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9 Best Pairs of Women’s Shoes for Travel, Whether You’re Running Through Airports or Walking New Cities
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, WWD may receive an affiliate commission. In this article View More Comfort when traveling...
Hormuz Shipping Traffic Barely Budges as Tanker Attacks, Mine Risks Persist
As the U.S. preps a flurry of economic sanctions targeted at Iran and its trading partners in lieu of military strikes, the Strait of Hormuz remains largely barren of...
EXCLUSIVE: Toms Takes the Concept of a Tennis Shoe Literally With New Ball-inspired Slip-on
As fervor around the U.S. Open ramps up this week, even Toms is getting in on the action. On Wednesday, the footwear brand said it will launch a new...
David Pemsel to Step Down as Chair of British Fashion Council
LONDON — David Pemsel is exiting the British Fashion Council on Sept. 30, closing a decade-long run on the executive board and four years as chair of the organization...
World
Dolly Parton for the People
Four score and three thousand songs ago, in the middle of a whopping winter storm, a sharecropper and his young wife brought forth upon this continent a baby girl...
A Sex Tape Won’t Make You Famous Anymore
“She gonna be bigger than Kim K.!” the twenty-four-year-old Julian Newman said of his sister, Jaden, in a recent YouTube video. He sat behind the wheel of his car,...
The Books Behind Peter Heller’s “The Dog Stars”
You may be aware that Jacob Elordi is in a new movie out this week: “The Dog Stars,” directed by Ridley Scott, and also starring Josh Brolin and Margaret...
Business
Singapore digital banks want more than just your deposits; credit cards are the next battleground
[SINGAPORE] With all three of Singapore’s digital banks now offering credit cards, the battle is shifting from simply acquiring customers to capturing more of their everyday spending – and...
Venezuela weighs exit from Opec as US discusses stake in oil fields
By Ben Bartenstein, Mie Dahl and Fabiola Zerpa Venezuela is closely examining plans to leave Opec, according to people familiar with the matter, delivering a fresh blow to the oil...
Chad accuses Sudan of deadly air strike near shared border
An air strike near Chad's border with Sudan has killed at least 12 people, with Chad accusing the Sudanese army of launching it.Addressing Thursday's strike, a Chadian security source...
Best of BS Opinion: India needs outcome-linked policy measures for jobs
Hello, and welcome to the Best of BS Opinion, our wrap of the day's Opinion page. India’s skilling challenge cannot be separated from the scarcity and quality of employment, points...
News
Republican Governor Calls Out DOJ’s “Aggressive” Election Monitors
The Hope Florida Foundation is the fundraising arm of a charity, Hope Florida, started by Casey DeSantis in 2021. The organization intends to connect low-income families with churches and...
Texas Has Suspended More Than 1 Million Voters Ahead of Senate Race
Six percent of Texas’s voters—over 1.2 million people—have had their voter registrations suspended, and many might not even know about it. The designation, which means that the voter’s county...
Transcript: Trump Unraveling as Aides Feed Him Crackpot Poll Hopium
Mona, that’s funny. I mean, maybe the border is a fair one, but stock market highs and manufacturing jobs have declined. Your reaction to all this?Charen: Yeah, I was...
Trump Attempts to Troll Canada as He Loses Latest Trade War
The Trump administration has futilely projected a victory in its trade war with Canada, despite the obvious losses for the American public.The White House’s official X account shared an...
Beauty
Best of BS Opinion: India needs outcome-linked policy measures for jobs
Hello, and welcome to the Best of BS Opinion, our wrap of the day's Opinion page. India’s skilling challenge cannot be separated from the scarcity and quality of employment, points...
AI can augment reasoning but cannot substitute judicial conscience: CJI
Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Wednesday said the judiciary's governing principle is that artificial intelligence may augment judicial reasoning, but it cannot substitute judicial conscience, and that...
