Spike TV’s Scream 2009 Los Angeles: Actress Megan Fox accepts the Best Sci-Fi Actress award during Spike TV’s Scream 2009 held at the Greek Theatre. afp

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Who said men don’t like dressing up?
From porcupine hats worn once-upon-a-time to bright silk socks and garters today, men it seems love dressing up. Featuring old Papua New Guinea necklaces of human teeth and ivory nose-rings as well as the extravagant designer suits paraded in poor Congo by today’s “sapeur” movement, a show opening last...

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Russian Fashion Week Moscow: A model displays a creation by Russian designer Slava Zaitsev during the Russian Fashion Week, on Sunday. afp

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Nazi camps created ‘bordellos’ to boost prisoner production
The Nazis forced women into prostitution in a system of concentration camp bordellos designed to boost productivity among fellow prisoners during Second World War, a new book shows. Adolf Hitler’s security chief Heinrich Himmler set up the bordellos and established a bonus system that camp prisoners...

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Half a century on, Asterix still holding out
After 50 years Asterix and his village of indomitable Gauls are still gamely holding out against the Romans, while in the meantime they have become a global publishing phenomenon. Despite their defiantly French character, the comic book adventures of the first century BC warrior have sold 325 million...

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