By Mariko OiBusiness reporter
Getty ImagesThe maker of Pyrex glassware and Instant Pot multicookers has filed for bankruptcy protection, with as much as $1bn (£790m) in liabilities.
Instant Brands blames high interest rates and weak demand for its problems.
The company, which has more than 2,400 workers, plans to keep operating while it shakes up the business.
It comes after another iconic kitchenware brand, Tupperware, warned in April that it could go bust unless it could quickly raise new financing. Read More...
By Pavel AksenovBBC Russian, Perm
Getty ImagesHundreds of people, many of them students, gathered outside the university on TuesdayThere is deep shock and a day of mourning in Perm, after a gunman killed six people and wounded 24 others at the local university.
The attacker was a first-year student, named locally as Timur Bekmansurov, 18, and most of his victims were fellow students. At the university they instinctively knew how to act. Read More...
Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Lopez and her husband Ben Affleck led the A-list celebrities attending a Celebration Of Life for Miami millionaire J.R. Ridinger at Faena Forum in Miami, Florida on Saturday evening.
The 63-year-old socialite – who famously co-founded Market America, a multimillion dollar marketing company, with his wife Loren – died of a pulmonary embolism aboard his yacht off the coast of Croatia in early September.
Kim, 41, looked beautiful in a semi-sheer black Balenciaga gown with her blonde hair tied back in a sleek bun. Read More...