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The Valentino show took place in a bathroom.Or not a bathroom, exactly, but a big box in the courtyard of the Institut du Monde Arabe constructed to look like a large genderless public bathroom. One lined in toilet stalls and sinks (no urinals) and glowing luridly Valentino red. The models emerged from the toilet stalls in full, kooky Valentino-by-Alessandro-Michele glory: long lace dresses with cats’ faces on torso or waist and short bourgeois skirt suits over bike shorts; polka dot pants with floral neckties; balaclavas and handbags galore.Why? Well, according to Mr. Michele, it had to do with peeking into…

The air inside the community hall in Greenland’s capital was thick with warmth, a welcome contrast to the icy streets outside. As voters brushed snow from their coats, candidates from most of Greenland’s major parties sat down in the front of the room, ready for questions.Every seat was filled, two dozen international journalists lined the walls and a man in a black and gray sweater stepped forward to the mic.“Why is running a small business still so difficult?” he asked, his voice steady but impatient.Cameras clicked and so did the strap-on spikes that several journalists wore on their boots to…

In a sign that President Trump is following the Biden administration’s lead in reining in Google, the Justice Department on Friday reiterated its demand that a court break up the search giant.The request followed a landmark ruling last year by Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that found Google had illegally maintained a monopoly in online search by paying web browsers and smartphone manufacturers to feature its search engine. The judge is scheduled to hear arguments on proposed solutions from both the government and Google in April.Under the Biden administration last year,…

Beijing began imposing tariffs on Monday on many farm products from the United States, for which China is the largest overseas market. It is the latest escalation of a trade fight between the world’s two largest economies.The Chinese government announced the tariffs last week, shortly after President Trump raised tariffs on Chinese products for the second time since he took office in January. The Chinese tariffs will include a levy of 15 percent on U.S. products like chicken, wheat and corn, as well as 10 percent on products like soybeans, pork, beef and fruit.Beijing said that goods that had already…

Flo Fox, an indomitable photographer who was born blind in one eye and later lost her vision in the other from multiple sclerosis, which also eventually paralyzed her from the neck down, but who never stopped shooting what she called the “ironic reality” of New York’s streetscape, died on March 2 in her apartment in Manhattan. She was 79.Her son and only immediate survivor, Ron Ridinger, said the apparent cause was complications of pneumonia.Inspired at 13 by a candid photograph of a street scene taken by Robert Frank, she asked her mother for a camera but was told to wait…

In April 1970, Mr. McCartney announced that he was leaving the Beatles, initiating a famously nasty split. Still, Badfinger remained in their orbit. The band played on Mr. Harrison’s triple album “All Things Must Pass” (1970), for example, and Mr. Molland and Mr. Evans backed John Lennon on some tracks of his watershed 1971 album, “Imagine.”Badfinger eventually signed with Warner Bros., although their affairs had turned nearly as nasty as the Beatles’. The band became entangled by fierce battles over money with their manager, Stan Polley, who was embroiled in a messy legal tangle with Warners. At one point, the…

Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Shara, appealed on Sunday for calm and for unity as he moved to reassure the nation after days of clashes that a monitoring group said had killed hundreds of people.“We must preserve national unity and civil peace,” he said from a mosque in Damascus, according to video that circulated online. “We call on Syrians to be reassured because the country has the fundamentals for survival.”The violence erupted last week between fighters affiliated with Syria’s new government, headed by Mr. al-Shara, and those loyal to the ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad. Scores of civilians have been killed, according…

When the Minnesota boys’ high school state hockey tournament wraps up each year, John King retreats to his basement in White Bear Lake, Minn., so he can pore through footage of mullets, bleached mops and caterpillarlike mustaches.The resulting video montage — his “All Hockey Hair Team” — was released on Sunday, taking its annual place as a cultural touchstone in Minnesota and beyond. Without a whiff of irony, it pays tribute to the “lettuce,” “ramen” and all-around “flow” that players show off during their introductions, helping the tournament become a phenomenon on social media and beyond.A self-described “archaeologist of hockey…

The quantity and quality of the 2025 NHL trade deadline is compensated. After all, we don’t often play as long as Mikko Rantanen Saga, which spins a few twists deep in the center of Texas. The Panthers’ amazing acquisition of Brad Marchand is one of the greatest buzzers in deadline history.More in-depthNHL Trade Deadline: Grading each transaction completes this trade seasonNow that the dust has been resolved – fully knowing that the real winners and losers will not know until mid-June – let’s see who enjoyed the biggest improvement by the deadline, who seized the biggest opportunity, who fell in…

The gunfire began at dawn on Friday in the town of al-Haffa on Syria’s Mediterranean coast.At first, Wala, a 29-year-old resident of the town, leaped off her bed to the corner of the room in her first-floor apartment, flattening herself as the rat-a-tat of gunshots sounded outside her bedroom window.When the commotion grew louder, she said, she crept to the window and peeled back the curtain. Outside, dozens of people were fleeing down the road, many in their pajamas, as four men in forest green uniforms chased them. Then, the uniformed men opened fire. Within seconds, four of the fleeing…