Roland Mouret moves flagship store into New York townhouse |
- Roland Mouret moves flagship store into New York townhouse
- Muslims around the world celebrate AidilAdha holiday
- Siti Noor Iasah in Paralympics women’s 400m final, rewrites Asian record
- Indian Kashmir to impose curfew, use drones for vigil ahead of Eid (VIDEO)
- Facebook Messenger now supports payment feature
- More than half of UK girls sexually harassed in school
| Roland Mouret moves flagship store into New York townhouse Posted: 12 Sep 2016 06:38 PM PDT
Mouret has relocated his store just a block down the road into a larger space that that will use the first floor as a retail area, while the upper floors of the house will be reserved for appointments, fittings and the designer's personal use, reports WWD. To mark the opening, Mouret has created a special-edition jumpsuit that will be sold exclusively at the flagship New York store. The store will contrast concrete floors against white carpets and mid-century modern European furniture. A franchise store in Dubai is also in the works. — AFP-Relaxnews  |
| Muslims around the world celebrate AidilAdha holiday Posted: 12 Sep 2016 06:37 PM PDT
Marking the willingness of Ibrahim, or Abraham, to sacrifice his son on God's command, Muslims mark the holiday by slaughtering animals such as sheep and goats. The meat is shared among family and friends and also donated to the poor. Faithful across continents marked the festival which comes as the annual Haj pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia draws to a close. Palestinians flocked to Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque for prayers. In Iraq, authorities adopted tough security measures during the festival, searching worshippers as they entered Abdul-Qadir al-Gilani mosque in Baghdad. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad prayed at a mosque in the Damascus suburb of Daraya, which was evacuated by rebels and surrendered to government control last month, state media reported. In Asia, tens of thousands of people left Bangladesh's capital Dhaka on crowded trains and ferries for their hometowns to celebrate the holiday with family and friends, while in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, Muslims attended morning prayers. The festival was also celebrated across Africa, with the faithful in countries such as Somalia and Kenya attending mass prayers. In Russia, thousands of Muslims gathered for prayers in Moscow while in Britain, Prime Minister Theresa May released a video message to the country's Muslim community. "I am proud of the contribution British Muslims make to this country and proud that Britain is home to people from vibrant and diverse backgrounds," she said. — Reuters |
| Siti Noor Iasah in Paralympics women’s 400m final, rewrites Asian record Posted: 12 Sep 2016 06:29 PM PDT
In the heats at the Rio Olympic Stadium yesterday, Siti Noor Iasah, 27, won the second heat in a time of 58.96s, a new Asian record. She bettered her own old Asian Record of 1:01.33s at the 2014 Asian Para Games in Incheon, South Korea. Siti Noor Iasah then went on to rewrite that record as well at the IPC World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar last year, clocking 60.35s to pick up the bronze. The T2 400m final will be held today and will see the top eight from the two heats held competing. — Bernama |
| Indian Kashmir to impose curfew, use drones for vigil ahead of Eid (VIDEO) Posted: 12 Sep 2016 06:28 PM PDT
Seventy-six protesters have been killed and more than 7,000 wounded in clashes since July in the worst violence in six years in the disputed territory. Two police officers and more than 5,000 security personnel have been wounded. Authorities decided to impose a curfew and keep an aerial watch after reviewing the situation ahead of the festival, a police spokesman said yesterday. Today, Kashmiri separatists are scheduled to march to the United Nations Military Observers Group India Pakistan (UNMOGIP) Office in Srinagar, the state capital. "It has become imperative to impose a strict curfew . . . in view of the separatist march," the spokesman said. Mobile internet and cell phone services have been partially blocked ahead of the festival, the second such disruption since July 9, the day after security services shot dead Burhan Wani, a 22-year-old militant known for his calls to arms on social media. Wani led Hizb-ul Mujahideen, prominent among the groups fighting Indian control of the majority Muslim region. His death came amid a rise in violence and separatist sentiment across the state, which has been at the centre of a decades-long tussle between India and Pakistan. — Reuters |
| Facebook Messenger now supports payment feature Posted: 12 Sep 2016 06:22 PM PDT
"We're kicking off the beginning of messages with payments that will allow businesses to sell products and services directly to customers in Messenger," the huge social network said in a statement. "Customers can check out with a few easy clicks, without ever leaving the Messenger app." The announcement suggests Facebook may be able to monetise its free messaging application, which is used by over a billion people, by making it an e-commerce platform. Facebook earlier this year opened up Messenger to developers to create new applications and "bots" which can interact with users. These bots can provide information but consumers who wanted to make a purchase had to be directed to an external website. The company said developers have created more than 30,000 bots for Messenger, and many more developers are working on applications. "We believe the potential for the Messenger platform is huge, and we continue to invest in making it better for developers to build and create," the statement said. "Moving forward, we are also simplifying the payment and checkout experience in order to reduce the overall friction between wanting something and getting it. People can use their payment information already stored on Messenger and Facebook to check out faster in Messenger threads." — AFP |
| More than half of UK girls sexually harassed in school Posted: 12 Sep 2016 06:22 PM PDT
A parliamentary committee report said sexual bullying had become an expected part of girls' everyday lives. The report found evidence that almost a third of 16 to 18-year-olds had experienced unwanted sexual touching at school. "Surely, no one who reads or hears these striking statistics today could now deny how serious ... this problem is," Katie Russell of Rape Crisis, a charity which works with survivors of sexual abuse, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Young people told the committee that complaints of sexual harassment would often be forgotten, with no action taken. Maria Miller, the lawmaker who chaired the committee, said the report found teachers often accepted sexual harassment as "just banter". Nearly three quarters of 16-18 year old students said they heard terms such as "slut" used towards girls on a regular basis. Miller, from the ruling Conservative party, criticised Britain's education department for having "no coherent plan" to tackle the problem. Under the current UK curriculum, sexual health education is compulsory at secondary school but teaching pupils about relationships and sexual consent is not. A government spokesperson said the department would consider the report's recommendations. "Schools should be safe places and fortunately crime is rare, but no young person should suffer harassment or violence," the spokesperson said. — Reuters |
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