Statewide expansion of digital fertiliser sale system to aid farmers
The Rajasthan government is expanding its ‘Framework for Fertiliser Sale’ system across the state in a phased manner, a senior official of the agriculture department said. The system was launched...
Bank of Baroda’s debt raise tops $1 bn under RBI’s concessional swap window
India's Bank ??of Baroda has raised $400 million through reissuance of its 5.3180% August 2031 U.S. dollar denominated bonds ??at a higher yield, becoming the second state-owned bank and...
Celebrity
Venezuela weighs exit from Opec as US discusses stake in oil fields
By Ben Bartenstein, Mie Dahl and Fabiola Zerpa Venezuela is closely examining plans to leave Opec, according to people familiar with the matter, delivering a fresh blow to the oil...
India, Canada on track to reach $50 billion trade target by 2030: FM
India and Canada are on track to more than double bilateral trade to $50 billion by 2030, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in Toronto on Thursday. The minister will...
RMSI’s new tool to offer localised climate risk intelligence to enterprises
Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today launched CLiMAQ, a climate risk intelligence digital tool, at the Global Sustainability Summit of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) here on Thursday....
The Sweetest Family Traditions: How Raksha Bandhan Has Evolved Across Generations
Ask anyone who grew up in the 1970s or 80s what they remember about Rakhi, and the rakhi itself may not be the first thing they mention. More likely,...
Culture
AI Agent Interoperability Gets a Neutral Home at Last
Google handed its Agent2Agent protocol to the Linux Foundation directed Agentic AI Foundation last week, putting it into the same governance as Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol. The transfer was...
US Canada Tariffs Escalate With Retaliation Set for Sept 8
Washington and Ottawa walked away from the table last weekend, and the collapse of those talks triggered 50 percent US tariffs on roughly $20 billion of Canadian goods. Canada...
De Minimis Exemption Is Gone and a New Fee Is Coming
If you import inventory in small batches, the rule that made that work is gone, and a guide updated on August 17, 2026 lays out where things now stand....
Best Startup Accelerators: 5 Ways to Judge an Offer
TIME published its America’s Best Incubators & Accelerators 2026 ranking on August 18, 2026, and Boston-based MassChallenge landed at No. 2 nationally. The list, researched with Statista, evaluated the...
Style
In “Adults,” Gen Z Gets the Hangout Sitcom It Deserves
The married creators of “Adults,” Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw, seem well aware of the lineage of their series. (At one point, a character played by the “Girls” star...
Small Business Grants: 5 Lessons From Jobber’s $250K
Jobber handed out $250,000 to nine commercial and home service businesses this week, announcing the 2026 recipients from Toronto on August 25. Of the six years the program has...
“Wishes and Fears,” by Caleb Crain
It was the end of the world, and a number of us had gathered in a large, abandoned house. Source link
Dolly Parton’s Outlaw Christianity
Dolly Parton grew up steeped in Scripture and hymns, and a congregation was her first audience; her faith and her talent were forever inseparable. But by the time she...
Fashion
Singapore digital banks want more than just your deposits; credit cards are the next battleground
[SINGAPORE] With all three of Singapore’s digital banks now offering credit cards, the battle is shifting from simply acquiring customers to capturing more of their everyday spending – and...
Frencken proposes S$100 million placement to fund expansion, potential M&A
It wants to beef up its production capacity and that of its mechatronics and advanced plastic solutions divisions[SINGAPORE] Tech solutions provider Frencken on Thursday (Aug 27) announced that it...
Apple’s rare Bay Area layoffs hit Vision Pro and Siri teams amid AI shakeup
Apple is laying off close to 150 employees, the latest tech titan to reduce staff amid the artificial intelligence boom. Recent government filings showed that the iPhone maker is...
Maybank Q2 profit up 2.4% on lower impairment, higher non-interest income
It declares a single-tier first interim dividend of RM0.31 a share for the financial year ending Dec 31, up from RM0.30 a share a year earlier[SINGAPORE] Maybank on Thursday...