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With New York Fashion Week starting on August 7, we take an exciting look back on the most influential designs from last season’s catwalk shows.

Friends of Victoria Beckham have said that she is sick with nerves about this week's New York Fashion Week.

UFO's have been trending for quite a while and have been increasingly spotted throughout the world in the last few years, with some saying a 65 per cent rise in UFO spotting in the last two years.

Microsoft has issued a statement denying claims suggesting devices running its Windows 7 mobile operating system are illegally collecting users' location data.

Substantial changes have been made to designer’s schedules at both New York fashion week and London Fashion Week due to Hurricane Irene.

The Israeli government is finding itself in an increasingly difficult position after, in addition to being faced with internal and external protests, Turkey has announced its intention to expel the Israeli ambassador and to suspend all remaining military agreements with Israel after details emerged of a United Nations report into last year's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla.

The 68th Venice Film Festival saw both Madonna and Kate Winslet dazzle on the red carpet to promote their individual films.

A British woman's silicone breast implant exploded after she was shot in the chest during a paintball game. At first the woman thought she suffered a nasty bruise, but her doctor found otherwise.

The New York Observer has reported that the Church of Scientology has made a spoof magazine of the New Yorker and circulated it after a critical article about Scientology was published no less than six months ago

Order of play for Thursday 1 September, 2011. Play starts at 11.00 [16.00 BST]. Roger Federer will hope to register his 225th grand slam win at the U.S. Open on Thursday, as he edges closer to an elusive 17th title.

Following similar claims against Apple's iPhone, fresh allegations have arisen claiming that devices running Microsoft's Windows 7 mobile operating operating system are illegally collecting users' location data.

In the last few months European figureheads and leaders have been rocked by a series of scandals, which is set to damage their credibility and ability to criticise other regimes or insist on the necessities of values which they see as inherent to the history of their countries.

Three nuclear reactors in southern New Jersey have powered partway down due to debris from the aftermath of hurricane Irene that is now blocking essential cooling water intakes, the Daily Mail has revealed.

At a time when models are the crucial subject in the run up to New York Fashion Week, Diane Von Furstenberg is urging designers to confirm their models' ages before allowing them to walk in their shows.

Hacker collective Anonymous has released fresh details regarding its forthcoming Occupy Wall Street sit-in protest, claiming the operation will be a "political breakthrough moment."

Order of play for Wednesday 31 August, play starts at 11.00 [16.00 BST]. Andy Murray will finally open his U.S. Open campaign on Wednesday, with the Briton riding high after his win at the Cincinnati Masters.

"Savage Beauty," an exhibition created in tribute to the extravagant work of the late fashion designer Alexander McQueen, is coming to Britain, his homeland.

Thousands of British travellers could face day’s stranded at airports across New York City and other parts of the U.S. as airlines struggle to clear the backlog of flights following Hurricane Irene.

A car bomb was detonated at the UN offices in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, with reports suggesting as many as 16 people may be dead.

Despite often criticising and disregarding western leaders, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi apparently had a secret crush on the former Secretary of State under George Bush.

Kate Moss posed topless for Pirelli calendar in a photo-shoot which took place just weeks before she married rocker Jamie Hince this summer, reported the Daily Mail.

A theory that climate change could be a cause in triggering conflict, has been given a new boost after a new scientific study found an unmistakeable link between climate fluctuations and violence.

Hurricane Irene, the first hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic season, battered the Bahamas Wednesday night and is expected to gather power as it moves on the North Carolina coast and threatens the densely populated U.S. Northeast by the weekend.

After months of conflict, the rebels control most of Tripoli, but there is still no news of Moammar Gaddafi and his followers are still setting up resistance.

People on the East Coast of the Unites States are still in a state of shock after a magnitude-5.8 earthquake centred on the state of Virginia was felt in Washington and New York.

Tommy Hilfiger is opening its largest UK flagship store, in London's Knightsbridge on November 24.

The affair in which Nafissatou Diallo accuses Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former managing director of the International Monetary Fund,(IMF), of forcing her into oral sex and trying to rape her on May 14 in his New York hotel suite, has made the headlines for more than three months, but sources say the case is about to be dropped.

Kim Kardashian says 'I do' to Kris Humphries at a fairytale wedding.

IBM has revealed its next generation of computer chips, designed to emulate the human brain allowing computers to learn and make autonomous decisions.

North Korea announced Friday it is ready to resume talks with the U.S. on repatriating the remains of troops killed during the Korean War, after negotiations stalled in 2005 as tensions between the two countries mounted over Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.