NEW YORK — Designer Kate Spade, who committed suicide in New York this week, had been treated for depression and anxiety for five years, her husband said Wednesday.

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook on Wednesday announced its first original news shows for the social network, joining other online platforms producing video to compete with television.

NEW YORK — Indie rockers The National and Bon Iver on Wednesday unveiled the latest entrant into the streaming universe — a site for musicians to post their outtakes hassle-free.

NEW YORK — The story of Bob Marley, the Jamaican superstar who in his short life brought reggae into the global mainstream, is set to become a Hollywood biopic.

LOS ANGELES — Thirty years after the band Chicago hit number one with the ballad “Look Away,” a man who was just a teen back then is suing to say that he wrote the song.

THE Ayala museum, in conjunction with the Alfonso Ossorio: A Survey exhibition, presents a talk on the restoration of the artworks at the Saint Joseph the Worker Chapel with Liliane “Tats” Manahan on June 9, 3 p.m.

LONDON — Tom Cruise has jumped off buildings, slid off skyscrapers, and clung onto the outside of a plane during take-off in his roles as action movie hero.

THE TROPICAL climate of Thailand and the vibrance of its culture are reflected in its richly flavored cuisine. A certain over-the-top quality that is well-appreciated was tasted late last month in the new menu offerings by Thai restaurant Mango Tree in Bonifacio Global City.

FRANCE’S NATIONAL holiday, Bastille Day is celebrated every year on July 14, commemorating the storming of the Bastille, a medieval fortress and a symbol of absolutism in France on this day in 1789, an event which would spark the French Revolution and form France (and arguably, the rest of the world) into what it is today.

DRINKING COFFEE is part of our lives — this is how Paolo del Rosario, Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf (CBTL) vice-president for marketing and business development, put it. “You can’t live without coffee. It’s part of daily lives,” he told BusinessWorld.

TAIPEI — Ken Chan has come a long way since he started out wheeling a trolley in a dim sum restaurant, becoming the first chef in his adopted home of Taiwan to win three Michelin stars.

NEW YORK — Designer Kate Spade, one of the biggest names in American fashion known especially for her sleek handbags, was found dead Tuesday in her New York apartment. She was 55.