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She made the color pink—and spangled minidresses—a way of life in the early Noughties, and now Paris Hilton has brought her signature aesthetic to Donatella’s Versace runway in Milan. The original reality TV queen joined supermodels including Bella and Gigi Hadid, Irina Shayk, and EmRata on the catwalk, wearing a tiny pink dress with a fingerless gloves and a pair of Day-Glo pink stilettos that would have fit right into her The Simple Life wardrobe. Paris Hilton on Versace’s spring/summer 2023 runway.  MIGUEL MEDINA/Getty ImagesThe other standout accessory? A veil—a theme of the collection, and part of a season that has…

The chief architect of Russia’s long-awaited crypto legislation has insisted that crypto trading regulations and new rules about the governance of the crypto mining sector must be addressed in the same bill. And the news could be good for Russian crypto miners – with tax breaks on the cards.Per the Russian news outlet Finmarket, Anatoly Aksakov, the head of the State Duma’s Financial Markets Committee, told attendees at the recent Kazan Digital Week 2022 forum:“The issue of legalizing crypto mining should be resolved simultaneously with the legalization of the circulation of cryptocurrencies, since distributed ledgers cannot exist without a mining…

_Here’s a roundup of the top stories in Europe this week._This week, Vladimir Putin announced plans to order a partial mobilisation of reserved army forces and organise referendums in the country’s occupied territories.Western leaders fear Putin will use the referendums as an excuse to claim Ukraine’s eastern and southern fronts as integral parts of Russia, mirroring the 2014 illegal annexation of Crimea.At the same time, the Russian leader intends to bring up to 300,000 reserved forces into the army through a decree of partial mobilisation, a move that experts see as a reaction to a counteroffensive recently launched by Ukraine.”President…

Global stocks have sold off for a second straight week, weighed down by concerns over higher interest rates and the health of the economy, while oil prices declined to levels last traded before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.The FTSE All-World index of global stocks fell 2.1 per cent on Friday, bringing its loss over the week to 5 per cent, the worst since June.Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 stock index finished the week down 4.6 per cent, while the tech-dominated Nasdaq Composite shed 4.16 per cent. Europe’s Stoxx 600 registered a daily loss of 2.3 per cent on Friday to officially…

Ocado shares have fallen by over a quarter in the past month as the online grocery retailer struggles with inflation and cost of living crisis headwinds. Demand is weakening as consumers trade down and spend less, with a first annual decline in grocery sales now expected by the business.Ocado Retail, the joint venture with Marks and Spencer, said in a third-quarter trading update this month that “we now expect to see a small sales decline” in this financial year. This was despite the number of active customers growing by almost a quarter to 964,000 and average orders per week rising…

Police in London, Ont., are asking for the public’s help as they search for two missing teenage girls last seen Friday afternoon in the city’s west end. The pair, Autumn Budden, 13, and Lauren Stutt, 14, both of London, were last seen in the area of Proudfoot Lane and Sugarcreek Trail around 1:40 p.m., police said.Budden is described as female, standing five-foot-five and weighing approximately 100 pounds. She was last seen wearing a dark-coloured hooded sweater, black jogging pants, yellow shoes, and is possibly carrying a backpack. Stutt is described as female, standing five-foot-three and weighing approximately 120 pounds. She…

There was a changeover tennis fans will long remember during Andy Murray’s Laver Cup clash with Alex de Minaur as Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal coached the Brit.Murray faced the Australian with Team Europe holding a 2-0 lead overall after two rubbers on the opening day at the O2 Arena in London.The British legend, who was a break down in the opening set when he came back to his chair, was suddenly greeted by his team-mates with some advice from his fellow stars.Laver CupFederer re-grips his racquet backstage ahead of final match of career42 MINUTES AGOFederer and Nadal, who are…

Earlier this year, Spain introduced a free train travel scheme for journeys from 1 September to 31 December.But Spanish rail operator Renfe has just changed some of the terms and conditions to avoid “ghost reservations.”After the scheme was introduced, passengers began taking advantage of the system by booking multiple reservations at different times. As the trains are now free, it meant that they didn’t incur any financial penalties for not using the trips they had booked.  These “ghost reservations” caused trains to look like they were completely full up to ten days in advance. Renfe has faced backlash from commuters who…

This is the first in a three-part series on Roraima in the context of Brazil’s general elections. The project was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Journalism Fund. Normandia, Brazil – Cheers and applause greet Joenia Wapichana as she arrives at a political campaign event in the Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous territory in northern Brazil. In 2018, Wapichana became the country’s first Indigenous woman elected to Congress; today, she seeks a second term for the Amazonian state of Roraima, where far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has more support than in any other state, according to recent polls. But Wapichana says…

Comments by Antonio Guterres come after an investigation by The New Humanitarian and Al Jazeera finds such cases have gone unchecked for years.Antonio Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general, has requested an “urgent report” detailing the actions taken by UN staff to ensure accountability after an investigation by The New Humanitarian and Al Jazeera revealed that sexual abuse allegations against aid workers at a UN-run camp in South Sudan have largely gone unchecked over the years. The Protection of Civilians (PoC) site in Malakal opened its doors in late 2013 to offer refuge to people fleeing South Sudan’s ruinous civil war.…