As leather hiking boots emerge as a retro fashion statement, the Spanish-Chinese label Od.a is pushing the concept further by combining historical shoemaking techniques, deep local supply chain knowledge — and documentary-style visuals that evoke cross-cultural nostalgia. Od.a, which means “oath” in Spanish, pays tribute to the original leather hiking boots of the 1990s while elevating…
Good morning. Fortune’s newest Most Powerful Women list is out and there are some familiar tech faces on it, including AMD’s Lisa Su, Alphabet’s Ruth Porat, Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou, and Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei. Among this year’s notably ascendant? Meta’s new president Dina Powell McCormick, who leaps 19 spots to No. 58. As colleague Ellie Austin…
Collections from Hong Kong’s M+ museum will be exhibited in Paris alongside those from Centre Pompidou in France under a five-year deal signed by the two institutions, which also covers research and talent exchange. The memorandum of understanding for a multi-year strategic partnership was signed on Friday by Suhanya Raffel, M+ director, and Laurent Le…
GDANSK, May 13 (Reuters) – Australia in December became the world’s first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking them from platforms including TikTok, Alphabet’s YouTube and Meta’s Instagram and Facebook. The ban comes amid mounting concerns over the impact ofsocial media on children’s health and safety. Below is a summary of…
Hong Kong health authorities are seeking more information from the World Health Organization (WHO) on an outbreak of a deadly hantavirus strain capable of limited human-to-human transmission reported on a cruise ship in the Atlantic, while ramping up efforts to prevent the rare disease from reaching the city’s shores. The Department of Health’s Centre for…
VATICAN CITY, May 6 (Reuters) – Pope Leo marks his first year leading the Catholic Church on Friday with a higher public profile and a ramped-up schedule, having grown more outspoken on the world stage and drawn the ire of U.S. President Donald Trump. The first U.S.-born pope, who sharply denounced war and despotism on…
By Victoria Waldersee and Joan Faus BARCELONA, April 19 (Reuters) – From reforming the UN Security Council to taxing billionaires, thousands of leftists gathered in Barcelona over the weekend to brainstorm ways to halt the rise of authoritarianism and win back voters who have drifted rightwards. The gathering, which drew more than 6,000 people from…
MADRID, April 18 (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said on Saturday she declined a meeting with Spain’s prime minister during her visit because he was hosting a summit of progressive leaders in Barcelona. Machado, a right-wing liberal and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has refused to meet Spain’s leftist coalition government under Prime…
BARCELONA, April 18 (Reuters) – Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Spain’s Pedro Sanchez met in Barcelona on Saturday after a summit of progressive leaders. The meeting, reported by Spanish state news agency EFE, took place during Sheinbaum’s visit to Barcelona to attend a gathering of the global left, organized by the Spanish government. Sheinbaum’s visit…
BARCELONA, April 17 (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was offered a meeting with Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and his government during her visit to Spain but she declined because she did not consider it “opportune”, Sanchez said on Friday. Machado’s lack of contact with any members of Spain’s leftist coalition government contrasts…