The release of the annual King’s King’s Birthday Honours List at the weekend saw a number of key names from the fashion, retail, design and beauty sectors being honoured. Read More
Womenswear brand Debute will unveil an “immersive” summer pop-up for just two days later this month, with a focus on its new SS26 collection, ‘Between Tides’. Read More
The group ended the financial year with its lowest level of debt in two decades, enabling it to increase investment by 14.6% this year to €650 million. Read More
Netflix documentary “America’s Next Top Model” scrutinises the US reality competition show and interviews host Tyra Banks, who is now accusing the show’s producers of defamation. Read More
Haiti has the highest level of perceived corruption of any country taking part in the World Cup, with Norway and New Zealand scoring lowest (something New Zealand might have to get used to!). These figures came from Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index. Politics
John Malkovich, NBA champion Toni Kukoč and the Croatian men’s soccer legend Luka Modrić walk into a bar. It’s not the start of a joke, that was the scene at the AKA Hotel in Alexandria, Va., Saturday evening. The Croatian National Tourist Board hosted a boozy reception for its country’s soccer team as it competes…
DALLAS — The Trump administration has elevated dozens of more complex World Cup visa decisions to senior leadership as officials try to balance FIFA commitments with national security concerns. In an interview Sunday, White House World Cup task force Executive Director Andrew Giuliani said many high-profile or complicated visa cases have ultimately reached his desk…
EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey — During the World Cup, FIFA officials, law enforcement agencies and transit planners across New York and New Jersey will be keeping an eye on things from a constellation of command centers and control rooms. The sites — spread from Miami to Trenton, New Jersey to Brooklyn — will house a…
DALLAS — Andrew Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s point person on the 2026 World Cup, said allowing Iran’s national team to enter the U.S. a day before its matches is an example of the administration being nice. “We want them to be able to compete,” Giuliani said in an interview Sunday in Dallas. “Even just coming…
Arriving in the U.S. from Belgium to cover the World Cup, one overarching controversy stood out from the Iran war, visas and commercial exploitation: Should POLITICO call the sport football or soccer? Our style guide entry — “The worldwide sport should be referred to as football in Europe and soccer in the U.S. In European…
