Sports apparel brand Adidas has apologised to Palestinian-American supermodel Bella Hadid following backlash over her removal from a recent advertising campaign that referenced the 1972 Olympics in Munich. The advertising campaign was intended to promote the relaunch of Adidas SL72 sneakers. The Adidas SL72 sneakers were originally designed for the Munich Games, but they drew … Read more
Thursday, June 6, marks the 80-year anniversary of D-Day, the day of the greatest military invasion in modern history. Codenamed “Operation Overlord,” D-Day (June 6, 1944) began at 6:30 am when an Allied force of 156,000 troops made up of primarily Americans, Britons, and Canadians landed on five beaches stretching 50 miles along a heavily … Read more
The novel ‘Kairos’ may be set in the final years of East Germany but author Jenny Erpenbeck says the fears of the present day are much like those of that period. Erpenbeck and Michael Hoffman, who translated the book to English, jointly won the International Booker Prize that was announced Tuesday. They spoke with TOI … Read more
An investigation led by German broadcaster RTL revealed that German billionaire and retail tycoon Karl-Erivan Haub, 64, could have been living with his 44-year-old mistress, Veronika Ermilova, in Moscow after he was declared missing and dead in 2018. The former owner of Tengelmann Group was training for a ski mountaineering race when he disappeared at … Read more
If you’ve ever doubted that we’ve reached the point where the miracle of machines has given humans access to places we shouldn’t be, then you’ve likely not yet visited Waimea Canyon State Park on Kauai. From the town of Waimea, a small outpost of 2,000 on the island’s west side, a 45-minute climb on paved roads in … Read more
Though it’s not very often that you hear about a positive “surprise turn of events” in the Bay Area’s post-pandemic restaurant scene, one classic outpost in the Mission District is slated to challenge the status quo and rise from the dead. Rosamunde Sausage Grill, a decades-old German sausage house in San Francisco, originally planned on … Read more
