Swiss group Richemont has made a bid approach for the luxury clothes online retailer Net-a-Porter, British newspapers said Sunday. The deal would make the company worth up to 350 million pounds (530 million dollars, 385 million euros), The Sunday Times and The Sunday Telegraph reported. Geneva-based Richemont, which is home to leading brands including Cartier and Alfred Dunhill, already controls a 29 percent stake in Net-a-Porter.

Police said on Saturday that they had released a man suspected of being one of four armed robbers who stole nearly a quarter of a million euros in a raid on a Berlin poker tournament. "After checks, the strong suspicions against the man could not be verified," the police said in a statement. In an earlier statement police had said the unidentified man detained late Friday was "strongly suspected" of being one of four masked men who burst into the Grand Hyatt hotel in central Berlin last Saturday.

Berlin police said Saturday they were holding a man suspected of being one of four armed robbers who stole nearly a quarter of a million euros in a raid on a Berlin poker tournament. In statement police said the unidentified man detained late Friday was "strongly suspected" of being one of four masked men who burst into the plush Grand Hyatt hotel in central Berlin kast Saturday.

US President Barack Obama will give his Nobel Peace Prize award money to 10 charities, including groups working on Haiti relief and supporting military families, the White House said Thursday. Four months after the US leader received the prestigious honor in Oslo, the White House said he would split the 1.

California startup OnLive plans a June 17 launch for a service that streams videogames over the Internet, meaning players can avoid buying expensive consoles or packaged software. OnLive expects the US roll-out to feature blockbuster titles such as "Mass Effect 2" and "Assassin's Creed 2" which have been major hits with players using Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360 videogame consoles.

Yorkshire pudding is unlikely to be granted protected designation-of-origin status by the European Union despite a campaign by Yorkshire food producers, an EU official said Thursday. Citing a 18th century recipe, the Regional Food Group for Yorkshire and Humber says the wheat-flour, milk and egg dish -- a staple of Sunday roasts throughout Britain -- originated in the northern English region.

Tourism officials in the Indian resort state of Goa have begun distributing booklets to overseas visitors, asking them to refrain from nude sunbathing and wearing skimpy clothing in the streets. It comes after one Goa lawmaker accused Russian tourists of "corrupting the minds of locals" and leaving a "horrifying impression on schoolchildren" by wandering the streets and beaches in a state of undress.

Fashion TV was to be pulled off the air in India on Friday after falling foul of obscenity laws by broadcasting bare-breasted models during a show last year, officials said. The satellite channel has been suspended for nine days starting Friday and will be blocked from 7pm local time (1330 GMT), the Information and Broadcasting ministry said.

Naked figures of human beings have appeared on rooftops and ledges around New York -- not in a sudden rash of suicide threats, but a daring new art installation. The lifelike, full-sized figures created by British artist Antony Gormley are already catching the eyes of pedestrians in Manhattan. The third went up Wednesday and a total of 31 are destined to be installed atop landmarks including the Empire State Building, the Flatiron Building and the New York Life Building.

The US military plans to step up the use of video-games, hoping to curb casualties on the battlefield by training troops through simulations, a commander said Wednesday. The Pentagon this week approved a plan to direct an unspecified amount of funding into research on how to benefit from the game industry's advances, said General James Mattis, head of the US Joint Forces Command.