January 26, 2025 – आवारा मुसाफिर

Louvre Museum adds haute couture to high antiquity

January 26, 202555 Views

World's most-visited museum, for first time, to display gowns and accessories from fashion houses The Louvre, the world's most-visited museum, is for first time displaying haute couture gowns and accessories from fashion houses, including Chanel, Saint Laurent and Dior, next to decorative arts from Ancient Greece to France’s Second Empire. "Paris is the capital of fashion – there is a very strong relationship between the fashion houses and Paris, and the Louvre is in the heart of Paris," Olivier Gabet, director of the museum’s decorative arts department, told Reuters on Friday at the opening of the couture exhibition. A dress designed by John Galliano for fashion house Christian Dior from the Haute Couture F/W 2006-2007 collection A dress designed Thierry Mugler for fashion h...

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World’s biggest iceberg heading toward penguin-packed island off Antarctica

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January 26, 202564 Views

Wall of ice the size of Rhode Island could slam into South Georgia Island The world’s biggest iceberg — a wall of ice the size of Rhode Island — is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica that’s home to millions of penguins and seals. The trillion-ton slab of ice — called a megaberg — could slam into South Georgia Island and get stuck or be guided around it by currents. If it gets stuck it could make it hard for penguin parents to feed their babies and some young could even starve. Overall, however, researchers aren’t too worried about major harm from the iceberg, named A23a. What’s happening is more spectacular than dangerous, scientists said. It’s also a natural process happening more frequently because of human-caused climate change, said British Antarctic Surve...

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Meandering in Mala Strana and sampling microbrews in Prague

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January 26, 202561 Views

I've lived in Prague all my life, so I am a true Pražák. I grew up in a 16th century house in the medieval quarter of Mala Strana, where palaces and townhouses slope down from Prague Castle toward the Vltava River. As a child, I played in the orchards and chestnut gardens of Petrin Hill, dawdled up the cobblestoned streets to my first school just under the Castle, and sipped the head off beer I fetched in a ceramic jug for my father in one of many dingy pubs in the area. I discovered a taste for public affairs and news during the watershed 1989 Velvet Revolution that ended communist rule and I was hired by Reuters as a junior reporter in 1995. I have since covered the Czech Republic's path from post-communist reforms to NATO and the EU. As chief correspondent for the Czech Republic ...

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WTF! Hottest travel trends shaping the next 5 years

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January 26, 202558 Views

KAYAK launches What the Future Travel Trend Report Rise in City Jumping, spiritual sidequests and feedbooking among top travel predictions for travel by 2030 Out with single-stop journeys, in with city jumping adventures. Bid farewell to self-care trips and welcome journeys of self-discovery and cosmetic-cations. Loyalty programs take a back seat as price-conscious travelers seek better deals. KAYAK, the world's leading travel search engine, has rolled out its WTF - What the Future - report, giving travelers a first look at the hottest travel trends shaping the next 5 years. Diving into survey insights from over 9,000 individuals spanning 9 countries, exclusive interviews with KAYAK executives, and an in-depth analysis of KAYAK's billions of searches, KAYAK teamed up with Th...