Agence France-Presse

Recent Events

News & Analysis

agence france-presse and outfit - All News and Analysis

• Wimbledon and Serena greet leopard-skin queen

  - 2008-06-29

  LONDON AFP — Serena Williams is rarely upstaged in the fashion stakes on a tennis court but the former Wimbledon champion admits she has met her match in fellow American Bethanie Mattek, the leopard-skin queen. Williams has caught the eye at Wimbledon with the white trenchcoat she wears during...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, CAREER, outfit, Williams

• Beam me up, M'Lud: judges get 'Star Trek' outfits

  - 2008-05-13

  LONDON AFP — Britain's top judges are to get a new outfit, doing away with their traditional wigs and introducing colour-coded robes which one critic likened to costumes from the hit sci-fi series Star Trek. The new robes, to be worn by Appeal Court and High Court judges hearing...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Guardian, outfit

• Mutu not coming but Mancini staying at Roma

  - 2008-01-11

  ROME AFP — Roma received mixed news on Friday as Romania forward Adrian Mutu insisted he will not be joining the club but Brazilian winger Alessandro Mancini pledged his future to the Seria A outfit. Fiorentina's Mutu has been the subject of much transfer speculation involving Roma but he...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Construction, outfit, Romania

• London gets frisky at world's biggest erotica fair

  - 2007-11-23

  LONDON AFP — London whipped the "No sex please, we're British" attitude into submission Friday as leather and PVC-clad punters squeezed into the world's largest adult lifestyle fair. Erotica 2007, a three-day fest at the giant Kensington Olympia exhibition venue, is expecting to attract more than 80,000 sexually curious...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Games, INTERNET, London, Manufacturing, outfit, Portals

• Mifsud stings United

  - 2007-09-26

  MANCHESTER, England AFP — Maltese striker Michael Mifsud stunned Manchester United with two goals as Coventry clinched a 2-0 League Cup victory against the Premier League champions at Old Trafford on Wednesday. Mifsud, nicknamed the 'Mosquito', scored in each half as United's collection of youngsters and fringe players were...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Ferguson, outfit, team, United

• Pet Fashion Week offers style tips for pampered pooches

  - 2007-08-21

  NEW YORK AFP — For discriminating pets, it really was the cat's pajamas: New York's second annual Pet Fashion Week offered everything a pampered pooch could ever want, from jewel-encrusted leashes to doggy perfume. Among the canine clients at the event on Sunday was Chai, a short-haired white American...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, INTERNET, outfit, Strategy

• Cassano loaned out to Sampdoria by Real

  - 2007-08-14

  MADRID AFP — Real Madrid's troubled Italian international striker Antonio Cassano was sent on loan to Serie A outfit Sampdoria on Tuesday. The 25-year-old has not enjoyed a successful time at Real and had several run-ins with the authorities at the club since moving from AS Roma in January...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Italy, Madrid, outfit

• Millar and Zabriskie head for Slipstream

  - 2007-07-30

  PARIS AFP — Britain's David Millar and American David Zabriskie will join American team Slipstream next season, sporting director Jonathan Vaughters said on the cyclingnews website. American Christian Vandevelde, of CSC, will also join the team from 2008, revealed Vaughters who is aiming to have his outfit compete in...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Computer Sciences Corp., INTERNET, outfit, team

• Rogers to lead T-Mobile team at Tour de France

  - 2007-06-29

  BERLIN AFP — Triple world time-trial champion Michael Rogers of Australia will lead the T-Mobile team at this year's Tour de France, the German outfit said Friday. It's an inexperienced squad for the once dominant team, who used to count Jan Ullrich amongst their riders, with Briton Mark Cavendish,...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, France, outfit, T-Mobile, team

• Magnificent millinery for Ladies' Day at Ascot

  - 2007-06-21

  LONDON AFP — Royal Ascot, the showpiece event of the British flat-racing season, hosted its traditional Ladies' Day on Thursday, with the stands and enclosures packed with a sea of hats and designer outfits. Despite rain that threatened to dampen the turf at the Berkshire racecourse, west of London,...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, enclosure, London, outfit