By Reuters Published November 16, 2025 A French consumer watchdog found that besides Chinese fast-fashion retailer Shein, five other online platforms sold illicit products in France, a spokesperson for Commerce Minister Serge Papin said on Friday. Temu The watchdog, called DGCCRF, said AliExpress and Joom were selling child-like sex dolls, while weapons such as brass…
Jessica LaneEast Yorkshire and Lincolnshire BBC Rosie Halsall, 18, wants to make free sports bras and fitting available in secondary schools A former Team GB roller derby skater says the cost of sports bras is discouraging younger females taking part in physical activity. Rosie Halsall, 18, from Sheffield, is campaigning for free sports bras and…
Electricity keeps modern life running, from cars and phones to computers and nearly every device we rely on. It works through the movement of electrons traveling through a circuit. Although these particles are far too small to see, the electric current they produce flows through wires in a way that resembles water moving through a…
Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found that the well-known Pleiades star cluster, often called the “Seven Sisters,” represents only the bright center of a much larger community of related stars. By analyzing data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope, the…
Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have captured a star in the act of exploding, right as the blast pushed through its surface. This moment revealed the shape of the explosion during its earliest stage, a phase so brief that it would have disappeared from view within a day….
By AFP Published November 16, 2025 Is India the new El Dorado for French luxury brands? For two decades, the most prestigious brands have dreamed of India, but the world’s most populous country is still a long way from meeting their expectations. Pedestrians walk past the Galeries Lafayette store in Bombay on 15 October 2025….
Published November 16, 2025 Over the first nine months of the year, the French leather industry recorded a 3% decline in exports to 13.7 billion euros, according to the Economic Observatory of Alliance France Cuir, which cites a drop in orders from Asia and the United States. Shutterstock The Observatory’s economic report notes a 7%…
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Published November 17, 2025 Perfect Moment announced on Friday sales for the second quarter surged 24% to $4.8 million, on the back of strong wholesale revenues at the après skiwear brand. Perfect Moment The London-based company said wholesale revenues skyrocketed 61% for the three months ending September 30, thanks to growth across its wholesale order book…
By Bloomberg Published November 17, 2025 When Bernard Arnault, one of the world’s richest men and chairman of LVMH, dropped by Shanghai in September, many assumed his itinerary would be routine: check in on Louis Vuitton, Dior, and the rest of his empire’s boutiques in China’s most prestigious malls. But instead, Arnault did something unexpected….
