Neil Patrick Harris Talks ?HIMYM? Wedding ? and His Own!

Neil Patrick Harris has a lot on his plate these days. The actor not only is starring in Smurfs 2, but is also currently shooting the final season of his hit show How I Met Your Mother ? and if that wasn?t enough, he?s hitting some dad milestones, as well.

Neil, who admits he wasn?t exactly a Smurfs fanatic?when he was younger, says the sequel is ?way better than the first one.? His proof? His 3-year-old twins were able to sit through the entire movie.

And speaking of his kids, NPH recently tweeted about the joys of dropping them off for the first time at preschool. So how is the dad handling his little one?s growing up?

?I?m a big, big fan of them learning things and experiencing things,? he tells us. ?You know, I only have so many things I know how to do and there?s only so many books to read at our place, so the fact that they can go meet new adult teachers that have education and kids with different backgrounds is the most amazing thing ever.?

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And when he?s not dropping his kids off at school, Neil is busy shooting the final season of HIMYM. ?The whole thing takes place in honoring how a wedding works with different family members and the mayhem that happens,? he says. NPH adds that although it?s the last season of the hit show, there?s no time for tears. ?I?m really proud of what we?ve done for eight years and we?re ending it on a high note and I think it?s a good way to do it structurally.?

With the characters on HIMYM attending a wedding, we had to ask, where does a wedding fall in his own life?

The actor, who has been engaged to David Burtka for years admits: ?Well, it?s such a weird question because ? inevitably it seems we will get married because we have two kids and we?ve been engaged for six-and-a-half years or so, but then that seems like it?s inevitably like, ?We?re about to get married!??

?[And] we?re planning on moving to a different coast, and I alway used to say once Prop 8 had been?eviscerated?we?d be able to get married in California, now that?s gone and we can get married here, but we?re about to split and head east, so we?re having conversations about what the next step is and where the ideal place to do that is.?

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However, Neil does share, ?I?d rather call him my husband than my partner!?I think partner is such a weird name for a same sex significant other. It sounds like we?re either business partners or cowboys.?

And as for if there are more kids in the future for him and David, NPH reveals not any time soon. ?Doubtful. We really lucked out. We have two kids. They?re twins. One boy, one girl. They?re both happy, healthy, and we?re over the moon with them ? I think David deserves a time to shine.?

Listen to the full interview above to hear about who NPH wants to judge American Idol and more.

Catch the season premiere of the final season of HIMYM on?Monday, September 23 at 8 p.m. CBS.

Source: http://ryanseacrest.com/2013/07/30/neil-patrick-harris-talks-himym-wedding-and-his-own/

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Simon Cowell To Be A Daddy?With His Pal?s Wife Lauren Silverman!

Simon Cowell To Be A Daddy…With His Pal’s Wife Lauren Silverman!

Simon Cowell is expecting a baby with New York socialite Lauren Silverman, who happens to still be married to real estate mogul Andrew Silverman. Andrew is actually a close friend to Simon and they have all gone on vacation together on their yachts. A close friend to Simon said that Lauren has revealed that she ...

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Earthquakes: Another source of global-warming gas, scientists say

A team of scientists has linked a major earthquake in southwest Asia in 1945 to the ongoing release of methane gas from the Arabian seafloor.

By Elizabeth Barber,?Contributor / July 29, 2013

Beachgoers wade into the Arabian Sea in the Indian state of Kerala. A team of scientists has found that a 1945 earthquake there released trapped methane from the seafloor, a find that could have bearing on future climate models.

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A devastating earthquake in 1945 sent millions of cubic feet of methane bubbling up to the earth?s surface, scientists have found, in new research that could add another source of the greenhouse gas to future climate models.

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The latest research joins burgeoning scientific interest in the potential contribution of methane, a greenhouse gas that is significantly more effective as a heat trapper than carbon dioxide, to global warming. Last week, a separate article in Nature called the methane gas below the Arctic ?a global economic time-bomb,? referring to the potential costs to the world should global warming thin the Arctic ice enough to release the gas there.

This latest paper, though, identifies not a manmade source of atmospheric methane, but a natural one: earthquakes.

?It had earlier been speculated that there was a direct connection between earthquakes and methane seepage,? says David Fischer, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bremen in Germany and the lead author on the paper, published in Nature Geoscience. ?But we are the first to prove it and suggest the mechanistic natural process behind it.?

Fischer and his team began their project looking not necessarily for an earthquake-methane link, but for a general portrait of where methane could be found in marine sediments. First, the team analyzed sediments drilled in 2007 from the northern Arabian Sea, near Pakistan?s coast. Sure enough, there was methane there: one of those cores had methane just 5.2 feet below the sea floor, a sign of some cataclysmic event that has sent the gas surging upward, the scientists found.

And that event, the scientists realized, was readily available: an 8.1 magnitude earthquake ? the strongest earthquake ever reported in the Arabian Sea ? had roiled southwestern Asia in 1945, sending a tsunami plunging into India and Pakistan and killing some 4,000 people.

?We wanted to investigate if, and where, methane seeps out of the sediments,? says Dr. Fischer. ?Only at a later stage we inferred a causal relation of the seepage and the earthquake. This was not entirely anticipated.?

Overall, the team found that some 261 million cubic feet of methane have leaked up to the earth?s surface during the few decades following the major earthquake. That seepage is ongoing, the scientists said.

Major earthquakes and their associated methane gas release could be an included factor in future climate change models, though much research is still needed to determine how much that gas might influence global warming, Fischer said.?

"We simply can?t tell yet, if and how much our findings affect climate models,? says Fischer. ?Maybe it turns out to be important, maybe it doesn't. We?ll see."

"We just wanted to make sure that those colleagues writing the (very important!) IPCC-reports [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports] are aware there might be another source of methane/carbon to the environment,? he says.

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What Is the Icelandic Word for ?Four??

How many sheep in Icelandic? Fj?rar or fj?rir?

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The following is an excerpt from Thinking in Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math, by Daniel Tammet, out now from Little, Brown.

Ask an Icelander what comes after three and he will answer, ?Three what?? Ignore the warm blood of annoyance as it fills your cheeks, and suggest something, or better still, point. ?Ah,? our Icelander replies. Ruffled by the wind, the four sheep stare blankly at your index finger. ?Fj?rar,? he says at last.

However, when you take your phrase book?presumably one of those handy, rain-resistant brands?from your pocket and turn to the numbers page, you find, marked beside the numeral four, fj?rir. This is not a printing error, nor did you hear the Icelander wrong. Both words are correct; both words mean ?four.? This should give you your first inkling of the sophistication with which these people count.

Icelanders have highly refined discrimination for the smallest quantities. ?Four? sheep differ in kind from ?four,? the abstract counting word. No farmer in Hverager?i would ever dream of counting sheep in the abstract. Nor, for that matter, would his wife or son or priest or neighbor. To list both words together, as in a textbook, would make no sense to them whatsoever.

This numerical diversity applies not only to sheep. Naturally enough, the woolly mammals feature little in town dwellers? talk. Like you and me, my friends in Reykjav?k talk about birthdays and buses and pairs of jeans but, unlike in English, in Icelandic these things each require their own set of number words.

For example, a toddler who turns 2 is tveggja years old. And yet the pocket phrase book will inform you that ?two? is tveir. Age, abstract as counting to our way of thinking, becomes in Icelandic a tangible phenomenon. Perhaps you too sense the difference: The word tveggja slows the voice, suggesting duration. We hear this possibly even more clearly in the word for a 4-year-old: fj?gurra. Interestingly, these sounds apply almost exclusively to the passage of years? the same words are hardly ever used to talk about months, days, or weeks. Clock time, on the other hand, renders the Icelander almost terse as a tick: the hour after one o?clock is tv?.

What about buses? Here numbers refer to identity rather than quantity. In Britain or America, we say something like, ?the No. 3 bus,? turning the number into a name. Icelanders do something similar. Their most frequent buses are each known by a special number word. In Reykjav?k, the No. 3 bus is simply ?ristur (whereas to count to three the Icelander says ??r?r?). Fjarki is how to say ?four? when talking buses in Iceland.

A third example is pairs of something?whether jeans or shorts, socks or shoes. In this case, Icelanders consider ?one? as being plural: einar pair of jeans, instead of the phrase book einn.

In English, I would suggest, numbers are considered more or less ethereal?as categories, not qualities. Not so the smallest numbers in Icelandic. It is as though each corresponded to a delicate nuance of color. Where the English word red is abstract, indifferent to its object, words like crimson, scarlet, and burgundy possess their own particular shade of meaning and application.

We can only speculate as to the reason why Icelanders stop at the number five (for which, like every number thereafter, a single word exists). According to psychologists, humans can count in flashes only up to quantities of four. We see three buttons on a shirt and say ?three?; we glance at four books on a table and say ?four.? No conscious thought attends this process?it seems to us as effortless as the speech with which we pronounce the words. The same psychologists tell us that the smallest numbers loom largest in our minds. Asked to pick a number between one and 50, we tend toward the shallow end of the scale (far fewer say ?40? than ?14?). It is one possible explanation for why only the commonest quantities feel real to us, why most numbers we accept only on the word of a teacher or textbook. Forty, to us, is but a vague notion; 14, on the other hand, is a quantity within our reach. Four, we recognize as something solid and definite. In Icelandic, you can give your baby the name ?Four.?

