A shopper carries a Nike bag in San Francisco, Dec. 17, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nike is making a big bet on India. The retailer, which has been struggling to revive its business and regain momentum under CEO Elliott Hill, is hoping the world’s most populous country can help it
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We are fortunate to live at a time when books of all kinds are available from many sources. As historian Andrew Pettegree shows in his lively, thoroughly engaging The Bookshop: A History of Bookselling from the Dawn of Print to the Twenty-First Century, it’s taken many twists and turns to reach this point. The author
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Monia Barbaro, on screen now in Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial, looked every bit the movie star in a sultry Armani Privé gown, as did Alexa Demie in a Chanel dress that invoked the sartorial spirit of Cher. Demie’s aquamarine look, Teyana Taylor’s similarly hued Schiaparelli couture, and Swift’s powdery blue frock were among a handful of
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Harry Styles is bringing his “Together, Together” tour to the screen, with filmmaker John Wilson documenting his record-setting residency at New York City’s Madison Square Garden. According to Variety, Wilson has been filming the English popstar at the landmark venue since August. The upcoming film is expected to combine concert footage with a behind-the-scenes look
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Directory of Social Change to be wound up The training and publishing charity has appointed an insolvency practitioner and will be closed down.  The organisation, which employs 25 people, said it had been “squeezed by the huge financial pressures facing the sector”.  A joint statement from William Butler and Debra Allcock Tyler, chair and chief
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Sacking Charity Commission staff who were found to have misled parliament in the regulator’s row with the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman would be a “foolish gesture”, its chair has said.  Asked about the case at the Charity Commission’s annual public meeting in central London yesterday, Dame Julia Unwin said asking people to leave would
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KFC’s U.S. restaurants will ditch PepsiCo and switch to Coca-Cola beverages next year, marking the first time in decades that the Yum Brands chain has changed its drink supplier, the restaurant company said Thursday. Some of KFC’s international markets serve Coke products, but the chain’s U.S. restaurants have stuck with PepsiCo drinks ever since Pepsi
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In Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, a Virtuocon guard famously stands in front of a commandeered steamroller, screaming “No!!” three times before being run over. The joke, of course, is that the hazard moved so slowly he had ample time to step out of the way. For months, equity traders holding CoreWeave (CRWV) have
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Coming of age in 1920s Britain, Olivia yearns for freedom. Her father, a closeted actor, and his longtime lover have established a life of quiet respectability in the country, their security dependent on conformity and discretion. When Olivia meets wild, working-class Tamsin, she can no longer contain her desire for a more liberated life—but in
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BANGKOK – U.S. officials pressed Beijing on market access issues for Mastercard Inc and Citigroup Inc during at least two bilateral meetings with Chinese counterparts in Bangkok this week, according to a U.S. Treasury official.  The Treasury delegation, led by Deputy Secretary Francis Brooke, held bilateral meetings with officials from the People’s Bank of China
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on Thursday reported a record third-quarter profit that beat estimates, powered by an unrelenting global appetite for AI chips. Here are TSMC’s third-quarter results against LSEG SmartEstimates, which are weighted toward forecasts from analysts who are more consistently accurate: Revenue: 1.49 trillion new Taiwan dollars ($46.36 billion) vs. NT$1.47 trillion Net
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There’s nothing supernatural in this Paul Walker–starring road movie, but that doesn’t mean it’s not scary as hell. The late Fast & Furious lynchpin got back in a car for this thriller just a few months after the now ubiquitous franchise made its debut, but this time he—alongside Steve Zahn—is a hapless near-victim of a
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The last-gen Apple Watch Ultra 3 is down to $649 on Amazon, marking a whopping $150 discount and matching its lowest price to date. Buy Apple Watch Ultra 3 at Amazon Housed in a titanium case, the rugged Apple Watch Ultra 3 offers GPS and cellular connectivity alongside precise fitness tracking. The smart wearable’s health
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The Charity Commission is “clear-eyed” on the threat posed by hostile foreign state influences, its legal chief has said. Speaking at the Charity Law Association annual conference in central London, Jan Lasik, director of legal and accountancy services at the Charity Commission, said the regulator had a number of live inquiries regarding charities with potential
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