The Augsburg branch of Germany's Federal Labor Office was forced to apologize to a 19-year-old woman who was inadvertently assigned to work at a local brothel without her knowledge.

Swedish ready-to-assemble furniture maker IKEA today finally acknowledged that a report claiming forced labor had been used in the manufacturing of its products in East Germany during the '70s and '80s was correct.

Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour is in Paris this week to attend the annual couture shows, naturally. But it seems she's also been doing a little lobbying on the side.