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Colombia's fashion week kicks off in the city of Medellin, attracting 11,000 national and international buyers from 36 countries. Rough Cut (No reporter narration)

Colombia's fashion week kicks off in the city of Medellin, attracting 11,000 national and international buyers from 36 countries. Rough Cut (No reporter narration)

"It's a strange idea, really, to go stirring up all these dead things." For decades after the Second World War, mainstream French culture felt much the same as the narrator of Patrick Modiano's novel Ring Roads. With the economy soaring, the consoling myths of the Resistance locked in place, and France a high-fashion exporter of formalistic, anti-historical schools of thought and art, the bitter shame and division of the Occupation years could be safely buried.

Workplaces, which account for so much of our waking lives, receive nothing like enough attention in fiction. Or rather, certain kinds of workplaces go ignored. Back in the day, David Lodge told us more about the life of the campus lecturer than I, for one, needed to know. Thanks to the detective novel industry, we all boast an impressive knowledge of a pathologist's working routine. Ian McEwan gave us a day-in-the-life of a brain surgeon. But how many of us have any idea what a quantity surveyor, or a housing officer, actually does? Читать дальше...

Where will you be on the 12th of August? On holiday? At work? Or will you be one of the few thousand people – equivalent to two thirds of an Old Trafford crowd – for whom "The Glorious Twelfth" is the start of the grouse-shooting season?

"You owe everything to your name, boy." If Mark Antony thought he would wound Octavian with this slur, he was surely mistaken. Because Octavian, who had taken the name of his adoptive father, Caesar, and added it to his own, and who would later acquire the previously unused honorific title, Augustus, knew all about the power of names, and indeed the power of appearance compared with reality.

Workplaces, which account for so much of our waking lives, receive nothing like enough attention in fiction. Or rather, certain kinds of workplaces go ignored. Back in the day, David Lodge told us more about the life of the campus lecturer than I, for one, needed to know. Thanks to the detective novel industry, we all boast an impressive knowledge of a pathologist's working routine. Ian McEwan gave us a day-in-the-life of a brain surgeon. But how many of us have any idea what a quantity surveyor, or a housing officer, actually does? Читать дальше...

The 18th century was a pivotal time in the development of an interest in nature, especially in Britain. Two of these four books are specifically about nature in the 18th century and another devotes a fair proportion to the period. Why? Because as Susannah Gibson writes in Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? (OUP, £16.99), "some very strange creatures became known to naturalists... better tools like microscopes enabled naturalists to make more minute examinations of natural objects... and Enlightenment... Читать дальше...

At over 700 pages long and littered with graphic descriptions of the physical and sexual abuse endured by the central character, Jude, as a child –and the trauma he suffers thereafter – in theory, Hanya Yanagihara's beast of a second novel shouldn't work.

The focus on Indian cities have often borne out the truth of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's insightful observation that when it comes to India the British give the impression that they have authored the country. So books on Indian cities concentrate on the four great cities that were either developed by the British, Bombay, Calcutta and Madras, or radically altered, Delhi.

I don't recommend looking up Sweet Caress + photos on your search engine. It starts off harmlessly enough with kittens and horses but rapidly deteriorates. My excuse is that I was trying to find the origin of the pictures William Boyd uses in this latest novel. His subject, Amory Clay, is a photographer at a time when it was not an altogether respectable career for a woman (the character is born in 1908).

Where are you now and what can you see?

As the title suggests, this is a book with the ambition to be not just another history of modern France, but the history. In many respects, it succeeds. Jonathan Fenby positively gallops through a comprehensive account of France from 1789 until now. He has not selected only the juicy bits – the Revolution, Napoleon, the First World War, De Gaulle, 1968. He fills in what happens in between so that events are joined up and the narrative complete.

'Confessions of the Lioness' is inspired by fact. Hunters were called in response to lion attacks that coincided with the visit of environmental field officers during a program of prospecting in Mozambique. "Gradually", Mia Couto writes in his author's note, "the hunters realised that the mysteries they were having to confront were merely symptoms of social conflicts". The problem with the ensuing novel is that this realisation is not gradual. The second problem is that though this could be remedied by dramatisation, it isn't. Читать дальше...

Triumph Motorcycles India has extended its adventure motorcycle lineup with the launch of the new Tiger 800XR. On road or off, the new Tiger’s manners, riding position, handling and engine are claimed to give the rider everything required to enjoy every ride. The new Triumph Tiger 800XR is priced at 10,50,000 ex-showroom Delhi. The new Tiger […]

Southampton manager Ronald Koeman says his side are ready for the challenges of Europa League football as they prepare to host Vitesse Arnhem in tonight's third-round qualifier.

LONDON/JOHANNESBURG, July 30 (Reuters) - Platinum producer Lonmin is facing its deepest crisis to date, hurt by a downturn in the metal and haunted by a mixture of bad luck and debatable management choices that are putting its survival at risk.

LONDON (Reuters) - Old rivalries will be renewed when Arsenal play Chelsea in the Community Shield at Wembley on Sunday, with the Gunners hoping to prove they are the real deal and finally a match for the Premier League champions ahead of the new season.

Orders, sales and net profits are all down at Siemens - with China too a drag on its Q2 numbers. And another European engineering powerhouse, Rolls-Royce, reports a 32% decline in first-half profits. But like Siemens, those results are still better than expected. David Pollard reports.

Orders, sales and net profits are all down at Siemens - with China too a drag on its Q2 numbers. And another European engineering powerhouse, Rolls-Royce, reports a 32% decline in first-half profits. But like Siemens, those results are still better than expected. David Pollard reports.

Orders, sales and net profits are all down at Siemens - with China too a drag on its Q2 numbers. And another European engineering powerhouse, Rolls-Royce, reports a 32% decline in first-half profits. But like Siemens, those results are still better than expected. David Pollard reports.

LONDON (Reuters) - British banks and financial firms could face a compensation bill of up to 33 billion pounds ($52 billion) for not being transparent about commission charges if a landmark legal ruling is applied broadly across the industry, a research firm has estimated.

LONDON, July 30 (Reuters) - Despite winning two out of 10 races so far, Ferrari have no illusions about how tough it will be to match Mercedes when they return for the second half of the Formula One season after the August break.

COLUMBIA — As another police officer has been indicted on a murder charge for fatally shooting a man during a traffic stop, questions are being raised by the family of a Seneca teen fatally shot on Sunday.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has launched the limited edition Linea Elegante in India. The Fiat Linea Elegante gets a fancy exterior accessory kit and some extras on the inside as well. Mechanically, this limited edition Linea remains unchanged to the regular version of this Fiat saloon. Starting with the exterior, the Fiat Linea Elegante gets a […]