Hidden...
Rio de Janeiro kicked off its annual carnival parades Sunday in a swirl of glitter, sequins and barely covered skin, an over-the-top spectacle that this year...
Millions worldwide may have seen the desert fortress in the hit fantasy series "Game of Thrones", but fewer know they can visit the Moroccan village of...
Rima settles in a chair at an upscale Riyadh cafe, looks around carefully and, seeing no one she recognizes, drags on her electronic cigarette before exhaling...
What better way to treat your significant other this Valentine’s Day than with a little luxury at Phoenicia Hotel?
At a sprawling rehabilitation centre on the outskirts of Kabul, dozens of dazed-looking drug addicts clamber out of police buses and shuffle toward the...
“I’m a straight woman who is no longer interested in having relationships with men.”
Mohammed Manea has tended honey bees northeast of Sanaa for years, but despairs that the production of "Yemen's gold" is under threat as the war engulfing the...
Munir al-Shindi could not get parts for his classic cars in the blockaded Gaza Strip, so he decided to fashion his own solution.
In Riyadh's old quarter, a small group of Polish holidaymakers exploring the mud-brick Masmak Fort were making history as some of the first foreign tourists...
People with psychiatric disorders may want to pass on the joint - at least until further research is done, a new Australian study suggests.
Saudi Arabia has eased travel restrictions on women but observers say loopholes still allow male relatives to curtail their movements and, in the worst cases,...
In a ceremony at an ancient, ruined temple in northern Iraq, Faiza Fuad joined a growing number of Kurds who are leaving Islam to embrace the faith of their...
Its wool could once be found in French marketplaces and its cement as far away as Singapore. But after years of fighting, Iraq's Mosul has yet to regain its...
On October 1st, Nigerians all over the world celebrate their independence from British rule, and the Nigerians of Lebanon were no different as they filled the...
Under the patronage and in the presence of the Minister of environment Mr. Fadi Jreissati, Carrefour which is operated in Lebanon by Majid Al Futtaim,...
Fashion aficionados basked in strong late summer sunlight Saturday as runway shows and presentations picked up speed at London Fashion Week.
Eleven more women have accused Spanish opera star Placido Domingo of sexual misconduct, allegations that the leading tenor described Thursday as “riddled with...
The longest queues at the Venice Film Festival have not been to see Hollywood stars like Brad Pitt or Scarlett Johansson.
Germans Wednesday celebrated 70 years of the currywurst, a Berlin specialty of sliced sausage smothered in curry powder and ketchup, as they celebrated its...
Crowds of children bustle around chessboards in Nigeria’s Lagos, figuring out their next moves as part of a project that aims to bring hope in one of the...
When you shop for a new sofa or another piece of furniture, it’s not hard to envision how it might look in your living room.
Five years ago, for her 27th birthday, Lorelei Bandrovschi gave up drinking for a month on a dare.
A bartender asks Gavin Smith whether he fancies a citrus pale ale or Kolsch-style lager at the Newman Arms - a London pub dating back to 1730.