This profusion of Icelandic words for the purpose of counting appears to be an exception to the rule. Many of the world?s tribal languages, in contrast, make do with only a handful of names for numbers. The Veddas, an indigenous people of Sri Lanka, are reported to have only words for the numbers one (ekkamai) and two (dekkamai). For larger quantities, they continue: otameekai, otameekai, otameekai ... (?and one more, and one more, and one more ... ?). Another example is the Caquintes of Peru, who count one (aparo) and two (mavite). Three they call ?it is another one?; four is ?the one that follows it.?

In Brazil, the Munduruku relay quantity by according an extra syllable to each new number: one is pug, two is xep xep, three is ebapug, and four is edadipdip. They count, understandably, no higher than five.

Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_good_word/2013/07/cultural_differences_in_counting_numbers_and_math_icelandic_numbers_and.html

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Sony, Panasonic promise 300-gigabyte discs by 2015

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A standard capacity DVD, like the one pictured, has a capacity of about 4.7 GB; a Blu-ray can have around 50GB; and the proposed format could have up to 300GB.

First there was the CD, which held 700 megabytes. Then the DVD, which held 5 gigabytes. Then the Blu-ray disc, with 50 gigs. What's next? Sony and Panasonic hope it will be a 300-gigabyte disc they're jointly researching that could hit in 2015. But might we have abandoned discs altogether by then?

Sony wrote up the joint-development agreement in a press release, citing the many strengths of optical media as justification for the project:

Optical discs have excellent properties to protect them against the environment, such as dust-resistance and water-resistance, and can also withstand changes in temperature and humidity when stored.

However, both Sony and Panasonic recognized that optical discs will need to accommodate much larger volumes of storage in years to come given the expected future growth in the archive market, and responded by formulating this agreement.

For years, the companies that make discs like these have worked to make the lasers, materials, and other components more precise, and have added more recordable layers, improving capacity. Just this last November, TDK announced a 1-terabyte disc based on refined versions of today's technologies.

But reading between the lines and taking current trends into account, the companies' enthusiasm seems a little forced. After all, the most popular new devices in the world, tablets and smartphones, both rely exclusively on flash memory rather than spacious but cumbersome hard drives, let alone optical discs. And that's only when they're not streaming that data or downloading it from cloud storage.

Even full-on computers, desktop and laptop, are far less likely to have a disc drive than they used to. Apple took the lead in 2008 with the drive-less MacBook Air, and since then support for discs has become increasingly rare.

That's why the proposed format is being framed as more of a professional tool: a high-capacity medium for the companies' pro-level video cameras and backup archives. After all, Sony and Panasonic gear is deeply embedded in TV and film, and a big bump in capacity like this will be attractive to the many creatives who rely on those devices to store hours of HD video for shows and films.

Will there be a new format war in 2015 as these mega-discs come to market? Or will we have moved on to flash and cloud storage? Chances are a bit of both ? and by making sure that both will actually exist then, Sony and Panasonic are covering their bases.

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. His personal website is coldewey.cc.

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Princesses in north India win a royal fortune

NEW DELHI ? It has all the makings of a best-selling novel. An Indian maharaja crowned as a toddler and rich beyond imagination falls into a deep depression in old age after losing his only son.

After his own death a few months later, his daughters, the princesses, don't get the palaces, gold and vast lands they claim as their birthright. Instead, they are given a few dollars a month from palace officials they accuse of scheming to usurp the royal billions with a forged will. The fight rages for decades.

On Saturday, an Indian court brought the chapter to a close, ruling that the will of Maharaja Harinder Singh Brar of Faridkot was fabricated.

His daughters will now inherit the estimated $4 billion estate, instead of a trust run by his former servants and palace officials.

Chief judicial magistrate Rajnish Kumar Sharma, in the northern city of Chandigarh, finally gave his ruling on the case filed by the maharaja's eldest daughter, Amrit Kaur, in 1992, a court official said Monday. The court official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

The Faridkot riches were legend in India's Punjab state.

The estate includes a 350-year-old fort, palaces and forests lands in Faridkot, a mansion surrounded by acres of land in the heart of India's capital New Delhi and similar properties spread across four states. The 18 cars include a Rolls Royce, a Daimler and a Bentley, all in running condition.

In addition, there is an aerodrome in Faridkot, spread over 200 acres, which is being used by the Punjab state administration and the army.

And more than 10 billion rupees ($170 million) worth of gold, jewelry studded with diamonds, rubies and emeralds.

Brar himself was a boy-king who grew up amid the final gasps of India's royal families. He was crowned maharaja of the tiny kingdom of Faridkot in western Punjab ? the last maharaja it would turn out ? at the age of 3, upon his father's death.

After India won independence from Britain in 1947, Faridkot and hundreds of other small kingdoms were absorbed into the country, royal titles and power were abolished and the royal families were given a fixed salary from the Indian government. That payment, the "privy purse," was abolished in 1971.

Some royals slipped into penury, some converted their former palaces into luxury hotels to provide them an income.

A few, like Brar, held onto their enormously profitable real estate and continued to live a rarefied life.

But in 1981, Brar's only son, Tikka Harmohinder Singh, was killed in a road accident and he tumbled into a deep depression. It was then, his three daughters' argued, that his trusted aides connived to deprive his family of their fortune. They set up the Meharawal Khewaji Trust, naming all the maharaja's servants, officials and lawyers as trustees.

A short time after Brar's death in 1989, a will leaving all his wealth to the trust became public. The two younger princesses, Deepinder Kaur and Maheepinder Kaur, were given monthly salaries of $20 and $18 respectively. Brar's wife, mother and oldest daughter ? the presumed heir ? were cut off without a penny.

The trust told the court that Amrit Kaur had been shunned by her father for marrying against his wishes.

Kaur told the court that her father had never made a will and that she had remained with him until his death.

In the two decades that it has taken for the court to give its ruling, much has changed. The value of the estates has increased manifold. The New Delhi properties alone are worth about $350 million. One of his daughters, Maheepinder Kaur, died. Amrit and Deepinder are in their 80s.

The family's lawyer, Vikas Jain, told India's Financial Express newspaper that some of the fortune had been squandered.

The trust is weighing a challenge to the Chandigarh court order in a higher court, news reports said Monday.

"The will was real and it was not forged. The trust, after going through the order in detail, could challenge it in an upper court," Ranjit Singh, a lawyer for the trust, was quoted as telling The Times of India newspaper.

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UK police arrest man over Twitter threats

LONDON (AP) ? British police on Tuesday arrested a second man in connection with an investigation into violent threats made against a lawmaker and a feminist campaigner on Twitter.

Labour Party legislator Stella Creasy was targeted with threats of rape and murder after she tweeted in support of feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez, who received a torrent of abuse after she campaigned, successfully, for the image of famed author Jane Austen to appear on a British bank note.

The Metropolitan Police confirmed Tuesday it is investigating reports of "malicious communications" on Twitter in relation to the two separate victims. The arrest of a 25-year-old man came as part of those investigations, police added.

Earlier this week, police questioned and released on bail a 21-year-old man in connection with messages sent to Criado-Perez.

The incidents have led to calls for Twitter to take action against abusive commenters, known as trolls.

Twitter said it took the issue seriously and planned to expand a "report abuse" button, already available on its iPhone app, to other platforms.

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Jobs and education needed to win British over to fracking - survey

LONDON (Reuters) - Government incentives for affected communities must be followed up by education and job creation to convince a sceptical British public that fracking for shale oil and gas is right, according to a survey of industry professionals.

Some 70 percent of almost 200 respondents to the survey by data provider Rigzone believe the British government was right to offer incentives to communities where hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, and horizontal drilling will be used.

But 51 per cent believed this will not be enough to win the public debate.

None of the respondents flagged the need to provide additional incentives to exploration companies, Rigzone said.

The government proposed earlier this month that tax payable on income from shale production should be 30 percent - down from 62 percent for traditional oil and gas.

For the communities, the industry will have to provide 100,000 pounds($152,000) in benefits and 1 percent of the revenue from each production site, the government has said.

Education on the economic benefits of the technology followed by job creation were viewed as the two most important messages to promote now, the survey found.

Industry estimates suggest Britain may have major shale reserves which could help reverse a rising dependency on energy imports, but the industry is having to tread carefully to reassure the public and a vocal environmental lobby.

Opponents see fracking, which forces sand and fluid into shale rocks deep below the surface, as potentially damaging to the environment and to water supplies.

"In the U.S., shale gas extraction has helped stimulate a low cost energy boom that has seen the cost of natural gas effectively drop by 50 per cent since 2007," said Dominic Simpson, Head of Sales of Rigzone in EMEA and APAC regions.

"For the UK to reap a shale gas dividend, it is clear more will need to be done to win the public debate and ensure exploration companies pursue the sizeable onshore market opportunity."

On Thursday last week protests blocked access to a drilling site in southern England as part of a campaign against fracking.

The drilling company, Cuadrilla Resources, has said it got deliveries through over the weekend and hopes to start drilling midweek.

The well in question is not due to be fracked, but Cuadrilla has used the technology elsewhere and holds more shale acreage, so has become a target for protestors.

Rigzone said it surveyed UK-based oil and gas professionals between July 2 to July 8. Nearly 200 responded, with 21 per cent at organizations that have fracking-related operations in Europe and another 13 per cent with operations in another part of the world.

(Reporting by Andrew Callus and Oleg Vukmanovic; Editing by Anthony Barker)

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JPMorgan pays $410 million to settle energy probe?

