Source: Sky News
Security & Justice
Lebanon’s Probe into Israeli Raid Expected to Take Days as Security Officials Weigh Theories
Lebanese authorities are ramping up investigations into an Israeli commando raid last week in the northern coastal city of Batroun, during which Imad Amhaz, a Hezbollah official, was snatched.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Watch: Israeli Army Blows Up Village Near the Border
The Israeli army is still blowing up entire villages or neighborhoods, especially those near the border.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Opinion
The Emptying of Baalbek Is a Moment to Take Stock
“Large numbers of people continue to flee their homes every day, as Israel’s military operations in Lebanon have been going on unabated.” These disturbing words could be from almost any news report about Israel’s invasion of its northern neighbour over the past month. However, they can be found in a report by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre issued on July 27, 2006.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
A Future Without Hezbollah
At the end of September, when Israel’s campaign to destroy Hezbollah was reaching its height, I met one of the group’s supporters in a seaside café in western Beirut. He was a middle-aged man with a thin white beard and the spent look of someone who had not slept for days. He was an academic of sorts, not a fighter, but his ties to Hezbollah were deep and long-standing.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Sports
Tottenham Forward Son Heung-min Crowned Asia’s International Player of the Year
Tottenham forward Son Heung-min was crowned as Asia’s International Player of the Year for the fourth time by the Asian Football Confederation at its annual awards ceremony Tuesday.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Real Madrid Launch Investigation into Racist Insults After El Clasico Defeat
Real Madrid has launched an investigation into racist insults directed at players during Saturday’s 4-0 home loss to Barcelona in LaLiga, it said on Sunday.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Tuesday 18 July 2023 12:22:25
Princess Diana's Iconic 'Black Sheep' Sweater to Go Under the Hammer Within Weeks at Sotheby's Auctions
The late Princess Diana’s iconic “black sheep” sweater is set to go under the hammer within weeks and is expected to fetch as much as (AUD)$117,000.
The red knit from the label Warm & Wonderful, which features a lone black sheep among rows of white sheep, will headline Sotheby's Fashion Icons' online sale from August 31 to September 14.
Diana first wore the famed fashion item to watch Prince Charles play polo in June 1981 - just one month before they walked down the aisle.
After the then 20-year-old was photographed wearing the knit, the Warm & Wonderful label “blew up,” the New York Post reports, receiving “the ultimate kind of influencer coverage” in the 1980s.
The timeless fashion piece was rediscovered in an attic earlier this year by one of the founders of the brand, Reuters reports.
In 1981 the Princess of Wales’ private secretary Oliver Everett wrote to Warm & Wonderful co-founder Joanna Osborne asking if it could be repaired after the wrist became damaged.
A few months later she received a replacement and was snapped wearing it in 1983 to another polo match with the Sarah Ferguson and Prince Charles.
"If you’re Princess Diana, certainly you have access to lots of pieces of apparel you could choose to wear," Sotheby's global head of fashion, Cynthia Houlton told the publication.
The late Princess Diana’s iconic “black sheep” sweater is set to go under the hammer within weeks and is expected to fetch as much as (AUD)$117,000.
The red knit from the label Warm & Wonderful, which features a lone black sheep among rows of white sheep, will headline Sotheby's Fashion Icons' online sale from August 31 to September 14.
Diana first wore the famed fashion item to watch Prince Charles play polo in June 1981 - just one month before they walked down the aisle.
After the then 20-year-old was photographed wearing the knit, the Warm & Wonderful label “blew up,” the New York Post reports, receiving “the ultimate kind of influencer coverage” in the 1980s.
The timeless fashion piece was rediscovered in an attic earlier this year by one of the founders of the brand, Reuters reports.
In 1981 the Princess of Wales’ private secretary Oliver Everett wrote to Warm & Wonderful co-founder Joanna Osborne asking if it could be repaired after the wrist became damaged.
A few months later she received a replacement and was snapped wearing it in 1983 to another polo match with the Sarah Ferguson and Prince Charles.
"If you’re Princess Diana, certainly you have access to lots of pieces of apparel you could choose to wear," Sotheby's global head of fashion, Cynthia Houlton told the publication.
"And the fact that she wanted a replacement and then again two years later wore ... the replacement sweater, I think speaks really volumes from her how much this sweater meant to her.”
In January a dress owned by the late Princess sold at auction for more than (AUD)$880,00, five times its pre-auction estimate.
The strapless silk and velvet evening gown last sold for just over (AUD)$35,000 in 1997 before her tragic death when she donated 79 dresses to a charity auction.
Collectively, the sales raised (AUD)$4.77 million for AIDS and cancer organisations.
