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    Edgardo Osorio built a fashion empire and is quick to defend it. Now he’s fighting a high ranking government official who’s had some shoe trouble of her own. Edgardo Osorio’s prized sandals sit on a glass shelf inside his Madison Avenue boutique under zebra-striped arches and golden chandeliers. The shoes have skinny heels, frills, and a tassel dangling from a dainty ankle strap that weaves up the leg. These days, they’re available in all kinds of colors and materials, but their signature suede style comes in a bold lipstick red. Osorio, the co-founder and creative director of fashion label Aquazzura, calls the sandal one of his most iconic creations. Coveted by celebrities and fashion bloggers alike, these $785 suede numbers became a true “It” shoe since gaining traction ...

    Rescuers toiled to wrest a young girl from the rubble of a partially collapsed school in Mexico City on Wednesday, offering a small glimmer of hope more than a day after a devastating earthquake killed at least 230 people . Television stations broadcast the nailbiting, hours-long rescue attempt live after crews at the school in the south of the city reported seeing the girl move her hand. They threaded a hose through debris to get her water. The girl's name was not made public, but her family waited in anguish nearby. Rescuers moved slowly, erecting makeshift wooden scaffolding to prevent rubble from crumbling further and seeking a path to the child through the unstable ruins. They implored bystanders to be quiet to better hear calls for help. It was part of the careful se...

    President Donald Trump touched on many hot-button subjects during his 41-minute address at the United Nations in New York on Tuesday. The U.S. president pontificated on the potential impending destruction of North Korea; railed against Iran as a rogue regime and described the Venezuelan government as a socialist dictatorship and corrupt regime that had inflicted terrible pain and suffering on its people. But it seems that none of these topics was particularly engaging for Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe. The 90-year-old African leader—the world’s oldest serving head of state—appeared to try and catch up on sleep during Trump’s address. While Trump was speaking about how the United States bears an unfair cost burden for maintaining the UN, a cutaway showed members of the...

    Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reiterated Bangladesh’s firm commitment to the UN secretary general’s noble initiative to eradicate sexual violence and abuse of peacekeepers, declaring a pledge of $100,000 token contribution to the victim support fund, reports BSS. As a major troop and police contributing country in the UN peacekeeping, we attach high importance to the issue of sexual exploitation and abuse. In this context, our approach is zero tolerance to the allegations of sexual violence by the peacekeepers, she said. The prime minister said this in a statement at a high-level meeting on ‘Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse’ at Trusteeship Council Chamber at the UN Headquarters here on Monday. Appreciating the UN secretary general’s initiatives for taking lea...

    The US First Lady was introducing her husband to the stage at the Joint Base Andrews in Maryland when the cringe worthy encounter took place. After Melania says her husband's name, he walks towards her and shakes her hand in a business like way before firmly pushing her off the stage as bemused service men and women look on. This is not the first time Melania has looked uncomfortable on stage with her husband. Back in February, footage of the First Lady accompanying her husband at a campaign rally in Florida appeared to show her shuddering after he touched her arm mid speech. President Trump used his speech at Joint Base Andrews on September 15 to condemn North Korea 's missile tests and continue his aggressive rhetoric against leader Kim Jong-un. He said: America and our ...

    Donald Trump’s eldest daughter whom many hoped and believed would be a moderating influence on the President - has claimed she has no power to change his mind on issues he feels strongly about. Ivanka Trump said she also declined to speak out publicly about issues on which she disagreed with her father, because it would be an act of disloyalty. To voice dissent publicly would mean I’m not part of the team, she said in a rare newspaper interview. That doesn’t mean everyone in the White House has homogeneous views we don’t, and I think that’s good and healthy - but that doesn’t mean we’re publicly undermining [each other] and this administration. Ms Trump, 35, and her husband, Jared Kushner, both played key roles during the former reality television star’s presidential campa...

    Singer Selena Gomez, 25, has revealed that she has undergone a kidney transplant. Gomez suffers from Lupus and the side effects of the auto-immune disease damaged her organs so much that she was told by doctors that she required a transplant, reports tmz.com. She found a donor in her beautiful friend Francia Raisa. Gomez took to Instagram to share the news with her fans. Alongside a photograph of her and Raisa holding hands while on hospital beds, Gomez wrote: ‘I’m very aware some of my fans had noticed I was laying low for part of the summer and questioning why I wasn’t promoting my new music, which I was extremely proud of. So, I found out I needed to get a kidney transplant due to my Lupus and was recovering. It was what I needed to do for my overall health. I honestly ...

    Authorities sent an aircraft carrier and other Navy ships to help with search and rescue operations in Florida on Monday as a flyover of the hurricane battered Keys yielded what the governor said were scenes of devastation. I just hope everyone survived, Gov. Rick Scott said. He said boats were cast ashore, water, sewers and electricity were knocked out, and I don't think I saw one trailer park where almost everything wasn't overturned. Authorities also struggled to clear the single highway connecting the string of islands to the mainland. The Keys felt Irma's full fury when the storm blew ashore as a Category 4 hurricane Sunday morning with 130 mph (209 kph) winds. How many people in the dangerously exposed, low-lying islands defied evacuation orders and stayed behind was...

    Hurricane Irma, now a Category 1 storm with top sustained winds of 75 mph, was battering Orlando early Monday morning after lashing southern Florida and moving across the center of the state. The storm’s center was headed north on track to hit the Florida Panhandle later today and move through Georgia. More than 4 million people were without power in Florida and many towns and cities imposed curfews. Miami-Date police said early Monday they arrested 28 people for burglary/looting. Fort Lauderale police also said they arrested several looters. Over 73,000 were powerless in Georgia. Irma struck south Florida with powerful wind, rain and flooding, swamping parts of Naples and Miami on opposite coasts before moving north over the center of the state. A storm surge of 10 feet w...

    The FBI said on Friday it is examining whether federal laws were violated by a Utah police detective who is shown on video assaulting and arresting a nurse after she refused to allow taking a blood sample from an unconscious patient. The July 26 incident involving Salt Lake City police Detective Jeff Payne is already being investigated by state authorities, who requested the help of the Federal Bureau of Investigations on Thursday. Sandra Yi Barker, a spokeswoman at the FBI's Salt Lake City field office, said agents already opened a review of the matter after videos of Payne forcefully arresting University of Utah Hospital nurse Alex Wubbels emerged last week. We are there to support and assist them as needed, but we also have our own review going on at the same time, Bark...