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JPMorgan Chase announced Tuesday it would pay a total of $410 million to settle allegations of energy market manipulation in California and the Midwest.

In a case that raised eyebrows on both Wall Street and regulatory circles, the giant financial firm said it would pay a civil penalty of $285 million and disgorge $125 million, the latest settlement in a series of high-profile investigations by U.S. federal energy regulators against banks.

The deal closes the book on a probe that dates back more than two years, when California's power grid operator noticed the Wall Street bank was using an "abusive" trading strategy that effectively forced the grid to pay for plants to sit idle, ultimately adding to customers' costs.

Reuters contributed to this report.

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GOP's Obamacare Obsession Is Political Suicide

Many present-day Republicans seem bent on making "Backward, Christian Soldiers" their marching song in their relentless determination to "repeal and replace Obamacare," even to the point of repeating their lemming-like plunge over the cliff of another government shutdown.

More than 60 of them in the House and about a dozen in the Senate have signed letters by conservative GOP Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina pledging to vote to defund President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, despite some party warnings of likely political suicide.

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A luxury British shirt maker called Pink is suing Victoria's Secret for infringement.?

London-based Thomas Pink filed the suit against the British arm of Victoria's Secret in May, alleging that the name of the brand's teen line is confusing to customers, Vogue reports.?

"Thomas Pink is determined to protect the considerable investment that has been made into building the world's luxury leading shirt brand," a spokesperson told Vogue.?

Now Victoria's Secret is fighting back. Last week the lingerie brand filed a declaratory judgment suit in the U.S., seeking to?to establish "the rights of the parties, allowing them to continue the peaceful coexistence that has been in place for many years," according to Vogue.

The teen line has seen wild success in recent years, leading the brand to open standalone stores around the world.?Victoria's Secret just launched two standalone Pink stores in London.?

Victoria's Secret hasn't commented on the suit.?

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House Republicans Underline Threat to Cut Chemical Security Funds

WASHINGTON -- In prelude to a hearing later this week, House Republicans are once again threatening to cut funding for the Homeland Security Department?s controversial chemical security program, arguing that progress toward fully implementing the initiative remains too slow.

In a July 22 letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, House Republicans said that despite some advancement, the DHS effort retains a ?backlog of approximately 3,120 facilities? where site-security plans need review. The missive cites a past finding by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office that it could take up to nine years to review the remaining plans.

At an annual chemical security conference in Baltimore earlier this month, David Wulf, director of the DHS infrastructure security compliance division, sought to portray the program as one that had ?turned a corner.?

He noted that as of last July, the effort had given preliminary approval to only 50 site-security plans, conducted only 10 inspections and had not granted final approval to a single facility-security program since it was first authorized by Congress in 2007.

One year later, the department has provided preliminary approval for ?upwards of 500? site-security plans, has conducted more than 50 inspections and has granted final approval for 160 facility-security plans, he said.

This week, though, the GOP lawmakers underlined their lingering concerns by noting the lethal explosion earlier this year of a Texas fertilizer plant that the program had failed to regulate.

?As the tragic explosion of the West Fertilizer Plant in April has brought to light, DHS is unaware of the existence of thousands of small facilities across the country that are potentially covered? under the law that created the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards, the letter says.

?As the chairmen responsible for authorizing and funding CFATS, we are convinced the program should not continue in its present condition,? states the correspondence, signed by Michael McCaul (R-Texas), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee; Fred Upton (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee; and John Carter (R-Texas), chairman of the House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee. ?While the need to secure American facilities with chemicals of concern is a critical one, the CFATS program is simply not getting the job done.?

The lawmakers noted that the fiscal 2014 appropriations bill for Homeland Security already withholds $20 million in DHS funds until the department submits a report that includes justification for its expenditures and a plan to reduce its backlog. They again asked for this and other information by Sept. 30.

Labor and environmental groups, meanwhile, are arguing that even if it ran more smoothly, the CFATS program could not sufficiently secure dangerous chemicals. That is because the underlying law prohibits the DHS effort from requiring any specific security measures, they say.

Instead, the groups say, the Environmental Protection Agency should use its authority under the Clean Air Act to tighten security measures.

In the wake of the West, Texas, tragedy, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chairwoman of Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has also called on EPA officials to be more proactive in preventing chemical disasters.? Republicans and major industry groups have long been opposed to additional EPA involvement, however.

House Republicans said certain aspects of the DHS program, as it stands, may already be too strict.

In their new letter, they reiterated past concerns that the system the department uses to place facilities into different categories, based on risk, accounts only for the consequences of a disaster at a particular facility and not for the likelihood of such an incident occurring. The category into which a facility is placed can affect the extent to which it is regulated.

McCaul will chair a Homeland Security Committee hearing on the program on Thursday.

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Pocket-lint writes, The Sony Xperia i1, the device otherwise known as the Honami, has popped up in an FFC filing, with some suggesting that this means it is close to launch. Submitted on 23 July, the filing includes a confidentiality request through to 30 September, which...

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China's Tianhe-2 is currently the world's fastest supercomputer, reaching 33.86 petaflops, or 33.86 quadrillion floating-point operations per second.

Today's supercomputers are marvels of computational power, and they are being used to tackle some of the world's biggest scientific problems.

Current models are tens of thousands of times faster than the average desktop computer. They achieve these lightning-fast speeds via parallel processing, in which many computer processors perform computations simultaneously. Supercomputers are used for everything from forecasting weather to modeling the human brain.

What sets supercomputers apart is the size and difficulty of the tasks they can tackle and solve, said Jack Wells, director of science at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

[9 Super-Cool Uses for Supercomputers]

"Supercomputers can do supersize problems," Wells said.

Supercomputers are often built from the same components as regular computers, but they're integrated so they can work together, Wells told LiveScience.

The first supercomputers were developed in the 1960s, designed by electrical engineer Seymour Cray of Control Data Corporation (CDC). In 1964, the company released the CDC 6600, often considered to be the world's first supercomputer. Cray later formed his own company, which made the Cray-1 in 1976 and Cray-2 in 1985.

These early supercomputers had only a few processors, but by the 1990s, the United States and Japan were making ones with thousands of processors. Fujitsu's Numerical Wind Tunnel became the fastest supercomputer in 1994 with 166 processors, followed by the Hitachi SR2201, in 1996, with more than 2,000 processors. The Intel Paragon edged into the lead in 1993. As of June 2013, China's Tianhe-2 was the world's fastest supercomputer.

Supercomputer performance is measured in "flops," short for floating-point operations per second. Today's machines can achieve speeds in petaflops ? quadrillions of flops.

The TOP500 is a ranking of the world's 500 most powerful supercomputers. China?s Tianhe-2 achieves 33.86 petaflops, while the Cray Titan reaches 17.59 petaflops, and IBM's Sequoia ranks third at 17.17 petaflops.

Solving supersize problems
Researchers have harnessed the number-crunching power of supercomputers to work on complex problems in fields ranging from astrophysics to neuroscience.

These computational behemoths have been used to answer questions about the creation of the universe during the Big Bang. Researchers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) simulated how the first galaxies formed, and scientists at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., simulated the birth of stars. Using computers like IBM's Roadrunner at Los Alamos National Laboratory, physicists have probed the mysteries of dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up roughly 25 percent of the mass of the universe.

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Weather forecasting is another area that relies heavily on supercomputing. For example, forecasters used the TACC supercomputer Ranger to determine the path of Hurricane Ike in 2008, improving the five-day hurricane forecast by 15 percent. Climate scientists use supercomputers to model global climate change, a challenging task involving hundreds of variables.

Testing nuclear weapons has been banned in the United States since 1992, but supercomputer simulations ensure that the nation's nukes remain safe and functional. IBM's Sequoia supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California is designed to replace testing of nuclear explosions with improved simulations.

Increasingly, neuroscientists have turned their attention to the daunting task of modeling the human brain. The Blue Brain project at the ?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne in Switzerland, led by Henry Markram, aims to create a complete, virtual human brain. The project scientists are using an IBM Blue Gene supercomputer to simulate the molecular structures of real mammalian brains. In 2006, Blue Brain successfully simulated a complete column of neurons in the rat brain.

Sharing the load
The quintessential supercomputer typically consists of large datacenters filled with many machines that are physically linked together. But distributed computing could also be considered a form of supercomputing; it consists of many individual computers connected by a network (such as the Internet) that devote some portion of their processing power to a large problem.

A well-known example is the SETI@home (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence at home) project, in which millions of people run a program on their computers that looks for signs of intelligent life in radio signals. Another is "Folding at home," a project to predict the 3D structure of proteins ? the biological workhorses that perform vital tasks in our bodies ? from the sequence of molecular chains from which they're made.

In the future, supercomputers will edge toward "exascale" capabilities ? about 50 times faster than current systems, Wells said. This will require greater energy, so energy efficiency will likely become an important goal of future systems. Another trend will be integrating large amounts of data for applications like discovering new materials and biotechnologies, Wells said.

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NBA player faces battery charge in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS -- Unrestricted NBA free agent Daniel Gibson surrendered to police Monday to face a second-degree battery charge.

Gibson is accused of breaking another man's jaw with a punch during an argument at a nightclub on July 8, New Orleans Police spokeswoman Remi Braden said. Gibson's wife, Keyshia (KEY-shuh) Cole, sang at the Essence Festival on July 6.

Online court records show he was released on $20,000 bond.

Gibson said he was protecting his family when the fight occurred at a club where he and Cole had gone to celebrate while in New Orleans.

