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Christie’s to Auction Bill Blass Apparel and Personal Correspondence
Christie’s will present “Bill Blass: American Elegance,” an exhibition and auction honoring Bill Blass, the designer who played a crucial role in defining American style and dressed some of...
Sister, Sister: Venus and Serena Williams’ Decades of Coordinated Style On and Off the Court
Tennis icons Venus and Serena Williams, just about 15 months apart in age, have been known as a famous duo since breaking into the professional athletic world as teenage...
Colombian Leader Implores Trump for Tariff Relief Following Earthquake
One week after a high-magnitude earthquake shook Colombia’s western region, the South American nation is still reeling from its impacts—and hoping for grace from President Donald Trump as it...
Mark Gong Opens First Stand-alone Store at Shanghai’s Iapm Mall
Gong Girl — not to be confused with “Gone Girl” — can finally reconvene offline outside of Shanghai Fashion Week gatherings, as Mark Gong’s eponymous brand, known for its...
World
Diana Ejaita’s “Before the Plunge”
For the cover of the August 24 & 31, 2026, issue, the artist Diana Ejaita takes us where many of us would like to be at the height of...
The Improbable Longevity of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”
Executives loved the show’s winking humor, but worried about its familiar setting. In the early two-thousands, HBO’s roster featured three shows that addressed Hollywood’s casual cruelties: “The Comeback,” “Entourage,”...
Anatomy of a Sex Scandal
What a nineteenth-century uproar reveals about our zeal for public shaming—and the truths that get trampled along the way. Source link
Rachel Cusk’s Protest Against Personhood
“The Yahoo Boys,” “Unsayable,” “Sunrise,” and “Skin Contact.” Source link
Business
German farmers warn of drought toll on grain harvest
Germany's grain harvest is expected to fall by seven percent this year after months of severe drought and heatwaves, the German Farmers' Association (DBV) said Tuesday."An overly dry spring...
Rupee fall may reduce effective incentives for semiconductor projects
The impact could be significant because nearly 65 per cent of the cost of a semiconductor project is spent on machinery, most of which has to be...
Christie’s to Auction Bill Blass Apparel and Personal Correspondence
Christie’s will present “Bill Blass: American Elegance,” an exhibition and auction honoring Bill Blass, the designer who played a crucial role in defining American style and dressed some of...
Revolut sets sights on Australia’s cut-throat mortgage market
Fintech wins Australian banking licence in July, its first in Asia-Pacific; it has launched savings accounts and credit cardsPublished Tue, Aug 18, 2026 · 03:41 PM[SYDNEY] European fintech Revolut...
News
Embattled GOP Rep Doesn’t Deny Dating Teenager While In Congress
It’s not looking good for the disgraced MAGA Representative Cory Mills.Governor Ron DeSantis told reporters Friday that he didn’t support Mills’ bid ahead of the state’s primary elections on...
Trump Melts Down at Another Female Reporter
President Donald Trump lashed out at a female reporter Monday for asking about his decision to significantly reduce military coordination with South Korea. Trump had no problem ranting about...
White House Takes the Bait as Ossoff Targets Trump Aide Natalie Harp
In November, Abbott designated the Council of American-Islamic Relations as a “terrorist” organization, just months after the group documented a surge of Islamophobic rhetoric nationally. In May, Abbott ordered...
Transcript: Trump Tirade over Gas Prices Backfires in Epic Self-Own
And this message is getting through. The war is wildly unpopular with the American mainstream, nearly as unpopular as Trump’s economic performance. And that one-two punch is absolutely devastating,...
Beauty
Rupee fall may reduce effective incentives for semiconductor projects
The impact could be significant because nearly 65 per cent of the cost of a semiconductor project is spent on machinery, most of which has to be...
Is the American dream losing its allure for Asia’s brightest students?
By Karishma Vaswani
The US has never had to try that hard to convince Asia’s brightest to come to its shores — the allure of a...
China’s ByteDance signs AI copyright pact with Hollywood trade group
ByteDance(Photo: Reuters)1 min read Last Updated : Aug 17 2026 | 11:06 PM IST
ByteDance and the ??Motion Picture Association on Monday signed an agreement to strengthen copyright ??safeguards...
