Venetians fight to save historical, ‘haunted’ island from luxury developers
Poveglia, a deserted 7-hectare rock believed to be the burial place of plague victims, to be leased to help pay Italy’s debts
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Makeup mogul Bobbi Brown to take over Yahoo’s beauty section
Founder of Bobbi Brown cosmetics will keep her role at makeup company while fulfilling new role as section editor-in-chief
French historians battle to save face of La Samaritaine
Opponents complain that new glass facade planned as part of redevelopment of Paris landmark will look like a shower curtain
‘This is not a harem’: the sheikh and his 60 attractive young personal shoppers
A wealthy Dubai sheikh is scouring Venice for a small army of female assistants to help him spend his cash
From bomb sites to Bulgari: V&A falls under the spell of Italian glamour
A new exhibition charts how postwar Italy transformed the world’s perceptions of it, using its greatest export: style
Golf isn’t the only gender offender
The R&A’s ban on female members may at last look doomed, but sport is still riddled with inequality of many kinds