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Forget Diwali mithai, gifting a luxury mask is the flavour of the season: Ravi Gupta
The founder of bespoke luxury fashion brand Gargee Designers is making the most of the demand for customised and luxury wedding masks. But is it enough to tide over the crisis in the luxury industry?
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After 50 years, a suspect emerges in a cold murder case
With the help of DNA technology, John Jeffrey Sipos, 75, was arrested in Pennsylvania last weekend in the 1969 murder of Mary Scott, a 23-year-old California woman
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Exclusive: Advertising body asks WhiteHat Jr to pull down ads
ASCI finds five of the edtech startup's commercials in violation of advertising code, which includes making misleading claims
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Women on Qatar Airways flight strip-searched, sparking outrage
Female passengers said they were pulled from a Sydney-bound flight in Doha and given a medically invasive exam to see if they had recently given birth after an abandoned newborn was found in an airport bathroom.
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A teacher, his killer and the failure of French integration
For generations, public schools assimilated immigrant children into French society by instilling the nation's ideals. The beheading of a teacher has raised doubts about whether that model still works
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Trump had one last story to sell. The Wall Street Journal wouldn't buy it.
The Journal had seemed to be the perfect outlet for a story the Trump advisers believed could sink Biden's candidacy
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China aims to end extreme poverty, but COVID-19 exposes gaps
Xi Jinping, is expected to declare victory in the next two months in a campaign to eliminate extreme poverty in the country
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Ten interesting things we read this week
Some of the most fascinating topics covered this week are: Sports (Solving NFL's scheduling conundrum), Business (Covid is rewriting the rules of corporate governance), Geopolitics (Game of alliances in a possible India-China conflict), and Lifestyle (Negative thinking can actually fuel success!)
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Trump vs Biden: Who said what on key issues in final presidential debate
As Donald Trump and Joe Biden went up against each other in the final US Presidential debate, here's what they said on coronavirus, Russia and China, climate change, the healthcare system, and more
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Obama mocks Trump's Chinese bank account: 'They would've called me Beijing Barry'
"Can you imagine if I had a secret Chinese bank account?" the former president asked, referring to a recent Times report, as he returned to the campaign trail in Philadelphia to stump for Joe Biden
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Pope Francis, in a shift for Church, voices support for same-sex civil unions
The comments, shown in a new documentary, are the strongest yet from a pontificate that has taken a more tolerant and inclusive tone