Marine Serre selects Seoul to open a flagship store
Published October 23, 2025 After taking over the windows at Galeries Lafayette earlier this year…
IKEA profit falls 26% to $2 billion as US tariffs fuel costs
By Reuters Published November 7, 2025 Sweden’s Inter IKEA, which supplies furniture to IKEA stores around the world, said on Friday its annual operating profit dropped 26% as the impacts of US tariffs drove up costs. Interior design items are put on display at the IKEA store in London, Britain November 28, 2023 – REUTERS/Maja…
Lose weight or lose your jobs, offshore workers told
Rebecca Curran,BBC Scotland and Ken Banks,North east Scotland reporter Getty Images Thousands of North Sea oil workers are being told they must lose weight if they are to keep flying offshore – or face losing their jobs. From November next year, industry body Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) said the maximum clothed weight for a worker…
German nurse gets life in jail after killing 10 to reduce work
Getty Images A palliative care nurse in Germany has been sentenced to life in prison after he was convicted of the murder of 10 patients and the attempted murder of 27 others. Prosecutors alleged that the man, who has not been publicly named, injected his mostly elderly patients with painkillers or sedatives in an effort…
Troubled Aeffe closes Alberta Ferretti’s Rome store
Translated by Nicola Mira Published November 7, 2025 Aeffe has closed down the Alberta Ferretti monobrand store at via dei Condotti 34 in Rome, cashing in on over €9 million for the lease’s early termination. See fashion showAlberta Ferretti – Fall/Winter 2025-26 – Womenswear – Italy – Milan – ©Launchmetrics/spotlight The operation is part of…
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
Noel Titheradge,investigations correspondent and Olga Malchevska BBC ChatGPT told Viktoria that it would assess a method of suicide “without unnecessary sentimentality” Warning – this story contains discussion of suicide and suicidal feelings Lonely and homesick for a country suffering through war, Viktoria began sharing her worries with ChatGPT. Six months later and in poor mental…
French government defends Poste agreement with China’s Temu
By Reuters Published November 7, 2025 France’s commerce minister on Friday defended a recent deal between the state-owned postal service and Chinese e-commerce site Temu, agreed just weeks before the Paris prosecutor launched an investigation into several online marketplaces. The logo of French group La Poste is seen on a building in Paris, France, April…
Grieving families’ despair at care home inspection gaps
Eleanor Layhe, Jemma Woodman and Ella Rule,South West Trudy Polkinghorn Lugh Baker died in 2021 and his mother, Trudy Polkinghorn, said she “was so angry” with the regulator, the CQC Care homes that are graded as inadequate or requiring improvement are often not being reinspected for a year or more, a BBC investigation has found….
Indian beauty retailer Nykaa posts more than three-fold profit jump on robust makeup demand
By Reuters Published November 7, 2025 Indian beauty retailer Nykaa‘s quarterly profit more than trebled on Friday, boosted by steady demand for makeup and skincare products as well as new tie-ups with global brands. Nykaa retails multi-brand goods and has its own makeup line Nykaa Cosmetics – Nykaa Cosmetics The company, formally known as FSN…
‘Nothing to negotiate’ with Shein boss, says France’s trade minister
By AFP Published November 7, 2025 “For now, I have absolutely no intention of meeting him. We have to be firm. We have to protect ourselves,” said French trade minister Serge Papin on France’s RMC radio, referring to the harms caused by Shein, a platform targeted by suspension proceedings in the country. “I have nothing…
Cambridge ‘swimming cap’ brings hope for brain-injured babies
Janine MachinEast of England technology correspondent, in Cambridge BBC Researchers say their “swimming cap”, which uses light and ultrasound to improve brain monitoring in newborns, is the first of its kind in the world Three-week-old Theo is fast asleep in a cot, unaware he is helping to trial new technology that could change the lives…
