A new year heralds new fashion trends, but deciphering the good from the bad, and 2008's new look from a 2007 has-been, is never an easy thing.
So Fashionising.com has done all the leg work for you. Browsing thousands of photos and studying hundreds of hours of catwalk footage, we've put together a list of 2008's biggest fashion trends and we've thrown in hair and beauty trends to boot. But of course, we won't be leaving it there. Throughout 2008 we'll be updating all our trend bibles to reflect trends which have emerged not from the catwalk, but from the street - they're always the most popular.
In a sharp turnaround, the Republican candidates has opened a 5-point lead on his Democratic rival and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll.
AFP - Georgia's South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions planned rallies Thursday to ask Russia for recognition as independent states, two weeks after Russian troops occupied both provinces.