Dandyism, or the art of making sure people understand that you appreciate the finer things in life, was the heart of the matter in the latest witty display by Christian Louboutin. Christian Louboutin Staged inside one of Paris’s most elegant locations, the Salon des Aigles in the Hôtel de Crillon, his presentation of his top…
Garuda Indonesia aircraft outside a hangar at the company’s maintenance facility at Soekarno-Hatta … More International Airport in Cengkareng, Indonesia, on Thursday, June 30, 2022. Photographer: Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg © 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP Garuda Indonesia received a 6.65 trillion rupiah ($408 million) loan from the country’s sovereign wealth fund, Danantara Indonesia, to help support the turnaround…
Stranger Things 5 Credit: Netflix Out of all of Netflix’s Original shows and movies, few have helped define the streaming giant’s success like Stranger Things. The first season dropped nearly a decade ago on July 15th, 2016 – long ago, in what feels like a very different world from the one we now inhabit. It…
A model of Kosmos 482, which was originally set to go to Venus Wikimedia Commons More than 50 years after its launch, a Soviet spacecraft called Kosmos 482 is about to come crashing back to Earth. It was originally intended to land on the surface of Venus, but it started to fall apart in low…
Chancellor Rachel Reeves says the government will do “everything in [its] power” to protect people in the UK from the knock-on economic effects of the conflict between Iran and Israel. She would not “take anything off the table” in response to the threat of rising energy costs, she told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg…
As fashion drives towards greater sustainability, resale grows in significance and consumers seek greater value from what they buy, a new study claims that digital product passports — or DPPs — could double fashion products’ lifetime value. And it says that consumers (as well as brands) would reap the rewards. Nobody’s Child DPPs are standardised…
Donald Trump has defended his decision to deploy troops to Los Angeles, saying the city “would be on fire” if he had not intervened to deal with the protests triggered by his immigration crackdown. He added that if required he would “certainly invoke” the Insurrection Act of 1807, a law that empowers the president to…
Making sure this bird is a swallow and not a swift is tough because they look so similar Klein & Hubert/naturepl.com The Tree of LifeMax Telford (John Murray (UK) W. W. Norton (US, 11 November)) Most of us can imagine a tree of life; some can even sketch one out. Branches coming off branches coming…
Sir Mel Stride is pushed to say sorry for Liz Truss’s mini-budget by the BBC’s Nick Robinson. In a speech last week, Stride disowned Truss’s £45bn package of tax cuts, which spooked financial markets and led to the former Tory PM’s resignation in 2022. Listen to the full episode here. Source link
Astronomers have raced to observe asteroid 2024 YR4 NASA/Magdalena Ridge 2.4m telescope/New Mexico Institute of Technology/Ryan The world’s space agencies have reduced the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth to below 1 per cent, which strongly suggests that a potentially devastating collision will be avoided. However, the asteroid will still probably pass extraordinarily near…
