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Sellers of timepieces with rainbow colours face same punishment as country says they could ‘harm morals’
Owners or sellers of rainbow-coloured timepieces made by the Swiss watchmaker Swatch face three years in prison in Malaysia, the interior ministry has said, as the Muslim-majority country rails against LGBTQ+ symbols it says could “harm morals”.
Homosexuality is outlawed in Malaysia and LGBTQ+ people face discrimination.
Russian agents seized millions of dollars worth of Audemars Piguet watches in Moscow in an apparent retaliation for Swiss sanctions banning luxury goods exports, Bloomberg reported, citing Swiss newspaper NZZ am Sonntag.
The watches, which can cost more than £700,000 apiece, were seized from the firm’s local premises by agents from Russia’s FSB security service on Tuesday, the newspaper said. It cited independent sources and a confidential Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs memo written for members of parliament that apparently gave details of the raid.
Faroese art provocateurs want to use canvas of Tal R’s Paris Chic as raw material
A court in Denmark will rule on Monday on whether to prohibit a pair of Faroese art provocateurs from destroying a painting by the Danish artist Tal R and using pieces of the canvas as decorative faces for a line of luxury wristwatches.
Dann Thorleifsson and Arne Leivsgard, who five years ago founded the Kanske watch brand, bought Paris Chic, one of Tal R’s brightly coloured Sexshops series, for £70,000 at the Victoria Miro gallery in London in August.
All proceeds from sale in Switzerland go to research into Duchenne muscular dystrophy
A Patek Philippe watch has sold for a record 31m Swiss francs (£24.2m) at a charity auction hosted by Christie’s in Switzerland. It is by far the highest price ever paid for a wristwatch, and all of the proceeds will be donated to research into muscular dystrophy.
The Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime 6300A-010, which was created specially for the charity auction Only Watch, was bought by a private telephone bidder following a five-minute auction at the Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues, in Geneva, on Saturday. It had been expected to sell for SFr2.5-3m.
Tuesday was the first day of the first trial to arise from the special counsel's probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. The defendant, Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, faces unrelated federal charges of financial fraud that could send him to prison for years.
'I bought the Chicagoist just to run you racist b*****s out of business': Chance the Rapper announces purchase of Chicago news site and calls for Mayor Rahm Emanuel's resignation in new song The terrifying moment a semi-truck dangles over the side of a Florida bridge above the water after the driver loses control and crashes Robin Williams' second wife auctions off their belongings including the actor's Hollywood Walk of Fame star four years after his death Robin Williams' second wife is auctioning off some of the actor's belongings and personal possessions including his star from the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
A bus company employee in Maine told a group of passengers they had to be US citizens in order to ride a bus after an officer from US Customs and Border Protection inquired about their citizenship. The incident, which happened on Memorial Day in Bangor, was captured in cell phone video recorded by a Massachusetts man, Alec Larson He was asked about his citizenship at the bus terminal as he and his girlfriend were boarding a Concord Coach Lines bus for the trip home to Boston.
Tribune-Star/Joseph C. GarzaOnce a Marine...: Donald Lowe, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, watches the Patriot Guard Riders drive by during the Veterans Day parade on Wabash Avenue on Saturday. Tribune-Star/Joseph C. GarzaA reflection of our country: U.S. Army veteran Ben Stoelting waves with his wife, Martha Bennett-Stoelting, as a color guard marches by during the Veterans Day parade on Wabash Avenue on Saturday morning.
It can be difficult for the average citizen to understand the intricacies of an issue such as the nuclear-weapons treaty with Iran. But there is one simple barometer that works for this and all other issues concerning the Mideast: Whatever position John Bolton takes, just take the opposite.
The story is well-known, the "Fifty Fathoms" watch was designed for the French navy. Originally, French officers Bob Maloubier and Claude Riffaud started to work together on requirements in 1952 for a watch to be used during under-water missions.
It's no secret that the world of watches has experienced more than its fair share of turmoil recently. The major luxury groups continue to struggle to turn around the decline in watch sales in recent years, and watch enthusiasts sometimes wonder whether or not the people in charge of making new watches are so worried about balance sheets that it's distracting them from watchmaking.
Amazon.com is under federal investigation for possibly violating U.S. sanctions on Iran, the online giant said Friday in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company says it sold and delivered about $34,000 worth of products - including books, software, consumer electronics, musical instruments and jewelry - to an Iranian embassy, as well as to others with links to the Iranian government, between January 2012 and June 2017.
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events Wouldn't it be nice if all new TV shows were anthologies? Except for the very superior ongoing dramas and comedies, what if every show kept to an eight- or 10-episode arc that wrapped itself up and then, with its creators and some of its repertory cast in tow, moved on to an entirely different story? Viewers could then dip in and out, depending on whether the current story grabs them. On FX, Ryan Murphy and his colleagues have most clearly demonstrated the appeal of this format with "American Horror Story," "American Crime Story" and "Feud."
The oldest commissioned warship in the world had just gone into dry dock, and work had just begun to remove the rigging, the cannon, at least some of the hull planks, the caulking and the more than 2,400 copper plates that loomed just above me. The plates, installed in 1996, had turned that “old statue” green.
The giant tri-flavor holiday popcorn tin sends a message, which is, "I was thinking of you, but not until I was already in the checkout aisle of Big Lots." It says, "Once again, I have drawn the Secret Santa name of a co-worker I do not know."
Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani Rudy Giuliani speaks at Boy Scouts of America's Distinguished Citizen Award Dinner Thursday evening at the Lancaster Marriott, Sept. 29, 2016.
Swiss watch exports are mired in the longest slump since monthly records began in 1988 after lower shipments to Hong Kong led a decline in September. Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry said in a statement Thursday.
In this June 23, 2010 file photo, then-Puerto Rican Sen. Hector Martinez-Maldonado talks to reporters outside federal court in San Juan. The Supreme Court seems skeptical of Martinez-Maldonado's bid to avoid a second trial on bribery charges.
Views from around the world on Monday's first U.S. presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump: MILTON GAN, a Sydney-based photographer, said it seemed like Trump was trying to rein in his temper for the first 15 minutes, then went off the rails. "He started interrupting Clinton, he started interrupting Lester and he started steamrolling.
Media from across the globe received swag bags filled with water bottles, lapel pins and toys when they arrived in Philadelphia Sunday in preparation for the Democratic National Convention. The event begins Monday at the Wells Fargo Center and runs through Thursday, July 28. Sen. Bernie Sanders and First Lady Michelle Obama are slated to speak to delegates tonight.