GST Council may allow export tag for overseas contract manufacturing
Trump’s Popularity Just Hit a Dismal Historic Low

How Messi and Adidas Are Partnering With Sony on a New Animated Series

Adidas will develop a kids’ footwear, apparel and sports accessories line for athletic and everyday wear as part of a new licensing partnership with Sony Pictures Consumer Products and...

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How Messi and Adidas Are Partnering With Sony on a New Animated Series
Adidas will develop a kids’ footwear, apparel and sports accessories line for athletic and everyday wear as part of a new licensing partnership with Sony Pictures Consumer Products and...
Johanna Ortiz Spring 2027: Optimism at Its Best
At the up-for-sale Maison de l’Amérique Latine in Paris, Johanna Ortiz’s spring 2027 collection treated heritage not as costume, but as a living practice. The designer grounded the show...
We Tested the Most Luxurious Peel and Stick Wallpapers Sold Online — Here Are Our Renter-Friendly Winners
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 Peel and stick...
Polo Ralph Lauren Spring 2027: A Collector’s Wardrobe
Coming off of Ralph Lauren’s standout spring runway show during New York Fashion Week, the company returned to Paris to present its spring 2027 Polo Ralph Lauren Collection on...
Ann Demeulemeester Spring 2027: (Not So) Lonely Journey
An Ann Demeulemeester show is sort of a fashion bubble. Yes, there are familiar faces one meets every other hour at different locations throughout the week, but they are...
Hermès Spring 2027: Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot
How does a house famous for its leather cope with a changing climate? Nadège Vanhée, Hermès’ artistic director of women’s ready-to-wear, has a few solutions. Over the past year...

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Peter de Sève’s “Lapdog”
For the cover of the October 12, 2026, issue, the artist Peter de Sève depicts a scene around Central Park’s reservoir, a cherished spot in a city where access...
Why Is Illness So Hard to Write About?
Yet the strange disparity Woolf identified persists. We have grown much more willing to put the body on the page without necessarily becoming much better at putting illness there....
Trudie’s Tavern Is Equal Parts Sleekness and Schmaltz
If you wanted Trudie’s to be romantic, as the pink and the linens might imply it to be, there’s a romantic restaurant in there for you: a dirty Martini,...
Why Adults Are Playing with Toys
Eventually, I met a prominent kid-ult. His name is Tristan Wigglesworth, but on YouTube, where he posts videos about his collection of Funko Pops—vinyl figurines of anything and everything...
Let Cathy Ames Be a Monster
Charles is no stranger to whores, but pure-hearted Adam immediately succumbs to the woman without a past upon whom he can project his own dreams and wishes. Cathy will...
“The Swan” Gets a Superficial Reckoning
A new documentary about the reality series, which gave participants extreme makeovers before pitting them against one another in a beauty pageant, fails to grapple with the show’s cruelty,...

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How Messi and Adidas Are Partnering With Sony on a New Animated Series
Adidas will develop a kids’ footwear, apparel and sports accessories line for athletic and everyday wear as part of a new licensing partnership with Sony Pictures Consumer Products and...
GST Council may allow export tag for overseas contract manufacturing
Contract manufacturing for an overseas company is likely to count as an export even if the finished goods stay in India, sources familiar with the proposal said ahead of...
Trump’s Popularity Just Hit a Dismal Historic Low
While addressing the matter on the Senate floor last year, Cotton warned that in some parts of Arkansas, sunrise would not occur until after 8 a.m. if they chose...
India-US trade talks hit plateau, further concessions difficult: FM
The negotiations for a trade deal between India and the US have reached a “plateau” beyond which giving further concessions by either side was “very difficult”, Union Finance Minister...
US stocks: Wall Street opens muted as tech stocks take a breather
Published Mon, Oct 5, 2026 · 10:01 PMWALL Street’s main indexes were muted at the open on Monday (Oct 5), as technology stocks eased from record highs, while investors looked for...
Digital payment tokens, insurance policies could become tax-exempted for Singapore family offices
MAS will update the designated investment list for the family office tax exemption scheme, says Gan Kim Yong[SINGAPORE] Singapore will update the list of investments eligible for tax exemption...

