February 20, 2009 Friday
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NEW YORK - WHILE a few designers let the dour economic mood creep into their collections, New York's Fashion Week, which wraps up on Friday, rallied in style against the recession with lots of gold, glamour and dazzle.

Decked out in thigh-high boots, vertigo-inducing stilettos and elbow-length snakeskin gloves, backs naked and shoulders draped in silver fox, models showing the autumn-winter 2009-2010 creations looked far from hurried businesswomen.

 
What's on: Sat's picks

Life! events listings for Saturday.

Books vie for oddest title prize

LONDON - BOOKS about baboons, colons and a French dairy product are among the finalists announced on Friday for the Diagram Prize for year's oddest book title.

A beaten Rihanna

LOS ANGELES - A PHOTO that purportedly shows singer Rihanna's face with bruises, scratches and swelling from an attack allegedly at the hands of boyfriend-singer Chris Brown was posted on Thursday night by the celebrity website TMZ.

The image shows welts on the woman's forehead above each of her eyebrows, marks on her cheek and around her lips and general swelling. TMZ did not say how it obtained the photo, when it was taken or by whom.

   
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