Bloomberg Alessandro Michele, the creative director who turned Gucci into a hit brand with younger generations, is leaving the Italian label. Kering SA, which owns the brand, announced Michele is stepping down in a statement. Gucci’s design office will oversee the label’s direction until a new creative organisation is announced, the company said. Michele, 49, helped turn the Florence, ...

Bloomberg Anwar Ibrahim, the almost man of Malaysian politics, finally clinched the country’s premiership after decades of waiting. Now, the reformist leader must make sure that he keeps the job. That won’t be easy in a nation that’s now had four prime ministers in four years. Former finance chief Anwar is likely to control an unstable majority and his administration ...

  Bloomberg The government in Warsaw asked Germany to send Patriot missiles to western Ukraine instead of Poland after another series of Russian attacks forced emergency blackouts amid below-zero temperatures. Germany made the offer to station surface-to-air Patriots in Poland less than a week after a missile strike killed two people in a village close to the border with Ukraine, ...