Sebi revamps mutual fund registration process, sets out eligibility norms
Sebi on Monday revamped the registration process for mutual funds, introducing a consolidated application framework in a bid to streamline preliminary and final approvals while requiring prospective sponsors...
Celebrity
Nitin Nabin appoints BJP in-charges for poll-bound UP, Punjab, Gujarat
BJP president Nitin Nabin on Tuesday appointed Rajya Sabha MP Vinod Tawde and national general secretary as in-charge of party affairs in Uttar Pradesh and newly appointed national...
Best of BS Opinon: Policy credibility needs coherence, not action alone
Governments and institutions are rarely inactive. They announce reforms, pass laws, intervene in markets, adjust rules and defend their records. But action alone does not create credibility. Credibility...
MMDR Bill tweak: NMDC flags ₹15,786 crore Karnataka tax exposure
NMDC, India’s largest iron ore miner, has disclosed a potential liability of ₹15,785.72 crore from Karnataka’s proposed retrospective tax on mineral rights and mineral-bearing land, highlighting the extent...
Horizon Industrial Parks IPO gets 14% subscription on first day of bidding
The initial public offering of Horizon Industrial Parks Ltd received 14 per cent subscription on the first day of bidding on Monday.
The company's IPO received bids...
Culture
Konstantin Sintsov: Business Expansion, Philanthropy and Community Impact
Konstantin Sintsov is an entrepreneur and philanthropist who helped found Rusagrotrans, the grain-hauling operator that reshaped how agricultural cargo moved by rail across the region. Since 2019, when he...
Ecommerce Shipping Startup ClearJet Raises $25M Series B
Here is a founder story worth studying. ClearJet just raised a $25 million Series B, led by Edison Partners, to expand a company that flies packages on spare space...
AI Native Work: Why Adding Tools Is Not Enough
If your team is using AI every day but still feels stuck, you are not alone, and a new essay from investor Bob Morse explains why. Morse, co-founder of...
Sembcorp says potential IPO of Indian renewable unit remains preliminary
It responds to a Bloomberg report that the listing could raise as much as US$500 million[SINGAPORE] Sembcorp Industries said on Monday (Aug 17) that “no definitive decision” has been...
Gold, silver, platinum and palladium: What Singapore investors should know about these precious metals
[SINGAPORE] Precious metals have seen sharp swings in 2026 amid shifting interest rate expectations and geopolitical uncertainty.But while gold, silver, platinum and palladium are often grouped together as a...
Style
“The End of Oak Street” Is a Weirdly Alienated Jurassic Lark
Mitchell springs his most inspired twist early on, and you should skip the rest of this paragraph if you care to experience it fresh. In short, it isn’t the...
Wellness Startups Rebound as Investors Chase AI and Data
Investors are warming back up to health and fitness, and the money is chasing a very specific kind of company. A new Crunchbase sector snapshot found that wellness startups...
Your Friendly Neighborhood Hooters
Admission to the Hooters museum—the “Museeum,” as the sign hanging above its threshold calls it—at the original Clearwater location is free: hang a right past the hostess stand, attended...
A Tasting Menu That Uses Every Last Scrap
The meal is listed as six courses (seven, if you spring for a Wagyu supplement, eighty dollars for two), but what you’re served is actually closer to a dozen,...
Fashion
Revolut sets sights on Australia’s cut-throat mortgage market
Fintech wins Australian banking licence in July, its first in Asia-Pacific; it has launched savings accounts and credit cardsPublished Tue, Aug 18, 2026 · 03:41 PM[SYDNEY] European fintech Revolut...
Xiaomi Q2 earnings key to extending stock’s best rally in a year
The smartphone maker’s shares could continue its advance if its earnings, due on Aug 18, show it has a handle on rising material costsPublished Tue, Aug 18, 2026 ·...
Nvidia to invest US$1.5 billion in SB Energy under OpenAI data centre deal
Published Mon, Aug 17, 2026 · 10:59 PM[NEW YORK] Nvidia will invest US$1.5 billion in SoftBank-backed SB Energy and secure up to 8 gigawatts of AI computing capacity at...
Hollywood strikes first AI copyright truce with ByteDance
The Motion Picture Assn. has struck its first agreement with an artificial intelligence company, saying Monday that ByteDance has strengthened copyright guardrails into its AI video and image tools...