"It was toward the end of the night," Gibson said. "We encountered a couple of people and I don't know what their motives or intentions were but they came off the wrong way. This guy got real aggressive toward my wife and myself and I did what I felt was necessary to handle the situation."

Gibson said the man said "something" to his wife but wouldn't go into details. "He was very disrespectful toward my wife," he said.

Braden said Gibson's accuser is from St. Rose, about 25 miles from New Orleans. She did not identify him.

Gibson played seven years for the Cleveland Cavaliers but was out with injuries much of last season. He said he turned himself in because, "I felt like I had nothing to hide."

Gibson said he has been in contact with a few teams throughout this summer.

"Then something like this happens and all they (teams) see is that it looks as though I'm out there doing crazy things and I wasn't raised that way. There are a lot of accusations being made and I just want to protect my family and everything I've worked so hard for."

Gibson said no court date has been set.

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10:45 p.m. EDT, July 28, 2013

Greater Hartford Twilight League: Dan Trubia was 2-for-2 with three runs scored in the Vernon Orioles' 10-3 home win over the Connecticut Expos.

Alex Bryce was 2-for-4 with 2 RBI for Vernon and Pat Barnett pitched six innings, allowing five hits in the win. The Orioles improve to 21-5 and the Expos fall to 7-15.

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Syrian troops capture key Homs neighborhood

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) ? Syria's beleaguered opposition forces suffered another blow Monday as government troops captured a key district in the embattled city of Homs that has been a rebel stronghold since the beginning of the country's uprising.

The capture of Khaldiyeh is a setback for the rebels in the strategic central heartland, bringing President Bashar Assad's regime closer to its goal of capturing all of Homs, Syria's third largest city ? including neighborhoods in its Old City that the rebels have held for more than a year.

The opposition acknowledged the loss of Khaldiyeh, although some activists said there were still scattered clashes in northern sectors of the district where rebels were still putting up a fight. A senior member of the Western-backed Syria National Coalition said the regime's gains in Homs are not irreversible.

"It will be difficult, but not impossible to gain back what we've lost in Homs," said Hadi Bahra, a member of the Coalition's political committee.

"Today they (Assad's forces) gain something and the day after tomorrow we take it back," he told The Associated Press from Saudi Arabia.

Syrian TV aired live footage from the neighborhood, showing troops roaming deserted streets and waving flags in front of shell-scarred buildings. Two opposition activists in the area who could normally be contacted via Skype were offline Monday.

State news agency SANA quoted an unnamed army commander saying the fall of Khaldiyeh would significantly boost army operations aimed at dislodging rebels from central areas of Homs. Khaldiyeh is important because it links other rebel-held districts in the heart of the city through a network of tunnels the rebel dug out to ferry weapons and other supplies, the commander said.

A month ago, the government launched a sweeping offensive to retake rebel-held areas of Homs and even if small pockets of resistance remain, its capture would be the second major setback to rebels in central Syria in as many months.

In early June, regime forces captured the strategic town of Qusair in Homs province near the border with Lebanon. Troops have also captured the town of Talkalakh, another border town in the province.

The province of Homs is Syria's largest, and runs from the Lebanese frontier in the west all the way to the border with Iraq and Jordan in the east. The city of Homs serves as a crossroads between the main highway from Damascus to the north and the road west, to the coastal region, which is a stronghold of Assad's Alawite sect.

Khaldiyeh had a population of about 80,000 but only some 2,000 have remained there as residents fled the violence, activists say. The heavy fighting over the past two years has caused extensive damage, with some buildings reduced to rubble.

In a report on Monday, Syrian state TV said "the Syrian army has restored security and stability in the whole neighborhood of Khaldiyeh in Homs."

A Syrian TV reporter embedded with troops in the area gave a live report standing in front of damaged buildings. He interviewed an army officer who said the troops fought a tough battle against rebels who mined buildings and fought from underground tunnels.

"As of this morning, our armed forces in cooperation with the (pro-government paramilitary) National Defense Forces have taken control of Khaldiyeh and are now cleansing the neighborhood," said the officer, surrounded by about a dozen soldiers and plainclothes security agents.

"The fate of terrorists will be under our feet," he said, claiming that all Homs will be soon "cleansed" of rebels.

The Observatory has said that government troops are backed by members of Lebanon's Hezbollah group.

Hezbollah, which did not acknowledge whether its members are fighting in Khaldiyeh, played a major role in a battle last month in Qusair, outside Homs, and lost scores of men there.

Observatory director Rami Abdul-Rahman said regime forces have captured most of the neighborhood apart from some fighting on its southern areas.

Another opposition activist, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, said the battle in Khaldiyeh "is almost over." He acknowledged that troops are almost in full control of the area.

In the northern city of Aleppo, several rebel factions including the al-Qaida-linked Jabhat al-Nusra, or Nusra Front, attacked army posts in two neighborhoods in a an offensive titled "amputating infidels" the Observatory said.

It said rebels captured the neighborhood of Dahret Abed Rabbo and several buildings in Lairamoun there, and that eight government soldiers were killed.

Rebels have been on the offensive in Aleppo province and captured last week the strategic town of Khan el-Assal. Activists and state media said score of troops were killed there after their capture. The Western-backed Syrian National Council condemned the killings.

In the southern region of Quneitra, on the edge of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, government troops captured the town of Mashara on Sunday night after intense fighting, the Observatory said.

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Mroue reported from Beirut. Associated Press writer Barbara Surk in Beirut contributed to this report.

