One day in the life of a fashion agent

A day in the life of model agent Wang Bing reveals the hard work behind a beautiful industry.

The highs and lows of life as China's top foreign model

No one wanted Anina Trepte to come to China. The agents and designers she was working for in Paris told her it would ruin her career.

China Fashion Week: Creations by Graduates

A model presents a creation by graduates of the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology during China Fashion Week in Beijing November 9, 2009.

Rihanna joins Michelle Obama as "Women of Year"

Rihanna joined U.S. first lady Michelle Obama, British fashion designer Stella McCartney and nine others on Monday to be honored as "Women of the Year" after the R&B singer took a public stand on domestic violence.

Bounce back in style at Paris divorce fair

Sylvie Razafindrakoto, whose divorce was finalized three weeks ago, came looking for tips on coping with difficult teenagers as a newly single mother.

How to do less at work and get away with it

Never mind the recession. Workers can still find ways to do less and get away with it, says the author of a tongue-in-cheek look at the workplace, "How to Relax Without Getting the Axe."

Obama reads prize-winning Life of Pi to daughter

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama may be in for a nasty surprise when he reaches the final pages of the best-selling book Life of Pi, which he said on Monday he was reading with his 11-year-old daughter Malia.

In an interview with Reuters, Obama called it a "wonderful book" that was enthralling his daughter.

"There are whole chapters that really have to do with Hinduism, Christianity. There is a lot of philosophical stuff in there, but for some reason she (Malia) is hanging in there," he said.

The prize-winning book by Yann Martel centers on the journey of Pi Patel, who is cast adrift in a lifeboat with a tiger, a hyena, a zebra and an orangutan after a ship carrying him and his family from India to Canada sinks.

There is a battle for survival and eventually it is just Pi and the tiger left in the small boat.

But the fantasy adventure is revealed to possibly have been a fabrication by the narrator in the last pages of the book, with the real story emerging of a horrific tale of cannibalism and murder.