Yesterday, in an attempt to revive its fortunes, the fashion brand unveiled a new poster campaign to shock us back into its stores. But, asks Harriet Walker, will it work?

The fashion brand, which in its heyday set the agenda (at least for getting press attention) with posters including a photograph of a man dying of Aids and a priest and a nun hugging, hopes to recapture its successful past while bringing the brand into the digital age. The newly revealed campaign shots, titled Unhate, show world leaders kissing each other – images include the Pope and the Sheikh of the al-Azhar mosque, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy, and Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez. They are, of course, the result of digital manipulation.

Steve Nielsen has finally accepted an offer to join Team Lotus as their new sporting director after turning them down last year.

The number of patients in the UK being treated for Aids-related illnesses has trebled in a decade.

Alessandro Benetton, head of the family firm, is banking on Italy's giant retailer becoming as famous again as it was during the 1980s and lasting another 40 years.

United Colors of Benetton will this week announce the hiring of You Nguyen as its new chief merchandising officer and creative director, as part of its new strategy to revamp the brand.

It wasn't just the Marilyn image that Andy Warhol made so famous but the humble black biker jacket too. And Italian fashion group Benetton will be raising money for the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh when it launches its black-jacket exhibition this week.

Once again, Benetton is blazing the trail; the Italian retailer announced the world's first real-time "street-casting" last week, inviting people on the street to enter a gobal modelling competition to become one of the faces of the retailer for next year.

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Tesco, the world's number three retailer, said it plans to set up shop in India with a wholesale cash-and-carry business and will help Indian conglomerate Tata Group to grow its hypermarket business.

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Airports operator BAA today announced the sale of its World Duty Free business in a deal worth £546.6m.

The Italian clothing giant used to shock with its images – now it is spearheading a campaign to get Africans into work. Christena Appleyard reports from Dakar