HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — The Arashiyama Bamboo Forest, one of the most visited sites in Kyoto, Japan, was quiet enough to hear the bamboo creaking in the wind. The Ngong Ping 360 cable cars in Hong Kong, which hover over Lantau Island and take passengers to a famous Buddha statue, hung motionless and…
Here’s what you need to know: ImageSpraying disinfectant on Sunday at a market in Daegu, the southeastern city where many of South Korea’s coronavirus infections have been confirmed.Credit…Yonhap, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images South Korea’s leader urges an ‘all-out, concerted response.’ President Moon Jae-in on Sunday put South Korea on the highest possible alert…
Barbara Smith, a fashion model who created a business empire by catering to the tastes of aspiring black professionals with her restaurants, television shows, bedding and furniture collections and books on entertaining, died on Saturday at her home on Long Island. She was 70. The cause was early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, her family said. Ms. Smith…
Earlier this month, the hard-hit town of Caohe, near the center of the coronavirus outbreak in central China, received an unexpected gift: a large donation from a Taoist nunnery 550 miles away. Another Taoist temple, this one in Caohe itself, contributed tens of thousands of dollars worth of medical equipment to help those sickened by…
In an unexpected move, Prada named Raf Simons as co-creative director joining Miuccia Prada. The powerhouse duo will share “equal responsibilities for creative input and decision-making.” The decision was announced on Sunday at a surprise press conference held on the last day of Milan Fashion Week. Prada joined her family’s namesake label in 1978, premiered…
MILAN — The last days of Milan Fashion Week took place as cases of the coronavirus crept closer and news reports came that at least two people had died in nearby cities. Though there were temperature checks at the airport — a uniformed man with an electronic thermometer greeted people disembarking from London — apparently…
MILAN — In a move that could reshape the fashion world, Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli, the creative director and chief executive of the Prada Group, the thinking woman’s brand and one of the gravitational poles of the Italian industry, announced on Sunday that they were appointing the Belgian designer Raf Simons as co-creative director…
CODY, Wyo. — It’s surprising that a global celebrity who frequently self-identifies as the greatest artist living or dead has become an everyday presence in a tightly connected town of about 10,000 people. It’s more surprising just how much the town’s leaders want him to stay. There Kanye West is at the McDonald’s, the Best…
Here’s what you need to know: ImageMedical workers carried a patient infected with coronavirus to a hospital in Chuncheon, South Korea, on Saturday. The country has reported a sharp jump in cases, many linked to a secretive church.Credit…Yonhap, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The count: 28 countries, with a spike in South Korea. South…
Claudia Isabella Leon and Rebecca Marie Loftis were married Feb. 22 at Springdale Station in Austin, Texas. Holly Lorka, who was ordained through Rose Ministries, officiated. The couple met at Rice University in Houston, from which each graduated. Ms. Leon (left), 26, is a mechanical engineer in the additive manufacturing group at Baker Hughes, an…