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Trump’s Popularity Just Hit a Dismal Historic Low
While addressing the matter on the Senate floor last year, Cotton warned that in some parts of Arkansas, sunrise would not occur until after 8 a.m. if they chose...
Fox Drops Brutal Poll on Trump as Leaks Reveal MAGA Panic: “Wake Up!”
A new Fox poll showing James Talarico ahead in the Texas Senate race unnerved Fox figures. One MAGA guest on Fox exclaimed: “Texans have to wake up!” The poll...
The Long and Extremely Urgent To-Do List if Democrats Take the House
But there is more. There is overwhelming public support for term limits for justices; Congress should pass a bill calling for 18-year terms, effective upon enactment, with justices then...
Trump’s Illegal Campaign Ads Are an Admission of Defeat
And for small businesses, these mini windfalls have arrived too late. Per ABC, one fortunate recipient of a $50,000 refund says “she was forced to cut staff and use...
ICE Protesters Just Sued One of Trump’s Biggest Cheerleaders
The duo “sang songs, participated in prayers, held signs, and recorded official activity,” according to the complaint. Neither was charged with a crime, though they were detained for roughly...
Trump’s Meddling in Brazil’s Elections May Backfire
The Trump administration has ratcheted up its election interference efforts in Brazil, using sanctions, tariffs, and narratives to give Flávio Bolsonaro—son of right-wing hard-liner and convicted traitor Jair Bolsonaro—any...

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GST Council may allow export tag for overseas contract manufacturing
Contract manufacturing for an overseas company is likely to count as an export even if the finished goods stay in India, sources familiar with the proposal said ahead of...
Housing launches outpace sales for 16th straight quarter: Knight Frank
Residential sales across India’s top eight cities remained flat in the first nine months of calendar year 2026 (9M CY26), with sales across eight key markets at 258,238 units,...
Stock Market LIVE: GIFT Nifty rises 100 pts; Asian markets gain on reduced rate-hike bet
Sensex Today | Stock Market LIVE Updates, Monday, Oct 5, 2026: The GIFT Nifty signalled that the Nifty50 may surge at the open as global equities advanced after fears...
Bhavish Aggarwal backs Ola Electric rights issue with own 4.32% stake
illustration: ajay mohanty1 min read Last Updated : Oct 05 2026 | 12:17 AM ISTOla Electric Chairman and Managing Director Bhavish Aggarwal has pledged 4.32 per cent stake in...
Indian IT firms turn to GCC acquisitions as organic revenue growth falters
 That move is a win-win for both sides; services companies have been under sustained revenue and margin pressure over the last few years due to weak macroeconomic conditions and...
UPI transaction value may drop 10% after Oct 15 MDR rollout: Survey
Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions could see a 10 per cent decline in monthly value and a 4 per cent drop in monthly volumes if the proposed 0.4 per...

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India-US trade talks hit plateau, further concessions difficult: FM
The negotiations for a trade deal between India and the US have reached a “plateau” beyond which giving further concessions by either side was “very difficult”, Union Finance Minister...
Drishyam 3 box office collection Day 4: Ajay Devgn film eyes strong Monday
Ajay Devgn-starrer Drishyam 3: The Conclusion has made a strong start at the box office, emerging as the second-highest weekend opener of 2026 after Dhurandhar 2. The film, released...
Wall Street’s $10 billion India hospital bet sparks a fight over bills
By Ranjani Raghavan and Anto Antony Wall Street came to India chasing one of the world’s greatest hospital growth stories. It found something else too: a fight over who will...
AI deal frenzy powers Hong Kong fundraising to a record in Jul-Sep
Illustration: Binay Sinha1 min read Last Updated : Oct 05 2026 | 12:10 AM ISTBankers in Hong Kong skipped the summer break as an AIfueled rush for capital sent...
Rethinking rural cooperatives
However, we now need to look at the structure of rural cooperatives afresh, given the changed ecosystem and the players. The idea of a decentralised village-level financial institution as...
Pointo bets on e-auto, BESS, second-life battery segments to drive growth
Lithium-ion battery distribution and service network startup Pointo is betting big on the expanding e-auto segment, battery storage systems (BESS) and second-life products to bolster its revenue, while actively...

