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'Maldives what?': Saudi fashionistas attempt beach rebrand
'Maldives what?': Saudi fashionistas attempt beach rebrand
by  AFP

Saudi designer Tima Abid got her start at a time when fashion shows were taboo and tourism, apart from religious pilgrimages, was almost nonexistent in the Gulf kingdom. Taking in preparations for Abid's show, Saudi designer Alanoud Badr of Lady Fozaza compared the kingdom favourably to a more established island locale.

The French 'Erin Brockovich' vs Goodyear
The French 'Erin Brockovich' vs Goodyear
by  AFP

For a decade, French former childcare worker Sophie Rollet carried out her own, lonely investigation to make US auto equipment group Goodyear accountable for the death of her husband, Jean-Paul, in a collision linked to the company's tyres. Rollet's investigation led her to link the tyre's model, Goodyear Marathon LHS II, to many other accidents in France and Europe.

Iraq father begins legal action against BP over son's cancer death
Iraq father begins legal action against BP over son's cancer death
by  AFP

Hussein Julood is taking legal action against British energy giant BP after he lost his son to leukaemia, which he alleges was caused by gas flaring at Iraq's largest oil field. BP is one of the biggest foreign players in Iraq's oil sector, with a history of producing oil in the country dating back to the 1920s when it was still under British mandate.

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