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Women celebrate size inclusivity at alternative fashion week 9/8/2018, 3:44:01 AM NEW YORK (AP) — To woots and cheers from the crowd, women with bodies not often seen on fashion runways strutted with smiles on their faces wearing pieces from Loft's new plus lin ✔ NEW YORK (AP) To woots and cheers from the crowd, women with bodies not often seen on fashion runways strutted with smiles on their faces wearing pieces from Loft's new plus line, including five cast from hundreds who attended an alternative New York Fashion Week event, The Curvy Con ✔ Today, thin is how they learn to draw and create, she said 'Subtle' tribute to Kate Spade at New York Fashion Week 9/8/2018, 2:21:40 AM The designer parted ways with the brand decades ago but her influence still looms large. ✔ Photo: AP On the other side, it said: In loving memory, 1962-2018 ✔ From left: Actresses Elizabeth Olsen, Kate Bosworth and Priyanka Chopra at the Kate Spade show ✔ She told the

Australia's drought could produce a corker vintage 9/8/2018, 1:43:06 AM If Australia's big dry has a silver lining, it'll be worth cellaring, according to vintners, who are scrambling to irrigate vines while preparing for a smaller but sweeter vintage. ✔ No. 3 winemaker Pernod Ricard SA (PERP.PA) said it does not expect the drought to effect grape supply at this stage ✔ SCRAMBLE TO IRRIGATE Not all Australian vineyards are suffering the effects of the extended winter drought ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles BREAKING: Enormous earthquake STRIKES China 9/8/2018, 3:10:47 AM A MAGNITUDE 5.9 earthquake has rocked China's Yunnan provice. Torrential rain and gale-force winds to thrash Britain this weekend 9/8/2018, 2:21:13 AM As much as 40-50mm of rain could fall in parts of Wales by the end of Sunday ✔ Maximum temperatures will range from 11 to 19C in the north and 14 to 21C in the south ✔ The Met Office said: It will be a largely fine

Japan recognizes first Fukushima cleanup-related death 9/7/2018, 8:37:52 PM The Japanese government has recognized the first death associated with cleanup work at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after the tsunami disaster in March 2011, according to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. ✔ The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare recognized his cancer and death as related to his work at the plant ✔ A committee of experts determined his accumulated radiation level exceeded government standards ✔ CNN's Yoko Wakatsuki, Jessica Campisi and Saeed Ahmed contributed to this report Osaka to provide multilingual disaster information for foreigners 9/7/2018, 9:40:18 PM Osaka Gov Ichiro Matsui said Friday he wants to start providing useful information for foreign visitors in the event of a disaster. The plan to develop a multilingual email system was announced after many foreigners faced difficulties when a powerful typhoon this week closed Kansai International Ai