Interfaith dialogue has become an important exercise in finding the right words to overcome both extreme violence and ordinary misunderstanding. True progress, however, is best measured in deeds. The inauguration last week of Qatar’s first Christian church — a small Catholic chapel bearing neither bells nor visible crosses — has been hailed as a welcome step forward in relations between Catholicism and Islam. But an even more dramatic development is under discussion just across the border: The Vatican has confirmed that it is negotiating for permission to build the first church in Saudi Arabia.

In the penthouse of a Rockefeller Center tower, a new social club is betting that executives will pay $400 a month for access to its lounges and its elite network of CEOs and directors. Club 75 , which opened in October 2018, is operated and managed by Convene, the first venture of its kind for the flexible working company. The club was designed in partnership with the building's landlord, RXR Realty.

Full Name: Alexis Alejandro Sánchez Sánchez Profession: Footballer Biography: Alexis Sánchez, known also simply as Alexis, is a Chilean football player who is a forward for the Chile national team as well as for the Ligue 1 club Marseille. Since the beginning of his career he was known as "El Niño Maravilla" (The Wonder Child), and he is regarded by many as the best ever Chilean player. After a highly successfully football career within Chile, in 2011 he was signed to Barcelona in a transfer deal worth €37.

Not every bride has a royal wedding. And not every woman wears a crown on her big day. But while Meghan Markle may be just a commoner like the rest of us right now, royal tradition suggests that she will wear a sparkling diamond tiara for her May 19 marriage to Prince Harry at Windsor Castle. The question, then: which tiara will she choose to top off her wedding look? The royal family has quite a collection of diadems at their disposal, many delicate pieces dating back decades — if not a century or more — and carrying the weight of tradition in their cold, hard, priceless diamond hearts.

Song Title: Organise Genre: Amapiano Date of Release: November 29th, 2022 ADVERTISEMENT Video Director: TG Omori Length: 2 minutes 14 seconds Features: NONE Label: YBNL/EMPIRE ADVERTISEMENT Details/Takeaway: Asake has spared no expenses for his music videos this year and for his 7th collaboration with ace director TG Omori, he delivers a colorful video with multiple casts and exquisite settings. The video portrays Asake in his street don fashionista element while asserting his authority over those who are too smart for their own good.

You could say I’m a secondhand addict. I’ve been buying hard-to-find pre-loved items on eBay since I was in college, and then I moved on to Poshmark when that arrived on the scene. I regularly send clean-out kits to ThredUp and use the money to shop for beloved items for my wardrobe every season. I even added secondhand shops like Amarcord Vintage and What Goes Around Comes Around when I was writing my book, The Encyclopedia of New York Fashion.

Basics like white tees are the very building blocks of a wardrobe, but it can be astonishingly difficult to find one that does exactly what you want it to. There are just so many variables: You find one that’s beautifully soft and perfectly fitted, but oh look, instead of sleeves, someone appears to have added a pair of pteranodon wings. Hey, this one’s just the right length, the sleeves cuff nicely, and—nope, it’s so thin, I’d be more covered up if I was wearing sheer lingerie.

THE HOUSE BY THE MEDLAR TREE (247 pp.) — Giovanni Verga — Grove Press ($3.50). “Giovanni Verga, the Sicilian novelist and playwright, is surely the greatest writer of Italian fiction after Manzoni,” said D. H. Lawrence. Between the two,’born half a century apart, runs the great divide of 19th century European literature, on the one side romanticism, on the other realism. If Manzoni is Italy’s Hugo, Verga is its Flaubert, and its Zola too.

THE ADVENTURERS by Harold Robbins, 781 pages, Trident. $5.95. While Harold Robbins (The Carpetbaggers) was writing The Adventurers, Leon Shimkin, his publisher, took a peek at a half-finished page and asked what happened next. “I don’t know,” replied Robbins. “The damned typewriter broke. I’m waiting for a guy to fix it.” Fixing the typewriter was Robbins’ second mistake; the first was writing the book. The Adventurers’ international-jet-set subjects would confound a Zola.

The small Southeast Asian nation of Brunei has for several years been home to one of the world’s most swoon-worthy royals and one of Asia’s “most eligible bachelors”—though Prince Abdul Mateen, who is still regularly described as “hot,” “sexy,” and variations thereof, has now given up the latter title. The 32-year-old trained helicopter pilot and major in the Royal Brunei Air Force—known for winning sports medals in polo, hanging out with tigers, and amassing 2.