In the first walk-out to hit the high-fashion empire in its 102-year history, scores of Gucci employees have gone on strike in protest against plans to relocate a huge part of its design studio team from Rome to Milan.

David Dastmalchian has pitched himself to play the villain in the next James Bond movie.

The US Department of Health and Human Services has suspended research studies involving human subjects at a psychiatric institute affiliated with Columbia University after the suicide of a research participant, according to research documents.