January2017

News Hour: Italy’s high-end tailor Ermenegildo Zegna launched Milan’s menswear fashion show on Friday with a relaxed yet sophisticated collection inspired by classical looks from the 1940s and 1950s. From Cashmere suits to vegetable-leather overcoats, Zegna’s...

News Hour: Luxury good maker LVMH said its Louis Vuitton brand had ceased all trading with Vietnamese farms which animal rights activist group Peta alleged mistreated crocodiles, whose skins are used to make handbags and other...

News Hour: Bangladeshi-born scientist Dr. Akhter Hossain and his team discover molecule that controls appetite. http://media.sbs.com.au/audio/bangla_170114_615724.mp3 An international team of researchers from Melbourne’s Florey Institute and Cambridge University discovered a molecule, known as peptide 5, plays...

News Hour: Russia is facing increased cyber attacks from abroad, a senior security official was quoted on Sunday as saying, responding to Western accusations that Moscow is aggressively targeting information networks in the United States and...

Bahrain on Sunday executed three Shi’ite Muslim men convicted of killing three policemen in a 2014 bomb attack, the first such executions in over two decades, drawing condemnation from foreign officials in the region and beyond....

News Hour: Kick-starting 2017 with panache, the undisputed next generation superstar of Bollywood and Indian cinema’s most inimitable actor – RANVEER SINGH – has become the first Indian male celebrity to grace the cover of Esquire...

News Hour: In some parts of Mosul, you can almost forget that a war is being waged over the city between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants who still control more than half of it –...

News Hour: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday that American automakers should starting assembling motor vehicles in the United States if they wanted to do business in country. “Car companies and others, if they want...

News Hour: Major powers will signal to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday that a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians is the only solution, with France warning him that plans to move the U.S. Embassy...

News Hour: In a region where school enrolment rates are very low, and early marriages a major cause of dropout among young girls, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has set up school canteens to...