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Past the ivy-covered gates on Ocean Drive, the 1930s mansion is an expression of the designer&#039;s personal style and lust for excess that made it and South Beach a magnet for the creative, artistic and jet set. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/designer-oscar-la-renta-says-galliano-deserves-second-192139556.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/KCk6QGoDcbYvD3MjSI_03w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-26T192139Z_1_CBRE96P1HTC00_RTROPTP_2_FASHION-JOHNGALLIANO.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="File photo of British designer John Galliano in Paris" align="left" title="File photo of British designer John Galliano in Paris" border="0" /></a>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Designer Oscar de la Renta threw his support behind fashion bad boy John Galliano on Friday, saying the disgraced designer should be given a second chance after he was fired for his anti-Semitic rants in a Parisian cafe two years ago. De la Renta described Galliano, who lost his job at the French fashion house Christian Dior and has been shunned by many in the fashion world since the events in 2011, as a &quot;very talented man.&quot; &quot;John has had a lot of issues, health issues, abuse, but I like John. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/designer-oscar-la-renta-says-galliano-deserves-second-192139556.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 15:21:39 -0400Reutersdesigner-oscar-la-renta-says-galliano-deserves-second-192139556<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/designer-oscar-la-renta-says-galliano-deserves-second-192139556.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/KCk6QGoDcbYvD3MjSI_03w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-26T192139Z_1_CBRE96P1HTC00_RTROPTP_2_FASHION-JOHNGALLIANO.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="File photo of British designer John Galliano in Paris" align="left" title="File photo of British designer John Galliano in Paris" border="0" /></a>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Designer Oscar de la Renta threw his support behind fashion bad boy John Galliano on Friday, saying the disgraced designer should be given a second chance after he was fired for his anti-Semitic rants in a Parisian cafe two years ago. De la Renta described Galliano, who lost his job at the French fashion house Christian Dior and has been shunned by many in the fashion world since the events in 2011, as a &quot;very talented man.&quot; &quot;John has had a lot of issues, health issues, abuse, but I like John. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/peter-fonda-sues-dolce-gabbana-nordstrom-3-million-233401341.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ZRIUU2fmAGQt3SCMwmhJnA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-22T233401Z_1_CBRE96L1TGT00_RTROPTP_2_PEOPLE-US-PETERFONDA-LAWSUIT.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Fonda poses for a portrait on a replica of the &quot;Captain America&quot; bike in Glendale" align="left" title="Fonda poses for a portrait on a replica of the &quot;Captain America&quot; bike in Glendale" border="0" /></a>By Tim Kenneally LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Peter Fonda isn&#039;t such an easy rider when it comes to his face being slapped on T-shirts. The &quot;Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry&quot; star is suing clothing manufacturers Dolce &amp; Gabbana and retail chain Nordstrom, claiming that the companies are unlawfully peddling T-shirts bearing the actor&#039;s likeness. Fonda wants $3 million for his trouble. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/peter-fonda-sues-dolce-gabbana-nordstrom-3-million-233401341.htmlMon, 22 Jul 2013 19:34:01 -0400Reuterspeter-fonda-sues-dolce-gabbana-nordstrom-3-million-233401341<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/peter-fonda-sues-dolce-gabbana-nordstrom-3-million-233401341.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ZRIUU2fmAGQt3SCMwmhJnA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-22T233401Z_1_CBRE96L1TGT00_RTROPTP_2_PEOPLE-US-PETERFONDA-LAWSUIT.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Fonda poses for a portrait on a replica of the &quot;Captain America&quot; bike in Glendale" align="left" title="Fonda poses for a portrait on a replica of the &quot;Captain America&quot; bike in Glendale" border="0" /></a>By Tim Kenneally LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Peter Fonda isn&#039;t such an easy rider when it comes to his face being slapped on T-shirts. The &quot;Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry&quot; star is suing clothing manufacturers Dolce &amp; Gabbana and retail chain Nordstrom, claiming that the companies are unlawfully peddling T-shirts bearing the actor&#039;s likeness. Fonda wants $3 million for his trouble. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/former-policeman-turned-actor-dennis-farina-dies-69-182552077.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/erBYGUSstNoJev8WcjXY7A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/445cba8c843c5118380f6a706700fb5d.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - In this undated photo from NBC Universal, Dennis Farina, who plays New York Police Detective Joe Fontana, acts in a scene with Michael Imperioli in the role of Detective Nick Falco, in an episode from NBC&#039;s police drama,&quot;Law &amp; Order.&quot; Farina died suddenly on Monday, July 22, 2013, in Scottsdale, AZriz., after suffering a blood clot in his lung. He was 69. (AP Photo/ NBC Universal,Jessica Burstein)" align="left" title="FILE - In this undated photo from NBC Universal, Dennis Farina, who plays New York Police Detective Joe Fontana, acts in a scene with Michael Imperioli in the role of Detective Nick Falco, in an episode from NBC&#039;s police drama,&quot;Law &amp; Order.&quot; Farina died suddenly on Monday, July 22, 2013, in Scottsdale, AZriz., after suffering a blood clot in his lung. He was 69. (AP Photo/ NBC Universal,Jessica Burstein)" border="0" /></a>By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Dennis Farina, the former Chicago cop turned film and TV actor best known for his role as wise-cracking detective Joe Fontana on the hit NBC police drama &quot;Law &amp; Order,&quot; died in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Monday, his publicist said. He was 69. Farina, who parlayed his experience as a police officer, Chicago-accented baritone and straight talking demeanor into a series of tough-guy roles in Hollywood, died after suffering a blood clot in his lung, his publicist Lori De Waal said. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/former-policeman-turned-actor-dennis-farina-dies-69-182552077.htmlMon, 22 Jul 2013 16:50:59 -0400Reutersformer-policeman-turned-actor-dennis-farina-dies-69-182552077<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/former-policeman-turned-actor-dennis-farina-dies-69-182552077.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/erBYGUSstNoJev8WcjXY7A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/445cba8c843c5118380f6a706700fb5d.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - In this undated photo from NBC Universal, Dennis Farina, who plays New York Police Detective Joe Fontana, acts in a scene with Michael Imperioli in the role of Detective Nick Falco, in an episode from NBC&#039;s police drama,&quot;Law &amp; Order.&quot; Farina died suddenly on Monday, July 22, 2013, in Scottsdale, AZriz., after suffering a blood clot in his lung. He was 69. (AP Photo/ NBC Universal,Jessica Burstein)" align="left" title="FILE - In this undated photo from NBC Universal, Dennis Farina, who plays New York Police Detective Joe Fontana, acts in a scene with Michael Imperioli in the role of Detective Nick Falco, in an episode from NBC&#039;s police drama,&quot;Law &amp; Order.&quot; Farina died suddenly on Monday, July 22, 2013, in Scottsdale, AZriz., after suffering a blood clot in his lung. He was 69. (AP Photo/ NBC Universal,Jessica Burstein)" border="0" /></a>By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Dennis Farina, the former Chicago cop turned film and TV actor best known for his role as wise-cracking detective Joe Fontana on the hit NBC police drama &quot;Law &amp; Order,&quot; died in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Monday, his publicist said. He was 69. Farina, who parlayed his experience as a police officer, Chicago-accented baritone and straight talking demeanor into a series of tough-guy roles in Hollywood, died after suffering a blood clot in his lung, his publicist Lori De Waal said. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/h-m-signs-lease-store-south-africa-report-081034757.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/YANJVROeBUmcyhOdfE4ZDQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_ZA/News/Reuters/2013-07-22T081034Z_1_AJOE96L0MPO00_RTROPTP_2_OZABS-HM-SOUTHAFRICA-20130722.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="(Blank Headline Received)" align="left" title="(Blank Headline Received)" border="0" /></a>STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The world&#039;s second-biggest fashion retailer, Hennes &amp; Mauritz, has signed its first lease to open a store in South Africa, according to a press report. South African weekly Sunday Times said in an article re-run on daily Business Day&#039;s website that the Swedish retailer has signed a lease for a store in a mall that is due to open in 2015 in Johannesburg. An H&amp;M spokeswoman, which has yet to open a store in Africa, said South Africa is one of many markets it finds interesting but declined to comment further. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/h-m-signs-lease-store-south-africa-report-081034757.htmlMon, 22 Jul 2013 04:10:34 -0400Reutersh-m-signs-lease-store-south-africa-report-081034757<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/h-m-signs-lease-store-south-africa-report-081034757.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/YANJVROeBUmcyhOdfE4ZDQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_ZA/News/Reuters/2013-07-22T081034Z_1_AJOE96L0MPO00_RTROPTP_2_OZABS-HM-SOUTHAFRICA-20130722.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="(Blank Headline Received)" align="left" title="(Blank Headline Received)" border="0" /></a>STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The world&#039;s second-biggest fashion retailer, Hennes &amp; Mauritz, has signed its first lease to open a store in South Africa, according to a press report. South African weekly Sunday Times said in an article re-run on daily Business Day&#039;s website that the Swedish retailer has signed a lease for a store in a mall that is due to open in 2015 in Johannesburg. An H&amp;M spokeswoman, which has yet to open a store in Africa, said South Africa is one of many markets it finds interesting but declined to comment further. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/dolce-gabbana-shut-shops-protest-public-criticism-155132190.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/4.I13D_QKM0Y5rJHHIiM1A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-19T155154Z_2_CBRE96I182000_RTROPTP_2_DOLCE-GABBANA-CLOSURES.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A girl takes a picture of the windows of a Dolce&amp;Gabbana closed store, displaying a newspaper article as a protest in downtown Milan" align="left" title="A girl takes a picture of the windows of a Dolce&amp;Gabbana closed store, displaying a newspaper article as a protest in downtown Milan" border="0" /></a>By Isla Binnie MILAN (Reuters) - Italian fashion designers Dolce &amp; Gabbana closed their Milan stores for three days on Friday in protest at being &quot;pilloried&quot; over their convictions for tax evasion in June, which they say they will appeal. The words &quot;Closed for Indignation&quot; were emblazoned in the windows of the designers&#039; shop in an upmarket street in Milan, the city where the pair showed their first collection in 1985. Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were given 20-month jail terms for evading taxes on royalties of about a billion euros ($1. