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It was all too much for Coco Chanel. As the sixties started to swing, the French fashion icon pronounced mini-skirts to be “just awful”....
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Women in Tokyo are threatening a sex boycott against any man who votes for the front-runner in this weekend’s gubernatorial election, in protest at...
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Spanish factories are raising output as the jobs-scarce economy gingerly picks itself up after a long recession, official data showed Friday. Spanish industry pushed...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed outrage on Friday over a leaked conversation in which a top US diplomat used the f-word to disparage the...
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Pakistan’s fledgling peace talks with the Taliban suffered a fresh blow Friday as a negotiator for the militants said he would take no further...
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Europe’s main stock markets hung on to small gains on Friday despite disappointing data showing the US economy is not adding many jobs despite...
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German industrial production shrank in December, hit by falling activity in the manufacturing and energy sectors, data showed on Friday, but analysts insisted the...
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Hong Kong’s Mandarin Oriental hotel stirred up ridicule on Friday with an afternoon-tea promotion for men based on pork pies and beef rather than...
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Japan will scrap plans to generate electricity at its multi-billion dollar experimental Monju fast breeder reactor, a media report said on Friday, in a...
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The story of Schapelle Corby, the Australian woman jailed in a notorious Indonesian prison for a crime she says she did not commit, has...