From the Sidney Morning Herald, special thx to Phill for the tip:

Having struggled to make a buck in the cut-throat Australian market, Conde Nast finally called it a day on Monday. From next month its prestigious local titles, which include Vogue, GQ and Conde Nast Traveller, will be published by IPMG's burgeoning lifestyle division, fpcLiving.
The licensing agreement caught the industry unawares. Although it is widely estimated Conde Nast has been losing at least $5 million a year down under, the normally reliable publishing grapevine had heard barely a whisper that its Australian titles were up for grabs.
At first blush the haute couture international milieu of Vogue is a world away from the humble Randwick butcher shop from which the Hannan empire emerged late last century. The Hannans moved into publishing with the Randwick Coogee Weekly in 1932, expanding into printing in the 1970s.
Local players say the market is just too small for many international publishers to justify maintaining a presence here. "Producing a magazine costs pretty much the same no matter where you are in the world," PacPubs general manager of publishing Angela Brooks says. "But to get the same returns in Australia as the UK, you have to sell three to four times as many copies."
Even though Vogue boasts healthy circulation and advertising revenue, Conde Nast never managed to get its Australian costs under control. By sharing overheads across IPMG's magazine division, Michael Hannan is adamant he'll make money publishing the Conde Nast titles.
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A ridiculous mix of high politics and low culture is splashed today in French major papers: the Miss France comitee has decided to boycott the Miss World contest, to be held on November 30 in Nigeria. Sylvie Tellier, Miss France 2002, wants to protest against the death penalty sentence pronounced in Nigeria against Amina Lawal, a 30-years old nigerian woman condemned for adultery.
It seems to me it is the right of Sylvie Tellier not to participate on ideological grounds, however thin it might be. After all, if the Miss World contest was to be held in Dallas, nobody would have boycott it, although the death penalty is as much popular in Texas than in Northern Nigeria.
But here comes Antoine de Villejoie, président of the "Miss France-Miss Europe-Miss Univers" comitee, and he wants to sue. He believes it is his own right to decide on such high-level matters, and he wants to overthrow Sylvie Tellier. He wants a new Miss France contest on the first week of October, and I say, right, the more the merrier.