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French luxury group, PPR has confirmed its acquisition of the Italian menswear brand, Brioni, popular for clothing the likes of Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin and also James Bond.

The National Gallery will showcase some of the most important artworks of Italian Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci, starting Nov.9, 2011.

Police arrested New York Public Library President Anthony Marx in Harlem Sunday for driving while intoxicated after he hit a parked sanitation truck in reverse, the New York Post reported.

A private investigator hired by Rupert Murdoch's News of the World carried out undercover surveillance of Prince William during the time when the newspaper was investigated for hacking his voicemail, reports claimed on Tuesday.

Police said Julio Cesar Marquez's death was a result of multiple gunshot wounds and blunt-force trauma. His body was found on the 10700 block of northeast Halsey Street.

History Channel follows up its Emmy-winning WWII in HD miniseries Tuesday night with the premiere of Vietnam in HD, a three-night, six-hour documentary in which real Vietnam War veterans -- complemented by voiceovers from actors including Armie Hammer, Blair Underwood, James Marsden and Edward Burns -- share their powerful, often painful, memories of Vietnam combat.

Putting animal rights over fashion and its own vibrant shopping scene, West Hollywood's leaders gave final approval on Tuesday to a first-in-the-nation ban on the sale of fur clothing within city limits.

The Supreme Court has chipped away at the length and severity of sentences imposed on juveniles.

Putting animal rights over fashion imperatives and its own vibrant shopping scene, leaders of the California city of West Hollywood have given final approval to a first-in-the-nation ban on the sale of fur clothing within its limits.

Penn State called off the Joe Paterno press conference scheduled for 12:30 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday amid a sexual abuse scandal.

A 6-foot alligator was found prowling outside of a church in Michigan.

Elizabeth Lightfoot's murder case has baffled Dallas police, after they found out the victim was alive when her car was set ablaze on Friday morning. Oak Farms Dairy is offering a $10,000 reward in connection with the death, the police department revealed on Tuesday.

Judge William Adams, who was caught on video beating his teenaged daughter Hillary Adams for downloading music, kept his job after the video attracted the attention of the state investigators, but a group of protestors in Texas are trying to change that.

It's virtually not possible that Paterno had never before heard the allegations. So when Paterno was approached iin 2002 by an assistant coach in alleging that he saw Sandusky, the former Penn State coach who still had access to the athletic department including workout and locker Anrooms, engaged in a sex act with a child, he should have done more than simply pass a report to the school's athletic director, Tim Curley.

The White House has issued a declaration in response to a petition signed by more than 5000 people, stating that the government has no evidence of extraterrestrial life existing outside earth.

Amanda Knox's relationship with Raffaele Sollecito is officially over, the Italian said in his first televised interview.

Versace for H&M is one of the most exciting fashion collaborations of the year. And Donatella Versace has planned just as exciting a launch party. The Italian designer is going all out for the launch of her collection with the Swedish high street brand.

Tour operators organising trips to Britain are seeing an average 90 percent downturn in bookings during the London 2012 Olympics, a survey by an industry group said, with sports fans failing to compensate for those wanting to avoid a packed city.

Mark Zuckerberg returned to Harvard officially for the first time Monday, winning a warm welcome from the university where he created Facebook and embarked on a well-chronicled meteoric ascent.

Michael Jackson's physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, found guilty of one charge of involuntary manslaughter, was placed on suicide watch at the Los Angeles County Jail within hours of being taken into custody, a jail source said.

On Tuesday night, astronomers and sky-watchers may get a rare glimpse of an asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier. The behemoth is expected to fly by at a distance closer than that between the Earth and the moon.

International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has joined a growing panoply of Western luminaries and celebrities such as Bill Gates and actress Emma Watson on China's most popular microblogging platform, Weibo -- and received a warm response.

Another earthquake of magnitude 4.7 hits Oklahoma near the town of Prague on Monday at 08:46:57 PM local time.

A former U.S. Army Ranger arrested during demonstrations in Oakland last week and later hospitalized is reluctant to become the face of protests there, his friends said on Monday.

Twenty years and still strong and fighting - Magic Johnson, who had publicly revealed his HIV diagnosis to a shocked world in 1991, celebrated his twenty years of beating the virus at Staples Center on Monday.

A Russian historian gruesomely decorated his home with 29 mummified female bodies he dug up from local graveyards and dressed as life-sized dolls, authorities said.

Deaths and health problems from floods, drought and other U.S. disasters related to climate change cost an estimated $14 billion over the last decade, researchers said on Monday.

A total of six climate change-related events in the US during the period 2000-2009 accounted for around $14 billion in lost lives and health costs; researchers mentioned in a report on Monday.

Nyamulagira Volcano, also known as Nyamuragira erupted to life, around 22 km from the city of Goma in eastern DR Congo, spewing massive volumes of lava and smoke.