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Even the cool affluent cannot be affirmed the smoothest summer anniversary it seems. Roman Abram-ovich's break in Italy has been soured by his adherent Dasha Zhukova's accommodation to bear a accessible boycott to the country's admired appearance industry.

While the Russian administrator was dining at Silvio Berlusconi's anniversary alcazar in Sardinia, the appearance industry was digesting Ms Zhukova's accommodation to bar Italian appearance from her high-profile bazaar in Moscow. The woman declared by The New York Times as art's new It girl, has just opened a Moscow abundance beneath the name Kova&T, but browsers will seek in arrogant for the top Italian names. "People sometimes wish to abrasion just a T-shirt and a brace of jeans rather than affairs the absolute Gucci collection," she remarked. And in an account with Mode, a German monthly, she added, "I anticipate I can do beneath of the 'Made in Italy'. People ... don't wish to be dressed from arch to toe."

According to La Repubblica, her comments in clandestine are beneath diplomatic. Friends account that she has written-off the Italian designers as passé, and overshadowed by the architecture talents of B ... Read more »

The Georgians are bombing South Ossetia; the Russians accept appear through the Roki adit to yield Tskhinvali; a additional foreground has been launched in the Kodori Gorge; the Russians accept active Gori, Poti and Senaki. It's been a anniversary area names and places that ahead didn't annals a bleep on the Western alertness accept al of a sudden become banderole news. Even a lot of of the journalists accoutrement the conflict, alien in from big bureaux beyond the world, had never heard of Tskhinvali in the morning if they flew in. By black they were pontificating about the acceptation of its abatement to the Russians on reside television.

The a lot of acute date of battle is over now in South Ossetia, but hopes for a adjourned adjustment abide actual abbreviate indeed. The absolute bad news, though, is that South Ossetia is not abandoned as a abeyant hot atom in the aloft Soviet Union. There are abounding spots that you may never accept heard of, dotted all about the area that was already allotment of the Red Empire.

As able-bodied as South Ossetia, there is Georgia's added breakaway accompaniment of Abkhazia. Tiny South Ossetia is extraordinary as a "real countr ... Read more »

Most of the patients in the labyrinthine Gudushauri Hospital on the eastern outskirts of Tbilisi are getting advised for injuries suffered during the Russian invasion, with added than 600 humans accepted in the accomplished few days.

But in one corridor, closed off by eight black-clad guards armed with Kalashnikov rifles, there were two patients actual altered from the rest.

Vyacheslav Markovich and Igor Zinov were not beat from the Russian attack, they were arch it. On 9 August, their planes were hit by anti-aircraft fire, banishment them to banish and parachute to the ground. Georgia claims to accept destroyed 15 planes during the conflict, killing two Russian pilots and capturing a added two during the aboriginal canicule of the conflict.

Georgia intends to accommodate with Russia to barter them for captured Georgian soldiers, the Interior Ministry said.

The Russian patients said they were getting advised well. Both are bed-bound and are captivated in abstracted rooms, although their guards accept kept them adapted on the advance of the war.

Flying Officer Zinov, 50, who suffered added austere injuries than his compatriot, banned to be inte ... Read more »

How connected shall we break in Gori? As connected as we wish to," the adolescent Russian catchbasin administrator replied with accidental arrogance. A mile down the alley Georgian troops endured the airless calefaction for a additional day, cat-and-mouse for the Kremlin's permission to access their own city.

There was no assurance bygone of the Russians constant by their acceding to abjure from the cardinal boondocks of Gori, and duke it over to Georgian forces. Instead, just as Condoleezza Rice was due to allege about Russian withdrawal, an armoured column, escorted by helicopter gunships, confused out of the city-limits to beforehand a added seven afar central the country, demography up positions abreast the apple of Igoeti.

The Russian attendance in Gori, as able-bodied as in Abkhazia and the anchorage of Poti, which is in Georgia "proper", is the absoluteness of Moscow's ability on the arena and the attribute of Georgia's civic humiliation. By demography Gori and abutting areas the Russians authority a cardinal position little added than an hour's catchbasin drive to the Georgian capital. They accept aswell bisected the country east to west, authoritative move ... Read more »

The little resort boondocks of Tavira, in Portugal's Algarve, is fed up with the hordes of blatant foreigners who affair all night on the beach, bubbler themselves absurd and again trashing sunshades, deckchairs and life-saving equipment.

So disgusted accept the bounded association become with the agitated antics of these invaders that this summer the town's mayor, Macario Correia, is calling on the government in Lisbon to change the law so as to ban binge-drinking in accessible places.

Those amenable for this bank commotion are not bashed Britons, nor are they added bloodless arctic Europeans. They are from Spain – Portugal's neighbour 12 afar up the road. Mr Correia said: "Thousands of adolescent Spaniards appear actuality at night, burdened with huge containers of vodka, whisky and beers, get bashed and go on the rampage, committing all sorts of acts of vandalism."

He added that adolescent Spanish revellers could cause about €200,000 (£160,000) of accident a year in Tavira. "When it gets algid at night, they go so far as to accomplish bonfires" from items of accessible acreage they accept destroyed on the beach, he said.

The botheration has develop ... Read more »

Broken toilets, missing commons in aboriginal class, partitions captivated calm with adhesive tape, uniforms with broad holes: these are just some of the delights apprehension cartage and aggregation on Alitalia, according to an insider's blog accounting by a abettor on the near-bankrupt Italian airline.

"We are advancing afar at the seams in every sense," the blogger wrote on 29 June. Having waited "nearly two months to accept a brace of trousers mended, which had been broken by a not-completely busted down spiral on a jump seat. Meanwhile Alitalia is aback in the annual with affairs of new cuts they wish to make... but I accept already fabricated my cuts."

Alitalia has been in acute banking agitation for years, and is now accident about €1m (£800,000) a day. It continues to alternate on, but as the "AviatorAZ" blog reveals, both agents assurance and standards are on a glace slope.

"At the absolute moment, the fridge break down," the blogger annal on 16 July. On 10 July he writes: "Once afresh we are abbreviate of cutlery... so I am harder at plan washing, re-washing and drying" the knives and forks available. But sometimes it is the aliment itself that is ... Read more »

In the year 1627, a British army and agile attempted, calamitously, to abduction the Ile de Ré, a straggly, lobster-shaped island in the Atlantic, off France. Until the 1950s, some of the earlier island women still wore their hair in a quichenotte or "kiss-me-not", an busy appearance originally adopted to acquaint 17th-century British soldiers that the women of Ré were not to be trifled with.

The quichenotte is no best to be apparent on the island's beautiful, austere beaches, nor on the quaysides of Saint-Martin-de- Ré, one of the a lot of arresting old harbours in Europe. The asperous sandstone barrio which already awash braiding or nets now advertise big-ticket shoes, swimsuits and jewellery.

The Ile de Ré has become one of the a lot of approved pieces of littoral absolute acreage in France, a cerebration man's riviera; a bling-free Saint- Tropez; a abode of retreat for the added cogitating affectionate of actors, pop singers, ex-prime ministers, chief civilian agents and business admiral as able-bodied as abounding accustomed French people.

This summer, a additional action of the Ile de Ré has torn out and will be fought out over the next brace of years. ... Read more »