LONDON (Dow Jones) -- They may be called Eternity, Addict and Obsession, but fragrances, and their makers, are struggling to captivate an increasingly fickle consumer.
There's nothing better at Christmas than unwrapping those presents. Unless of course, the manufacturer has gone overboard with the packaging.
Mumbau, Dec.14: At the launch of the trophy perfume bottle in Mumbai former cricketer Kapil Dev expressed optimism that the Indian cricket team would play well in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 in West Indies.
SYDNEY (AFP) - Triumphant Ricky Ponting wants the coveted Ashes urn, cricket's holy grail, to remain in Australia after his team wrested it back from England in record time.
A cluster-bomb explosion on Friday wounded three people from the same family in the village of Maarakeh in eastern Tyre. Rasha Zayoun, 15, was very excited when she brought home an electronic bell which plays Christmas rhythms. As soon as she showed it to her mother Alia, and her brother Kassem, the bomb exploded in Rasha's hands.
The stylized glass creations of French artist Rene Lalique (1860-1945) lend a holiday sheen to the Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art's Riverwalk Gallery annex.
Patrick Suskind's ingenious bestseller of 1985 finally gets the film treatment, though whether Tom Tykwer's adaptation will enhance the novel's standing is very doubtful. Short of filming it in "odorama" there seems little Tykwer can bring to a story so heavily dependent on a sense of smell. True, he stages the birth of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Ben Whishaw) in the oppressively foetid ...
SYDNEY Triumphant Ricky Ponting wants the coveted Ashes urn, cricket's holy grail, to remain in Australia after his team wrested it back from England in record time on Monday.