Zebra Mats has recently launched a new division called Zebra Tournament Systems (ZTS). Similar to an event planning service only focused on the martial arts industry, ZTS provides the equipment, know-how, and training to help its dealers deliver expert competition services to martial arts clubs, academies, and tournament organizers. ZTS is looking for motivated dealers [...]

The sharp black suits, upswept chignons and click-clack of high heels could have been the opening steps of an Yves Saint Laurent fashion show. But instead of glossy red lips, there were red-rimmed eyes as the Parisian worlds of fashion, art and politics turned out to say farewell to the towering creative figure of 20th-century [...]

Everyone wins from this arrangement, say its supporters. Homeowners — some victims of deceptive lending practices — stay in their houses. Neighborhoods don’t suffer the potential blight of numerous foreclosures. Housing prices don’t go into a free fall, depressed by an avalanche of foreclosures. Although lenders take a loss, the losses are [...]

Mark Dollard, co-owner, manager and chef for the Brick %26amp; Fire Pizza and Wine Co. and who last month compared the scene to a “demilitarized zone,” also was anxiously awaiting the barricades coming down. Opening the street to car traffic — and making it more appealing to pedestrians with the [...]

CANBERRA (Reuters) - A British animal protection group is
using the face of former Beatle Paul McCartney in an
international campaign against a planned cull of hundreds of
kangaroos on an Australian military base.
As demonstrators on Wednesday promised human shields to
protect the animals, McCartney appeared on a website set up by
the British animal welfare group Viva! [...]

When I began blogging as Petite Anglaise in July 2004, I’d been calling Paris home for nine years and couldn’t imagine living anywhere else. I set out to write a ‘Brit’s eye view’ of life in the City of Light and, even though [...]