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/dolce-gabbana-shut-shops-protest-public-criticism-155132190.htmlFri, 19 Jul 2013 11:51:54 -0400Reutersdolce-gabbana-shut-shops-protest-public-criticism-155132190<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/dolce-gabbana-shut-shops-protest-public-criticism-155132190.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/4.I13D_QKM0Y5rJHHIiM1A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-19T155154Z_2_CBRE96I182000_RTROPTP_2_DOLCE-GABBANA-CLOSURES.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A girl takes a picture of the windows of a Dolce&amp;Gabbana closed store, displaying a newspaper article as a protest in downtown Milan" align="left" title="A girl takes a picture of the windows of a Dolce&amp;Gabbana closed store, displaying a newspaper article as a protest in downtown Milan" border="0" /></a>By Isla Binnie MILAN (Reuters) - Italian fashion designers Dolce &amp; Gabbana closed their Milan stores for three days on Friday in protest at being &quot;pilloried&quot; over their convictions for tax evasion in June, which they say they will appeal. The words &quot;Closed for Indignation&quot; were emblazoned in the windows of the designers&#039; shop in an upmarket street in Milan, the city where the pair showed their first collection in 1985. Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were given 20-month jail terms for evading taxes on royalties of about a billion euros ($1. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/former-versace-mansion-miami-beach-auction-block-203508023.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/YGQQEHPX.YIzu1QXig.UbA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-17T203508Z_1_CBRE96G1L7200_RTROPTP_2_USA-FLORIDA-VERSACE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="An unidentified couple look through the gates to Casa Casuarina on Ocean Drive in the south beach district of Miami Beach in this file photo" align="left" title="An unidentified couple look through the gates to Casa Casuarina on Ocean Drive in the south beach district of Miami Beach in this file photo" border="0" /></a>MIAMI (Reuters) - The Miami Beach mansion once owned by Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace and the site of his 1997 fatal shooting will be sold at an auction in September with bids starting at $25 million. The 23,000-square-foot mansion, now known as Casa Casuarina, will go on the block at a bankruptcy auction on September 17, according to Lamar Fisher, president of the Fisher Auction Company. The auction will be held at the mansion. Located on Ocean Drive, the property has been up for sale for more than a year with an initial asking price of $125 million. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/former-versace-mansion-miami-beach-auction-block-203508023.htmlWed, 17 Jul 2013 16:35:08 -0400Reutersformer-versace-mansion-miami-beach-auction-block-203508023<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/former-versace-mansion-miami-beach-auction-block-203508023.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/YGQQEHPX.YIzu1QXig.UbA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-17T203508Z_1_CBRE96G1L7200_RTROPTP_2_USA-FLORIDA-VERSACE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="An unidentified couple look through the gates to Casa Casuarina on Ocean Drive in the south beach district of Miami Beach in this file photo" align="left" title="An unidentified couple look through the gates to Casa Casuarina on Ocean Drive in the south beach district of Miami Beach in this file photo" border="0" /></a>MIAMI (Reuters) - The Miami Beach mansion once owned by Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace and the site of his 1997 fatal shooting will be sold at an auction in September with bids starting at $25 million. The 23,000-square-foot mansion, now known as Casa Casuarina, will go on the block at a bankruptcy auction on September 17, according to Lamar Fisher, president of the Fisher Auction Company. The auction will be held at the mansion. Located on Ocean Drive, the property has been up for sale for more than a year with an initial asking price of $125 million. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/michael-kors-sues-costco-false-advertising-154914048.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/kGZwtbfMFpu61VsNrLaK4g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-12T154914Z_1_CBRE96B17YA00_RTROPTP_2_CBUSINESS-US-COSTCO-MICHAELKORS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A sign is pictured outside a Costco Wholesale store in Los Angeles" align="left" title="A sign is pictured outside a Costco Wholesale store in Los Angeles" border="0" /></a>By Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Upscale fashion accessories maker Michael Kors Holdings Ltd sued Costco Wholesale Corp on Friday, accusing the largest U.S. warehouse club retailer of running a &quot;bait-and-switch&quot; false advertising scheme. According to a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court, Costco has never been an authorized retailer of Michael Kors handbags, yet it has recently run advertisements nationwide falsely suggesting that the handbags are available &quot;starting at $99. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/michael-kors-sues-costco-false-advertising-154914048.htmlFri, 12 Jul 2013 11:49:14 -0400Reutersmichael-kors-sues-costco-false-advertising-154914048<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/michael-kors-sues-costco-false-advertising-154914048.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/kGZwtbfMFpu61VsNrLaK4g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-12T154914Z_1_CBRE96B17YA00_RTROPTP_2_CBUSINESS-US-COSTCO-MICHAELKORS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A sign is pictured outside a Costco Wholesale store in Los Angeles" align="left" title="A sign is pictured outside a Costco Wholesale store in Los Angeles" border="0" /></a>By Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Upscale fashion accessories maker Michael Kors Holdings Ltd sued Costco Wholesale Corp on Friday, accusing the largest U.S. warehouse club retailer of running a &quot;bait-and-switch&quot; false advertising scheme. According to a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court, Costco has never been an authorized retailer of Michael Kors handbags, yet it has recently run advertisements nationwide falsely suggesting that the handbags are available &quot;starting at $99. ...</p><br clear="all"/>By Belinda Goldsmith LONDON, July 6 (Reuters) - World number one Novak Djokovic has slipped up with his footwear at Wimbledon, being told to get rid of the pimples on the side of his shoes days before he faces Briton Andy Murray in the final on Sunday. Djokovic was the second of the top four male players to fall foul of footwear rules at Wimbledon after seven-times champion Roger Federer was told to change his orange-soled shoes. ...http://news.yahoo.com/tennis-djokovic-told-tone-down-pimpled-shoes-150854168.htmlSat, 06 Jul 2013 11:08:54 -0400Reuterstennis-djokovic-told-tone-down-pimpled-shoes-150854168<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/feline-frenzy-meets-fellini-gaultiers-paris-fashion-show-165158614.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/5yFut9DCGDVXC7ZFvV4YMA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-03T193810Z_2_CBRE9621AUQ00_RTROPTP_2_CENTERTAINMENT-US-FASHION-FRANCE-GAULTIER.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Models present creations by French designer Jean Paul Gaultier as part of his Haute Couture Fall Winter 2013/2014 fashion show in Paris" align="left" title="Models present creations by French designer Jean Paul Gaultier as part of his Haute Couture Fall Winter 2013/2014 fashion show in Paris" border="0" /></a>By Alexandria Sage PARIS (Reuters) - Jean Paul Gaultier sent glittering panthers and clowns down the runway on Wednesday as the French designer tapped into feline glamour and Fellini-esque nostalgia for his Autumn/Winter 2013-2014 haute couture collection. On the last full day of shows at the prestigious Paris fashion week, he put on a highly theatrical display of outfits sewn from leather, feathers and velvet, and named &quot;Catwoman,&quot; &quot;Pink Panther&quot; and &quot;Cruella de Ville&quot;. Even the models&#039; upswept hair was made to resemble the spotted fur of a jungle cat. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/feline-frenzy-meets-fellini-gaultiers-paris-fashion-show-165158614.htmlWed, 03 Jul 2013 15:38:10 -0400Reutersfeline-frenzy-meets-fellini-gaultiers-paris-fashion-show-165158614<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/feline-frenzy-meets-fellini-gaultiers-paris-fashion-show-165158614.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/5yFut9DCGDVXC7ZFvV4YMA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-03T193810Z_2_CBRE9621AUQ00_RTROPTP_2_CENTERTAINMENT-US-FASHION-FRANCE-GAULTIER.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Models present creations by French designer Jean Paul Gaultier as part of his Haute Couture Fall Winter 2013/2014 fashion show in Paris" align="left" title="Models present creations by French designer Jean Paul Gaultier as part of his Haute Couture Fall Winter 2013/2014 fashion show in Paris" border="0" /></a>By Alexandria Sage PARIS (Reuters) - Jean Paul Gaultier sent glittering panthers and clowns down the runway on Wednesday as the French designer tapped into feline glamour and Fellini-esque nostalgia for his Autumn/Winter 2013-2014 haute couture collection. On the last full day of shows at the prestigious Paris fashion week, he put on a highly theatrical display of outfits sewn from leather, feathers and velvet, and named &quot;Catwoman,&quot; &quot;Pink Panther&quot; and &quot;Cruella de Ville&quot;. Even the models&#039; upswept hair was made to resemble the spotted fur of a jungle cat. ...</p><br clear="all"/>Fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have closed their Milan stores for three days "in indignation" over remarks by a city official relating to their tax evasion conviction. The ...http://news.yahoo.com/dolce-gabbana-closes-milan-stores-163806659.htmlSat, 20 Jul 2013 12:39:49 -0400Associated Pressdolce-gabbana-closes-milan-stores-163806659By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - The fashion world is the setting for the latest book by bestselling novelist Danielle Steel, a prolific author who continues to produce several books a year. "First Sight", which appeared in mid-July, is the story of Timmie O'Neill who has created a ready-to-wear fashion empire after a difficult childhood and a past she wants to forget. ...http://news.yahoo.com/book-talk-danielle-steel-heads-inside-fashion-world-000858879.htmlWed, 17 Jul 2013 20:08:58 -0400Reutersbook-talk-danielle-steel-heads-inside-fashion-world-000858879Is Apple's New Hire From Yves Saint Laurent a Reflection of Things to Come?http://news.yahoo.com/apples-aapl-vp-ceo-fashion-172151994.htmlWed, 03 Jul 2013 19:20:46 -0400ABC Newsapples-aapl-vp-ceo-fashion-172151994<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/apple-hires-former-yves-saint-laurent-ceo-special-204528520.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/MvSsE8tA3R3PJGioVf5qkw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-03T204528Z_2_CBRE9611U0800_RTROPTP_2_APPLE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook addresses the crowd during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2013 in San Francisco" align="left" title="Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook addresses the crowd during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2013 in San Francisco" border="0" /></a>By Poornima Gupta SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc has hired the former chief executive of French luxury group Yves Saint Laurent for &quot;special projects&quot; reporting to Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook. &quot;We&#039;re thrilled to welcome Paul Deneve to Apple,&quot; spokeswoman Kristin Huguet said. &quot;He&#039;ll be working on special projects as a vice president reporting directly to Tim Cook.&quot; Deneve, who joined Yves Saint Laurent in 2011 after holding senior positions at fashion brands Courreges, Nina Ricci and Lanvin, held several sales and marketing jobs at Apple in Europe between 1990 and 1997. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/apple-hires-former-yves-saint-laurent-ceo-special-204528520.htmlWed, 03 Jul 2013 16:45:28 -0400Reutersapple-hires-former-yves-saint-laurent-ceo-special-204528520<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/apple-hires-former-yves-saint-laurent-ceo-special-204528520.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/MvSsE8tA3R3PJGioVf5qkw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-03T204528Z_2_CBRE9611U0800_RTROPTP_2_APPLE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook addresses the crowd during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2013 in San Francisco" align="left" title="Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook addresses the crowd during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2013 in San Francisco" border="0" /></a>By Poornima Gupta SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc has hired the former chief executive of French luxury group Yves Saint Laurent for &quot;special projects&quot; reporting to Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook. &quot;We&#039;re thrilled to welcome Paul Deneve to Apple,&quot; spokeswoman Kristin Huguet said. &quot;He&#039;ll be working on special projects as a vice president reporting directly to Tim Cook.&quot; Deneve, who joined Yves Saint Laurent in 2011 after holding senior positions at fashion brands Courreges, Nina Ricci and Lanvin, held several sales and marketing jobs at Apple in Europe between 1990 and 1997. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/why-apple-hiring-fashion-giant-yves-saint-laurents-062200072.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/UcDsfVjlcH9YL8OYcO9AnQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/theweek/an-apple-1-computer-built-in-1976-if-this-isnt-high-fashion-what-is.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="An Apple-1 computer, built in 1976. If this isn&#039;t high-fashion, what is?" align="left" title="An Apple-1 computer, built in 1976. If this isn&#039;t high-fashion, what is?" border="0" /></a>For some &quot;special projects,&quot; says Cupertino. Um, okay....</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/why-apple-hiring-fashion-giant-yves-saint-laurents-062200072.htmlWed, 03 Jul 2013 02:22:00 -0400The Weekwhy-apple-hiring-fashion-giant-yves-saint-laurents-062200072<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/why-apple-hiring-fashion-giant-yves-saint-laurents-062200072.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/UcDsfVjlcH9YL8OYcO9AnQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/theweek/an-apple-1-computer-built-in-1976-if-this-isnt-high-fashion-what-is.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="An Apple-1 computer, built in 1976. If this isn&#039;t high-fashion, what is?" align="left" title="An Apple-1 computer, built in 1976. If this isn&#039;t high-fashion, what is?" border="0" /></a>For some &quot;special projects,&quot; says Cupertino. Um, okay....</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/rihanna-jennifer-lawrence-hang-paris-fashion-week-173147180.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/kxNsY2EAYdnEx6MBhmi_Yg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_ca/News/AccessHollywood/190692.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Rihanna and Jennifer, Rihanna with Karl Lagerfeld, Jennifer Lawrence -- Getty ImagesRihanna/Instagram" align="left" title="Rihanna and Jennifer, Rihanna with Karl Lagerfeld, Jennifer Lawrence -- Getty ImagesRihanna/Instagram" border="0" /></a>Rihanna appears to have made a new pal in &quot;Hunger Games&quot; star Jennifer Lawrence.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/rihanna-jennifer-lawrence-hang-paris-fashion-week-173147180.htmlTue, 02 Jul 2013 13:31:47 -0400Access Hollywoodrihanna-jennifer-lawrence-hang-paris-fashion-week-173147180<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/rihanna-jennifer-lawrence-hang-paris-fashion-week-173147180.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/kxNsY2EAYdnEx6MBhmi_Yg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_ca/News/AccessHollywood/190692.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Rihanna and Jennifer, Rihanna with Karl Lagerfeld, Jennifer Lawrence -- Getty ImagesRihanna/Instagram" align="left" title="Rihanna and Jennifer, Rihanna with Karl Lagerfeld, Jennifer Lawrence -- Getty ImagesRihanna/Instagram" border="0" /></a>Rihanna appears to have made a new pal in &quot;Hunger Games&quot; star Jennifer Lawrence.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/world-stage-chanel-paris-fashion-week-134629319.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/tnn3TSPLriz47V1Vf.ovtQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-02T134629Z_1_CBRE961129L00_RTROPTP_2_FASHION-FRANCE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="German designer Karl Lagerfeld appears with models at the end of his Haute Couture Fall Winter 2013/2014 fashion show for French fashion house Chanel in Paris" align="left" title="German designer Karl Lagerfeld appears with models at the end of his Haute Couture Fall Winter 2013/2014 fashion show for French fashion house Chanel in Paris" border="0" /></a>By Alexandria Sage PARIS (Reuters) - The faded beauty of a crumbling theater, whose curtain opened to reveal an ultra-modern skyline, was the backdrop to Chanel&#039;s haute couture show on Tuesday which designer Karl Lagerfeld described as a mix of &quot;tradition with the future.&quot; Models walking across the stage and into the audience seated in old wooden theatre chairs showed off a glittery collection that played with proportions. Marked by doubled short skirts and wide low-slung belts, Lagerfeld also added long columned dresses in grays, silvers and blacks and a high dose of gunmetal blue. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/world-stage-chanel-paris-fashion-week-134629319.htmlTue, 02 Jul 2013 11:41:56 -0400Reutersworld-stage-chanel-paris-fashion-week-134629319<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/world-stage-chanel-paris-fashion-week-134629319.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/tnn3TSPLriz47V1Vf.ovtQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-02T134629Z_1_CBRE961129L00_RTROPTP_2_FASHION-FRANCE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="German designer Karl Lagerfeld appears with models at the end of his Haute Couture Fall Winter 2013/2014 fashion show for French fashion house Chanel in Paris" align="left" title="German designer Karl Lagerfeld appears with models at the end of his Haute Couture Fall Winter 2013/2014 fashion show for French fashion house Chanel in Paris" border="0" /></a>By Alexandria Sage PARIS (Reuters) - The faded beauty of a crumbling theater, whose curtain opened to reveal an ultra-modern skyline, was the backdrop to Chanel&#039;s haute couture show on Tuesday which designer Karl Lagerfeld described as a mix of &quot;tradition with the future.&quot; Models walking across the stage and into the audience seated in old wooden theatre chairs showed off a glittery collection that played with proportions. Marked by doubled short skirts and wide low-slung belts, Lagerfeld also added long columned dresses in grays, silvers and blacks and a high dose of gunmetal blue. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/dior-show-paris-fashion-week-round-globe-tour-165559177.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/m1.zvkfS.EsjtI9ksQamDg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-01T165559Z_1_CBRE9601B1E00_RTROPTP_2_FASHION-FRANCE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A model presents a creation by Belgian designer Raf Simons as part of his Haute Couture Fall Winter 2013/2014 fashion collection for French fashion house Christian Dior in Paris" align="left" title="A model presents a creation by Belgian designer Raf Simons as part of his Haute Couture Fall Winter 2013/2014 fashion collection for French fashion house Christian Dior in Paris" border="0" /></a>By Alexandria Sage PARIS (Reuters) - Celebrated French fashion house Christian Dior sprung for a luxury jet-set tour of the globe at Paris fashion week on Monday, presenting a cross-continental look at haute couture with a collection inspired by the four corners of the world. Women from Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa were the inspiration for Dior&#039;s artistic director, Raf Simons, in his Autumn/Winter 2013-2014 Haute Couture show, a collection of over 50 looks that unfolded like a smorgasbord of luxe. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/dior-show-paris-fashion-week-round-globe-tour-165559177.htmlMon, 01 Jul 2013 12:55:59 -0400Reutersdior-show-paris-fashion-week-round-globe-tour-165559177<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/dior-show-paris-fashion-week-round-globe-tour-165559177.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/m1.zvkfS.EsjtI9ksQamDg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-01T165559Z_1_CBRE9601B1E00_RTROPTP_2_FASHION-FRANCE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A model presents a creation by Belgian designer Raf Simons as part of his Haute Couture Fall Winter 2013/2014 fashion collection for French fashion house Christian Dior in Paris" align="left" title="A model presents a creation by Belgian designer Raf Simons as part of his Haute Couture Fall Winter 2013/2014 fashion collection for French fashion house Christian Dior in Paris" border="0" /></a>By Alexandria Sage PARIS (Reuters) - Celebrated French fashion house Christian Dior sprung for a luxury jet-set tour of the globe at Paris fashion week on Monday, presenting a cross-continental look at haute couture with a collection inspired by the four corners of the world. Women from Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa were the inspiration for Dior&#039;s artistic director, Raf Simons, in his Autumn/Winter 2013-2014 Haute Couture show, a collection of over 50 looks that unfolded like a smorgasbord of luxe. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/liz-taylors-first-wedding-dress-145244100.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/XDD_QRjchLQaHpNnb0AEhQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://globalfinance.zenfs.com/images/US_AHTTP_AP_FINANCIALTIMES/fb7a2124604ede15350f6a70670015b2_original.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Liz Taylor&#039;s first wedding dress sells for $188K" align="left" title="Liz Taylor&#039;s first wedding dress sells for $188K" border="0" /></a>The gown that an 18-year-old Elizabeth Taylor wore for her first wedding to hotel heir Conrad &quot;Nicky&quot; Hilton Jr. has fetched 121,875 pounds ($187,931) at a London auction. Christie&#039;s director ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/liz-taylors-first-wedding-dress-145244100.htmlWed, 26 Jun 2013 10:52:44 -0400Associated Pressliz-taylors-first-wedding-dress-145244100<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/liz-taylors-first-wedding-dress-145244100.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/XDD_QRjchLQaHpNnb0AEhQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://globalfinance.zenfs.com/images/US_AHTTP_AP_FINANCIALTIMES/fb7a2124604ede15350f6a70670015b2_original.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Liz Taylor&#039;s first wedding dress sells for $188K" align="left" title="Liz Taylor&#039;s first wedding dress sells for $188K" border="0" /></a>The gown that an 18-year-old Elizabeth Taylor wore for her first wedding to hotel heir Conrad &quot;Nicky&quot; Hilton Jr. has fetched 121,875 pounds ($187,931) at a London auction. Christie&#039;s director ...