Between glossy runways and fragile bodies, the drama reveals the pressure, ambition, and vulnerability behind the glamour of Paris Fashion Week. Several stories from the fashion world are stitched together in Couture, a film whose title nods not only to haute couture itself but also to the broader idea of seams—emotional, psychological, and physical. Alice…
In a break from past practice, the United States did not send an aircraft carrier to its military drill with treaty allies Japan and South Korea last week. Some analysts said this suggested that the US was playing down the exercise to boost its dealings with China and North Korea. Others highlighted the Trump administration’s…
Abu Said, a barber, is busy. It is a weekend and though the narrow streets of al-Am’ari camp are hot and quiet, his shop is crowded. Everyone in al-Am’ari, on the outskirts of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, knows that the UK, France, Portugal and Canada have said they will recognise a Palestinian state…
Hong Kong will expedite its push into the autonomous driving sector, with plans to expand vehicle testing to the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge Port and the Kai Tak development area, the transport chief has said. Secretary for Transport and Logistics Mable Chan said on Sunday three autonomous driving projects would enter the testing phase this year…
Born in Oldham, Lancashire, in 1946, Stapleton began his career in newspapers, including shifts on The Daily Sketch in Manchester, before script writing on the BBC’s This Is Your Life. He also worked on BBC current affairs show Nationwide in 1975, where he went on to become one of the show’s main presenters, working on…
A Vietnamese pop singer won top honors at Russia’ s Intervision Song Contest, a Cold-War era music festival that Moscow revived in response to being kicked out of the global Eurovision spectacle for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Duc Phuc, who has nearly 2 million followers on Instagram, sang a dance-beat pop song based on…
AMD is second fiddle to Nvidia in the largest computing buildout we’ve seen. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD -0.23%) hasn’t had the best few years. It has been outshined by its rival Nvidia (NVDA 0.34%) in the biggest computing buildout of all time, and there doesn’t appear to be a path where AMD can be a direct…
Chinese designer Yuhan Wang is a feminist who dislikes seeing women painted as victims in mainstream media. For spring 2026, she staged a rescue of the women in David Lynch’s cult film “Mulholland Drive.” Inspired by the opening scene, the show started with a model coming out of a car crash in a pink lace…
Perhaps the biggest outcome of the latest U.S.-China trade talks is China’s increased confidence in its homegrown technology. Alibaba and Baidu both saw their stocks surge this past week after news of AI advances and business deals . Huawei touted AI chip systems better than Nvidia’s at the same time as Beijing extended a probe…
The co-founder and chief technology officer of a San Francisco-based firm used the Trump administration’s decision to increase the H-1B visa fee to $100,000 for new applicants as a hiring opportunity. In a LinkedIn post, Metaview CTO Shahriar Tajbakhsh advertised a list of available positions for H-1B candidates at his company. The post comes at…