Culture

US stocks: Wall Street opens muted as tech stocks take a breather
Published Mon, Oct 5, 2026 · 10:01 PMWALL Street’s main indexes were muted at the open on Monday (Oct 5), as technology stocks eased from record highs, while investors looked for...
Singapore 9-month investment banking fees reach 5-year high of US$693.8 million
[SINGAPORE] Investment banking fees in Singapore swelled to US$693.8 million in the first nine months of the year – up 9 per cent year on year and marking the...
Saudi Arabia unexpectedly cuts oil prices to Asia
The official selling price to the region is below the average of Oman and Dubai pricesPublished Mon, Oct 5, 2026 · 10:02 AM[CAIRO] Saudi Arabia unexpectedly cut crude oil...
CDL’s Lucerne Grand launch moves 61% of 570 units at average S$2,480 psf
Prices at the 99-year Jurong Lakeside project start from S$1.5 million for a two-bedroom unit[SINGAPORE] City Developments Ltd’s (CDL) Jurong condominium project Lucerne Grand sold 61 per cent of...
Opec+ agrees to keep November oil output targets steady
Published Sun, Oct 4, 2026 · 04:35 PM[LONDON/MOSCOW] Opec+ agreed to keep oil-production targets steady for November at a meeting on Sunday (Oct 4), the producer group said, in...
AI frenzy drives Hong Kong share sales to record US$47.5 billion in Q3 despite stock sell-off
Share sales have topped US$120 billion in the third quarter as boom extends across Asia-PacificPublished Sun, Oct 4, 2026 · 11:05 AMBANKERS in Hong Kong skipped the summer break...

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How Test Engineers Decide What Counts as Good Enough
The statistical reasoning is sound, even if the ingestion test’s verisimilitude is a little hand-wavy. Bird populations change; migratory patterns, or what experts call “waves of biomass,” are fickle....
The Constant Rediscovery of the Cult Novelist Barbara Trapido
A story crystallized. A girl—Katherine—from a prim, quiet, middle-class home would enter the bohemian, rude world of the Goldmans. She would fall in love, or some version of it....
Gerald Cyrus’s Magnificent Images of Black Life
I first came across Cyrus’s photographs in 2024, when I discovered a slim booklet of his, “Harlem Nights 1990-2001,” at the Photographers’ Gallery bookshop, in London. His images of...
Jeremy Strong Is Not Quite Over It
Another aspect here is that there was another performance of Mark Zuckerberg, as a younger man, by Jesse Eisenberg, in an earlier film written by your director, Aaron Sorkin....
Will A.I. Still Take Our Jobs?
“If every team can generate better AI-based analysis to support their arguments, then the demand for conflict resolution and authority-based decisions will increase dramatically,” the economists Luis Garicano, Jin...
AI Voice Agents Get Faster and More Human With ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs released two new speech models on Monday, named v4 and v4 Turbo. Aimed at AI voice agents, they speak 90 languages, answer with less delay, and copy a...

Fashion

Digital payment tokens, insurance policies could become tax-exempted for Singapore family offices
MAS will update the designated investment list for the family office tax exemption scheme, says Gan Kim Yong[SINGAPORE] Singapore will update the list of investments eligible for tax exemption...
Singapore shares track regional gains on Monday; STI up 0.5%
Published Mon, Oct 5, 2026 · 06:35 PM[SINGAPORE] Singapore stocks ended higher on Monday (Oct 5), tracking gains in the region.The benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) rose 0.5 per...
Case calls for law on prepayments as True group’s consumer losses soar to S$3.78 million
Total year-to-date prepaid package losses jump 147% to S$6.7 million from $2.7 million in 2025[SINGAPORE] Amid a wave of abrupt business closures in the fitness and wellness sectors, the...
South-east Asia’s LNG hunger sparks caution over volatile prices, infra gaps
Observers call for faster shift away from ‘roller coaster’ fuel after major supply disruptions[SINGAPORE, BANGKOK] South-east Asia’s demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) is expanding even in the wake...
Is Stoneweg Europe Stapled Trust’s manager-internalisation deal the key to reviving S-Reits?
Some view manager-internalisation as a ‘nuclear option’, but Sert is demonstrating that it is also a constructive growth-oriented strategy[SINGAPORE] When Stoneweg Europe Stapled Trust (Sert) flagged in August that...
Opec+ set to keep November oil output targets steady amid Iran war disruptions: sources
Published Sun, Oct 4, 2026 · 04:35 PM[LONDON/MOSCOW] Opec+ is set to keep oil production targets steady for November, three sources close to the matter said ahead of the...