Tapping into some romance

“Welcome to Butlers Cafe, princess,” says a Western man in a trim suit as he places a sparkling tiara on a woman’s head.

Tokyo’s Butlers Cafe is tapping into the popular fantasy that they will grow up to meet their Prince Charming, reports AFP from Tokyo.

Just stepping over the threshold, Japanese woman can forget for a few hours that they are in Shibuya, one of the capital’s most crowded areas, and enter a world where a handsome man rushes to the tinkle of her bell, goes down one knee and asks, “Yes, my princess?”

A dress code for mannequins

Mannequins will wear only decent clothing under a new dress code which is being enforced by the UAE emirate of Sharjah, reports PTI from Dubai.

The Sharjah municipality has urged shopkeepers to abide by a ban that prohibits the display of mannequins with facial features which means they will be headless, said a senior official. A circular sent to all shops also stated they are forbidden to wear underwear,  said the Gulf News said in a report on Wednesday.

Churchill’s letters to dentist on sale

Two letters written by Britain’s wartime prime minister Sir Winston Churchill to his dentist are to go on sale next month, reports PTI from London.

Churchill penned the two letters to Sir Wilfred Fish, one of Britain’s most outstanding dentists who made his false teeth, informing him that he had been nominated for a knighthood.

The letters, to go on sale at Bonhams in London on March 18, were written in 1952 and 1954, British newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported on Wednesday.

Too hot for Pakistanis?

Bollywood flick Welcome has run into trouble in Pakistan because of some allegedly “obscene” scenes featuring Mallika Sherawat, reports PTI from Islamabad.

The film’s release on this side of the border came days after a Pakistan Senate standing committee on culture recommended to the government that the exhibition of Indian films should be allowed under a proper censorship policy and the ban imposed in 1965 should be lifted.