SIMPLE PLEASURE (a picnic box for two) - £75

Selfridges launches UK’s first new generation wine bar. A chic new destination to enjoy the world’s finest vintages, with the choice of table service or serve yourself from our ingenious ‘wine juke box’. Complement your wines with an amazing seasonal menu of crustacean, charcuterie or cheese boards.

Ecologists and IBM join hands to monitor river
BEACON, New York: Environmentalists and big corporations often end up in open conflict because they do not see eye to eye on whether a natural resource like a river should be protected or exploited. Read more..


Young local designers, with an emphasis on tailoring, low pricing and Asian accents, are helping to create styles that are unique and yet collectively Hong Kong. Read more..

The independent filmmaker Tom DiCillo in Lyon, during the presentation of “Delirious.”
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Victoria Beckham has some fashion ideas for you.HarperCollins announced Thursday that the former Spice Girl and wife of soccer star David Beckham will have a book out in November, “That Extra Half an Inch: Hair, Heels and Everything in Between.” Read more..

TAIPEI: Heavy metal has never been much of a place for politics. Mosh pits and men dressed in wolf skulls, certainly. But the genre has generally prided itself on having a netherworldly social outlook, making it hard to imagine a metal band playing a concert like Live 8 or otherwise stooping to mainstream debates or, devil forbid, a cause. Read more..
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