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She’s just come from convincing Chinese leaders to free blind dissident Chen Guangcheng. Soon she’ll cajole India’s leaders to reduce oil imports from Iran. But at the moment, Hillary Rodham Clinton is renewing old friendships in one of the world’s poorest nations. “Two of my favorite men in the world!” she gushes as she sits [...]

Vancouver’s one per cent have a new place to spend their millions. Starting Wednesday, wealthy members of Colton’s Personal Couture will pay $25,000 upfront to shop the couture brands by appointment in a private showroom stocked with their favourite luxury labels. Of the annual fee, $7,500 goes to membership dues, and the $17,500 balance is [...]

Lancome is getting patriotic already, just in time for the Diamond Jubilee. The beauty brand has teamed up with fashion designer Georgia Hardinge to customise two of their iconic skincare bottles – Genefique and Visionnaire. Hardinge will be hand-painting each bottle (Genefique will be embellished with a red, white and blue crown while Visionnaire will [...]

On a sunny late April morning in Monte Carlo, 42 exceedingly rare vintage cars from around the world assembled on the plaza in front of the famed casino. The roar of revving engines in autos dating from 1913 to a token modern concept car reverberated through our bones as we awaited the start of the [...]

One, Barack Obama is an evolutionary, 21st-century hero who supports equality for all. Two, Mitt Romney is a gay-bashing bully mired in the previous century, who also supports a war on women and, oh yeah, hates dogs. Obama’s Big Announcement that he supports gay marriage came about for the following reasons: (a) He had no [...]

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, Philippines  – Watched by a throng, National Capital Region’s Maureen Emily Schrijvers didn’t disappoint and dazzled the crowd with a jump to remember. The tall, comely Schrijvers, 16, bagged the secondary high jump gold in record fashion – her 1.62m leap shattering the four-year old mark of 1.61m set by Cordillera’s Marie Felice [...]

Berenice Bejo ”plays the game” by being glamorous on the red carpet. The ‘Artist’ actress favours a more low-key look in her everyday style but is happy to don jewellery for high-profile events because she thinks it is important to live up to the expectations of being a star. She said: ”I don’t usually wear [...]

As I was evaluating Mrs. Jones for the first time last week, I stopped after doing an inventory on all her prescriptions. I looked her in the eyes and told her that I was all about money. I then told her I was all about her money. She was on four name brand medications for [...]

Dinosaurs have never seen such amazing footwear as what was on display last Friday at the ROM. Although I’m sure the cave ladies did their best with what they had, I just don’t think they could hold a torch to some of the attendee’s choices, which were highlighted by a pair that had steel spikes [...]

Between parking, packing and getting through security, I often find going to the airport to be an anxiety-producing experience. On my last trip, I was running behind schedule and could not find a place to park anywhere in the South Garage of Richmond International Airport. After driving around and around, sometimes following wrong-way arrows and [...]

The $37 million Caterpillar Visitors Center is on schedule to open the same day as its next-door neighbor, the $100 million Peoria Riverfront Museum. Save the date. It’s Oct. 20, 2012. With a world-class hotel tied in with the expanded space at the Peoria Civic Center and the two new shiny metal-and-glass buildings that fill [...]

Some women have a thing for jewelry. Kathy Lamont treasures her 13 smoke detectors. You would too if you were in Kathy’s shoes. Kathy used to have two sons: Kole and Kyle. That changed nine years ago this month. “I knew at that moment that Kole didn’t make it out,” Lamont recalls about the night [...]

Hotter Shoes has revealed its new smart comfort shoe collection, which features a range of comfortable and stylish footwear for weddings and other special occasions. Designers at Hotter Comfort Concept shoes created this range of stylish, comfy women’s special occasion shoes to help women keep a spring in their step at this season’s ‘must-attend’ wedding. [...]

Iris Apfel would “never wear” the shoes Jimmy Choo launched in her honour. The fashion label made a shoe paying homage to the 90-year-old style icon, who is known for her enormous eyewear and chaotic personal style. The Iris shoe is a hand-woven leather sandal with a five inch killer heel embellished with resin chip [...]

LUXEMBOURG (AP) — The European Union on Monday banned the sale of luxury goods and products to Syria that can have military as well as civilian uses as the U.N. political chief demanded that the Syrian government stop using heavy weapons and comply with a cease-fire. B. Lynn Pascoe told the U.N. Security Council in [...]

More and more retailers are offering wide fitting shoes for women in fashionable, trendy, killer sexy, designer, and sophisticated styles. Some shoes are just denoted as W or wide, whilst others stock E, EE and EEE fittings. Not all online stores categories their shoes as wide fitting in the filter making it hard to shop for them [...]

Two of the 10 Malaysians who were busted at the New Zealand border with about $10 million of methamphetamine in their shoes have pleaded guilty. Each of them was found to be hiding between 800g and 1kg of the drug in the soles of their shoes when they arrived at Auckland International Airport in April. [...]

Mary-Kate Olsen leaves a building carrying three handbags on Friday (July 22) in New York City. The 25-year-old fashion designer and twin sis Ashley, along with their The Row line, have teamed up with Toms shoes to launch a new cashmere collection . The black, gray, and plaid shoes, made from Italian wool and cashmere, are available [...]

Boardmart in Redding will host an event next month to help provide shoes to children in developing countries. The TOMS Style Your Sole Party is co-hosted by TOMS, a shoe manufacturer that specializes in casual shoes made from environmentally friendly materials. The company holds these drives in conjunction with retailers to send shoes to children [...]