An increase in oil prices, along with refinery slowdowns and higher demand, means U.S. retail prices for gasoline are on the rise, market analysts found. Motor club AAA reports a national average retail price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline Tuesday at $2.11, unchanged from the previous day, but ... Read More »
Taliban attackers in Afghanistan staged an assault on a government security agency in the capital, Kabul, on Tuesday morning, killing at least 28 people and wounding more than 320. The assault, which include at least two attackers and a car rigged with explosives, came a week after the Taliban announced ... Read More »
When President Barack Obama arrives in the Saudi capital on Wednesday, he’ll face an increasingly assertive leadership still heavily dependent on U.S. weapons and military might that nonetheless has little trust in him and essentially believes it’s been thrown a curveball. The president is expected to push Saudi Arabia, the ... Read More »
A rug collection Bleux Neighbourhood from Designer Rugs was inspired by living environments and organic forms – veins, rocks, minerals. Two Sydney – based designers Skye Molyneux and Eva Krane, recreated incredible patterns as colorful rugs. These soft forms and shapes create a basis on which can be placed beautiful ... Read More »
One of the strongest qualities of Italian design is creativity. This sofa is an example of a creative approach to the design and selection of textiles. Pixel sofa is dressed in patchwork covers in different colors- floral and graphic, combined with monochromatic textiles. The Pixel sofa is characterized by a series ... Read More »
A balanced energy portfolio suggests the U.S. economy won’t take any major hits from lingering weakness in the oil sector, a White House spokesman said. The U.S. Energy Information Administration said last week it expected domestic production to decline in most of the Lower 48 states and Alaska because of ... Read More »
The Syrian opposition coalition negotiating in Geneva said Tuesday there can be no solution in Syria with President Bashar Assad in power, and called for international monitors to observe a cessation of hostilities agreement that has all but collapsed. The head of the U.S. and Saudi-backed coalition, Riad Hijab, also ... Read More »
Young Irish-born, London-based designer Claire-Anne O’Brien is not the first person to apply knitting to product and furniture design. But what’s particular about her work, shown recently at Designersblock during the London Design Festival, is its compelling formal quality. O’Brien creates pieces that border on highly defined sculpture, but which ... Read More »
With the industry facing tightened purse strings, Norwegian energy company Statoil said it was examining plug-and-play concepts of field development. The company unveiled the so-called Cap-X subsea development concept at a Barents Sea energy conference in Hammerfest, Norway. Jez Averty, a vice president in charge of exploration strategies for Statoil, ... Read More »
Poland’s president on Tuesday led state ceremonies honoring the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, young Jews who took up arms to fight against the Nazi German occupiers during World War II rather than be transported to a death camp. President Andrzej Duda led the ceremonies on the 73th anniversary ... Read More »
The Austrian designers of Hans Sapperlot have given traditional loden fabric a modern makeover by making ‘invisible stitches’ in its material so it can be used as chairs, carpets, lamps and much more. The water resistant fabric comes from the coarse, oily wool of mountain sheep. Its bluish green texture ... Read More »
In a world that destroys itself every given second, architects and designers are obliged to plan their products’ impact on the environment. Interior design in present days would be suicidally arrogant without the conscious use of space, resources and natural material. One contemporary approach that fulfills the requirements for environmental ... Read More »
