2008 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show: Models strut their stuff!

Victoria’s Secret dropped off a multitude of models from a yacht and invaded Miami Beach for its annual fashion show last Saturday.

The show, which also served as a celebration of the reopening of the Fontainebleau resort (once a playground for the Rat Pack), featured an Usher performance, angel wings, plenty of lingerie and a £3 million bra made of black diamonds and rubies worn by Adriana Lima.

Financial collapse, you say?

It’s been a thrill year for girls and it’s not just super celeb Heidi Klum that’s gaining all of the attention. Marissa Miller led Maxim’s Hot 100 List.

Alessandra Ambrosio baffled the modelling world by returning to the runway a THREE months after giving birth!

Miranda Kerr made headlines 2 weeks ago with rumours that she’s engaged to Orlando Bloom.

Brazilian papers alleged that Karolina Kurkova has been doing fashion shows with “cellulite on her butt.”
Come on, give the girl a break! She’s only human, we are all allowed a doughnut once an a while!

And Adriana Lima made a noteworthy appearance on Ugly Betty. Bring her back, please!

(Photos: Style it online)

Jackie who? Michelle Obama: the first lady of fashion

(Virgin Media)

After her husband's success at the White House, it is now Michelle Obama’s time in the limelight.

The US first Lady-to-be, is on her way to be the Fashion Icon of America. Despite being criticized for a bad dressing sense at the election night, Mrs. Obama is thought to have a taste that will reach out to all women.

"Not since Jackie O have we had a first lady become a fashion icon," the New York Post quoted Avon vice president Carrie Feron as saying. "Michelle Obama will be one of history's most vibrant first ladies; she has a distinctive style that every American woman can aspire to," she added.

The first lady is all set to have her own Fashion Book, as Avon has signed former Mademoiselle editor Mandi Norwood to write a "Michelle Obama Style Guide," which according to Page Six, is due to release next spring.

Good on you Mrs Obama.. Show them your talent!

Check out some of her best looks from the political season at Mrs O which takes a regular look at what and who she is wearing!

Paris on Benji: "We're Just Taking a Break"

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With all the stories swirling around this week about Paris Hilton and Benji Madden splitting up, who better than the heiress herself to come clean about it all?

During an exclusive call in to Ryan Seacrest's US KIIS-FM radio program on Friday morning, Paris addressed the issue. But rather than calling it a breakup, she told Ryan that "right now we're just taking a break."

Paris also left open the possibility that she and Benji could get back together down the road.
"He is an incredible person," Paris said. "We will see what happens in the future. I am still in love with him."

As for why they decided to go their separate ways for now...

Paris tells Ryan: "He has been working non-stop with his brother on his new record. I am working and traveling…All these reports that say I dumped him aren't true. This is a decision we made together as adults."

Look Paris, you may think the world revolves around you but do we care?? I think not.. Break up, make up, do what ever you want!

We are really not interested!

Stars, fireworks and £13 million Dubai hotel opening..What global financial crisis?

(BBC News)

While we are all counting our pennies here in the UK, over in Dubai it’s a completely different story as tycoons and celebrities streamed there last night for the world’s most expensive private party.

Having spent £1 billion, the owners of the new Atlantis hotel, which they hope will become the symbol of excess in a region, splashed out £13.5 million on its opening.

(Celebrity Gossip)

In the lobby of the Atlantis about 2,000 guests sipped Dom Pérignon. Outside, A-list celebrities from Robert De Niro to Lindsay Lohan walked the red carpet. After the pop songstress Kylie Minogue performed on stage the sky lit up with the world’s largest fireworks display, seven times greater than this year’s Olympic Games opening ceremony in Beijing and extravagant enough to be seen from outer space.

The price tag for the party even embarrassed Sol Kerzner, the chairman and chief executive officer of Kerzner International, “If I had to do it all over again, I might do it recognising the fact that we’re living through a bit of a tough economic environment,” Mr Kerzner, a South African billionaire, told The Times.

What lives of the rich and famous!

The evidence of a global financial crisis is certainly being kept under wraps in Dubai!

'Newspaper prospects in free fall,’ says Guardian editor

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The ongoing crisis in the newspaper industry has led to many editors predicting that newspapers may be likely be free in the future.

According to the outgoing head of editorial development of the The Guardian, Neil McIntosh, newspapers will probably move to a free model to compete with the world's biggest repository of mostly-free information, the Internet.

Speaking at to students at the University of Westminster yesterday, McIntosh responded to queries about the prospect of the despondent messages associated with the future of newspapers.

"It is a grim time of journalism at the moment,” he said.

“Newspapers have been affected terribly as the UK market is one of the most competitive markets in the world.”

He highlighted the severe decline of both regional and national newspapers, claiming that The Independent in particular, has been “hit hard.”

Circulation of the relaunched Independent fell a further 16 per cent this year, according to official figures released by ABC. It was down 16.29 per cent to 201,019, lowest of any major national British daily newspaper.

McIntosh also stressed that print newspapers have to recognize that online plays a “major role” in how the public consume news today.

“Newspaper organizations shouldn’t insist that innovations need to be revolutions, “ he says.

“Sometimes, the change comes in small steps, so only time will tell if print newspapers will survive.”

Elderly people and the internet links

Here is a list of links that I found to create a news story for How old people are increasingly using the internet: 

Facts

Women and elderly top web usage stats (2007)

Sliver Surfers' prefer internet to DIY and Gardening (2007)

AXA Report (2007)

Blogs 

 Big John  (2008)

Times goes by.. what its really like to get older (2008)

The Daily Telegraph finally joins the 21st Century!

The Daily Telegraph? When I think of it, the image I get is an old Tory man rocking in his arm chair reading it, and smoking a cigar.

But that is not what I think of it now, though that is only the online website!

Surfing through it today enlightened me to a totally new Daily Telegraph, not the usual long winded words and writing, that is a no go area for me! Too much writing and info for a student to grasp!

So in a bid to gain a younger audience, this new online site has made changes that are subtle rather than radical: the design offers a better use of space and a colour mix that’s easy on the eye. There are also more images and video, helping to tell stories with multimedia as well as the written word.

I particularly love the new video based channel: Telegraph TV, where I can get my quick fix of news from fashion to politics, in over a minute, great just before im heading off to university.

Although the site has transformed, it still retains its old audience as the stories are all relatively similar to the newspaper but in a much more condensed way for students to understand aswell!

The only thing they don’t have is a comment box under the stories, so for people like me who like expressing opinion, its needs to work on creating that!

But overall, The Daily Telegraph online is a great new source for up to date news. Although its taken time, the editor has finally come to realise that a younger audience are what will make the site a success!