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...
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...
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...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed on Wednesday a decree suspending the agreement on a free trade zone regarding Ukraine effective from January 1, 2016, according to the official legal information online portal. Earlier today, the European Commission suggested that the latest consultations between Ukraine, Russia and...
The Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski says he would be open to changing his country's name, raising hopes of an end to one of the world's most unusual diplomatic spats – a 24-year linguistic dispute with Greece, according to The Guardian. Gruevski says he is willing to reopen dialogue on the issue with...
Canadian company which started out bottling Rocky Mountains air as a joke has seen its product fly off the shelves in pollution-hit China, with first shipment selling out in four days, according to The Telegraph. A Canadian start-up company bottling fresh air from the Rocky Mountains has seen sales to China soar because of...
One Ukrainian soldier was killed and another one was wounded in the Donbas conflict zone in the last day, presidential administration press secretary for Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) issues Colonel Oleksandr Motuzianyk said at a briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday. "Over the last day, one Ukrainian soldier was killed and...