Balmain turns fashion show into music fest featuring Cher
French designer Olivier Rousteing pulled out all the stops on Wednesday in his latest collection for Balmain at Paris Fashion Week, closing his show with US star Cher on the catwalk.
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Apple App Store pulls Russian social network VKontakte
Apple on Wednesday confirmed that it removed popular Russian social network VKontakte from its App Store globally due to sanctions imposed by Britain.
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Hurricane Ian pounds Florida as monster Category 4 storm
Hurricane Ian slammed into the coast of southwest Florida as a monster Category 4 storm on Wednesday with powerful winds and torrential rains threatening "catastrophic" damage and flooding.
Read moreStocks rally with sterling after surprise move by Bank of England
Global stock markets rallied on Wednesday in volatile trading after a surprise intervention by the Bank of England pressured bond yields in Britain and the United States and lifted the pound.
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Neymar swept up in Brazil vote battle after video for Bolsonaro
Football superstar Neymar was swept up in Brazil's presidential election campaign after posting a video on social media Wednesday thanking President Jair Bolsonaro for visiting the player's charitable children's foundation.
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Barbados wins first loan deal from IMF climate change fund
Barbados on Tuesday became the first country to secure agreement on a financing package under a new IMF fund aimed at helping low-income countries tackle the impacts of climate change.
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Licence to bill: Bond's Aston Martin sells for nearly £3 million
A replica of an Aston Martin DB5 used for the stunts in James Bond blockbuster "No Time to Die" sold for nearly £3 million at auction on Wednesday, auction house Christie's said.
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White House announces multi-billion dollar plan to attack obesity, hunger
The White House announced Wednesday billions of dollars in pledges from major corporations -- including the likes of fast food behemoth Burger King -- to craft a national strategy on ending the twin US challenges of hunger and obesity.
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Iran's Raisi condemns 'chaos' of protests after Mahsa Amini's death
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi condemned Wednesday the "chaos" sparked by a wave of women-led protests over the death of Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the Islamic republic's morality police.
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Protest-hit Iran launches strikes that kill 13 in Iraqi Kurdistan
Iran launched cross-border missile and drone strikes that killed 13 people in Iraq's Kurdistan region Wednesday after accusing Kurdish armed groups based there of stoking a wave of unrest that has rocked the Islamic republic.
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