1) Armpit sniffer Getting a whiff of BO may sound like the pits, but it’s all in a day’s work for Peta Jones. She works as a deodorant producer for Unilever in Australia, developing the Dove, Lynx and Impulse brands. A big part of her job is sniffing strangers’ armpits to check her products’ work....
I sincerely hope that it was Prince William’s turn to do the early childcare shift at the weekend. Because judging by pictures of Kate out shopping in Chelsea on Friday afternoon, she was long overdue a lie-in. With her normally lustrous and bouncy hair scraped into an updo and her eyes puffy and lined, the 33-year-old...
The main auction houses, Sotheby’s and Christie’s, all also continue to publish the official results. 2015-St, which became for many a year of crisis, political, economic upheavals and even wars for these houses has been very profitable: the wealthy continue to spend millions of dollars purchasing original paintings...
Russia's economy will demonstrate zero growth in 2016, with real revenues down by 2%, Mikhail Zadornov, CEO of VTB24, a major Russian retail bank, said in an interview with the Vedomosti daily on Thursday, according to Russian news agency TASS. "According to our forecasts, next year zero growth is expected in the...
Clowns can be creepy. As in the novel of Stephen king’s “It”, or Twist from “American horror story”, or a real-life killer, dressed as a clown – they justify their sinister reputation. Psychologists and people suffering koulrofobiey (fear of clowns), does not believe that this is ridiculous....
Russian singer Lolita published on Instagram new photos from the shooting. New video she recorded with singer Denis Maidanov. Photos that Milyavskaya published, collected a lot of laudatory comments and nearly 10,000 likes. However, there are those subscribers who mentioned the unnaturalness of face of the singer. They...
Let's everybody just calm down, mmkay? Del Rey books, gatekeeper of all the literary Star Wars fiction, has temporarily pulled the plug on its own "Star Wars Books" Facebook page. The move comes in the wake of threats from a group of disgruntled fans who have threatened to share The Force Awakens spoilers as...
President Poroshenko commented on Vladimir Putin's decree on the withdrawal of preference regime of the CIS FTA during his Brussels visit on Wednesday. "Last year we made a very difficult and sensitive decision to postpone the launch of the DCFTA for a year. We hoped that this additional time would be used to find the...
Kyiv’s District Administrative Court satisfied the claim of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine in full, banning the activities of the Communist Party of Ukraine, according to the court’s official website. It is noted that the District Administrative Court of Kyiv has completed consideration of the lawsuit by the...
As Russia detained eight commercial ships under Turkish flags in the Black Sea since the jet crisis had erupted between the two countries, Turkey has detained 27 Russian vessels in a retaliatory move, Russian Dozhd TV channel reported with reference to Turkish daily newspaper Habertürk. According to unconfirmed information...
As of today, the military option to return the annexed territory of Crimea is excluded, Ukrainian presidential envoy for Crimean Tatar People's affairs, and Ukrainian MP from the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko Mustafa Dzhemilev (Cemilev) said in an interview with Ukrainian weekly news magazine Focus. "Russia has depoyed...
The Ukrainian government has banned movement of goods and services to and from the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, except for the transportation of personal belongings of citizens and humanitarian aid, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said at a government meeting. "I want to start with the most important decision. The...