</p><br clear="all"/>By Isla Binnie MILAN (Reuters) - Top designers presented hamburger prints, colored jeans and soft interpretations of formal suits to conclude Milan men's fashion week on Tuesday, recognizing a new generation of men who dare to be bold and casual. Knitwear replaced shirts under soft jackets at Giorgio Armani, while Ermanno Scervino dressed models in Swarovski gem-encrusted denim, creating the "upper casual" style which is growing on the back of demand from Asian consumers. ...http://news.yahoo.com/menu-hamburger-prints-denim-ends-milan-mens-fashion-193654097.htmlTue, 25 Jun 2013 15:36:54 -0400Reutersmenu-hamburger-prints-denim-ends-milan-mens-fashion-193654097By Elise Knutsen DAKAR (Reuters) - Backstage at Dakar Fashion Week a group of young women squeeze into impossibly high heels while others sit still as make-up artists paint their eyelids a shining emerald color. All legs and cheekbones, the models are subject to the same pressures as their counterparts walking runways in London, Paris, and New York. And perhaps more. Like many women from the streets of Senegal, some fashion models in West Africa have bleached their skin, seeking to achieve a "caf? au lait" color regarded by some as the aesthetic ideal. ...http://news.yahoo.com/dakar-fashion-week-takes-stand-against-skin-bleaching-172812343.htmlMon, 24 Jun 2013 13:28:12 -0400Reutersdakar-fashion-week-takes-stand-against-skin-bleaching-172812343<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/dakar-fashion-week-targets-citys-working-class-145325716.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/bF18o74MPsBn.kceNTdJFQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/e66365d903589515350f6a706700dfb8.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="In this Thursday, June 20, 2013 photo, models wear designs by Adama Paris, during the opening show of Dakar Fashion Week at Barramundi, in Dakar, Senegal. After a Friday show held in a dusty marketplace in the working class suburb of Guediawaye, the runway finale of Dakar Fashion Week was held at a luxury hotel and showcased the work of 14 designers from West Africa, Europe, South America, and the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)" align="left" title="In this Thursday, June 20, 2013 photo, models wear designs by Adama Paris, during the opening show of Dakar Fashion Week at Barramundi, in Dakar, Senegal. After a Friday show held in a dusty marketplace in the working class suburb of Guediawaye, the runway finale of Dakar Fashion Week was held at a luxury hotel and showcased the work of 14 designers from West Africa, Europe, South America, and the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)" border="0" /></a>DAKAR, Senegal (AP) ? Law student Aminata Kande stepped out in a $25 blue wax print dress to watch lanky models storm a makeshift runway wearing pieces that cost ten times that amount.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/dakar-fashion-week-targets-citys-working-class-145325716.htmlSun, 23 Jun 2013 10:12:07 -0400Associated Pressdakar-fashion-week-targets-citys-working-class-145325716<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/dakar-fashion-week-targets-citys-working-class-145325716.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/bF18o74MPsBn.kceNTdJFQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/e66365d903589515350f6a706700dfb8.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="In this Thursday, June 20, 2013 photo, models wear designs by Adama Paris, during the opening show of Dakar Fashion Week at Barramundi, in Dakar, Senegal. After a Friday show held in a dusty marketplace in the working class suburb of Guediawaye, the runway finale of Dakar Fashion Week was held at a luxury hotel and showcased the work of 14 designers from West Africa, Europe, South America, and the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)" align="left" title="In this Thursday, June 20, 2013 photo, models wear designs by Adama Paris, during the opening show of Dakar Fashion Week at Barramundi, in Dakar, Senegal. After a Friday show held in a dusty marketplace in the working class suburb of Guediawaye, the runway finale of Dakar Fashion Week was held at a luxury hotel and showcased the work of 14 designers from West Africa, Europe, South America, and the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)" border="0" /></a>DAKAR, Senegal (AP) ? Law student Aminata Kande stepped out in a $25 blue wax print dress to watch lanky models storm a makeshift runway wearing pieces that cost ten times that amount.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/dolce-gabbana-turn-muse-sicily-172008692.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/UcEJyYlDJlkuIF6nPGEvOw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/c232cdabe4677d14350f6a706700a5ff.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Models wear creations of the Dolce &amp; Gabbana men&#039;s Spring-Summer 2014 collection, part of the Milan Fashion Week, unveiled in Milan, Italy, Saturday, June 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)" align="left" title="Models wear creations of the Dolce &amp; Gabbana men&#039;s Spring-Summer 2014 collection, part of the Milan Fashion Week, unveiled in Milan, Italy, Saturday, June 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)" border="0" /></a>MILAN (AP) ? Dolce&amp;Gabbana have turned again to muse Sicily for inspiration for next summer&#039;s menswear collections.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/dolce-gabbana-turn-muse-sicily-172008692.htmlSat, 22 Jun 2013 13:20:08 -0400Associated Pressdolce-gabbana-turn-muse-sicily-172008692<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/dolce-gabbana-turn-muse-sicily-172008692.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/UcEJyYlDJlkuIF6nPGEvOw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/c232cdabe4677d14350f6a706700a5ff.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Models wear creations of the Dolce &amp; Gabbana men&#039;s Spring-Summer 2014 collection, part of the Milan Fashion Week, unveiled in Milan, Italy, Saturday, June 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)" align="left" title="Models wear creations of the Dolce &amp; Gabbana men&#039;s Spring-Summer 2014 collection, part of the Milan Fashion Week, unveiled in Milan, Italy, Saturday, June 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)" border="0" /></a>MILAN (AP) ? Dolce&amp;Gabbana have turned again to muse Sicily for inspiration for next summer&#039;s menswear collections.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/milan-moves-reinvent-fashion-week-203525610.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/KmQXhauvX7_8ovLRxBAOBw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/48ad6929c7056c14350f6a7067005121.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="In this photo taken on June 13 2013, Prada fashion group CEO Patrizio Bertelli attends a conference on fashion in Milan. Concern that Milan is losing prestige to London, Paris and New York is cracking the well-appointed composure of Milan&#039;s fashion world. The Italian National Fashion Chamber has been moved to action, announcing a reorganization this spring and making Prada&#039;s outspoken CEO Patrizio Bertelli the No. 2, with the goal of revitalizing Milan fashion. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)" align="left" title="In this photo taken on June 13 2013, Prada fashion group CEO Patrizio Bertelli attends a conference on fashion in Milan. Concern that Milan is losing prestige to London, Paris and New York is cracking the well-appointed composure of Milan&#039;s fashion world. The Italian National Fashion Chamber has been moved to action, announcing a reorganization this spring and making Prada&#039;s outspoken CEO Patrizio Bertelli the No. 2, with the goal of revitalizing Milan fashion. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)" border="0" /></a>MILAN (AP) ? Burberry has packed up for London, abandoning Milan after a decade of menswear fealty. Giorgio Armani has scolded Italian designers who regularly show in other fashion capitals. And Donatella Versace even called for a fashion summit in a bid for unity.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/milan-moves-reinvent-fashion-week-203525610.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2013 16:37:27 -0400Associated Pressmilan-moves-reinvent-fashion-week-203525610<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/milan-moves-reinvent-fashion-week-203525610.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/KmQXhauvX7_8ovLRxBAOBw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/48ad6929c7056c14350f6a7067005121.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="In this photo taken on June 13 2013, Prada fashion group CEO Patrizio Bertelli attends a conference on fashion in Milan. Concern that Milan is losing prestige to London, Paris and New York is cracking the well-appointed composure of Milan&#039;s fashion world. The Italian National Fashion Chamber has been moved to action, announcing a reorganization this spring and making Prada&#039;s outspoken CEO Patrizio Bertelli the No. 2, with the goal of revitalizing Milan fashion. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)" align="left" title="In this photo taken on June 13 2013, Prada fashion group CEO Patrizio Bertelli attends a conference on fashion in Milan. Concern that Milan is losing prestige to London, Paris and New York is cracking the well-appointed composure of Milan&#039;s fashion world. The Italian National Fashion Chamber has been moved to action, announcing a reorganization this spring and making Prada&#039;s outspoken CEO Patrizio Bertelli the No. 2, with the goal of revitalizing Milan fashion. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)" border="0" /></a>MILAN (AP) ? Burberry has packed up for London, abandoning Milan after a decade of menswear fealty. Giorgio Armani has scolded Italian designers who regularly show in other fashion capitals. And Donatella Versace even called for a fashion summit in a bid for unity.</p><br clear="all"/>PARIS (AP) ? French designer Jean-Louis Scherrer, who dressed such fashion plates as Jackie Kennedy at the height of his career, has died. He was 78.http://news.yahoo.com/fashion-designer-jean-louis-scherrer-dies-183049313.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2013 14:30:49 -0400Associated Pressfashion-designer-jean-louis-scherrer-dies-183049313<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/italian-designers-dolce-gabbana-convicted-tax-evasion-132216119.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/36lP9B0EwKyuqg9QbsDzXQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-06-20T132216Z_2_CBRE95I1O5100_RTROPTP_2_ITALY-FASHION.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Italian designers Dolce &amp; Gabbana acknowledge audience at the end of their Spring/Summer 2013 collection at Milan Fashion Week" align="left" title="Italian designers Dolce &amp; Gabbana acknowledge audience at the end of their Spring/Summer 2013 collection at Milan Fashion Week" border="0" /></a>By Manuela D&#039;Alessandro MILAN (Reuters) - Fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were handed a 20-month suspended prison sentence and a heavy fine on Wednesday for hiding hundreds of millions of euros from the Italian tax authorities. The design duo, who are nearly as famous as the stars they dress, were not present in court in Milan and will lodge an appeal against their conviction on charges that they have always denied. &quot;We will read the reasons for the verdict, and we will appeal,&quot; Massimo Dinoia, one of the pair&#039;s defense lawyers, said after the hearing. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/italian-designers-dolce-gabbana-convicted-tax-evasion-132216119.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2013 09:22:16 -0400Reutersitalian-designers-dolce-gabbana-convicted-tax-evasion-132216119<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/italian-designers-dolce-gabbana-convicted-tax-evasion-132216119.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/36lP9B0EwKyuqg9QbsDzXQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-06-20T132216Z_2_CBRE95I1O5100_RTROPTP_2_ITALY-FASHION.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Italian designers Dolce &amp; Gabbana acknowledge audience at the end of their Spring/Summer 2013 collection at Milan Fashion Week" align="left" title="Italian designers Dolce &amp; Gabbana acknowledge audience at the end of their Spring/Summer 2013 collection at Milan Fashion Week" border="0" /></a>By Manuela D&#039;Alessandro MILAN (Reuters) - Fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were handed a 20-month suspended prison sentence and a heavy fine on Wednesday for hiding hundreds of millions of euros from the Italian tax authorities. The design duo, who are nearly as famous as the stars they dress, were not present in court in Milan and will lodge an appeal against their convicti

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