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Mexico City — [October 21, 2025] — Estée Lauder, the flagship brand of The Estée Lauder Companies, is proud to announce its official launch in the Amazon.com.mx Premium Beauty store. This launch expands access to Estée Lauder’s high-performance skin care, best-in-class makeup and iconic fragrances for customers across Mexico, combining prestige beauty with the ease and convenience of Amazon.

Building on the successful debuts in the Amazon Premium Beauty stores in the U.S. and Canada, the brand’s launch in Mexico marks a key milestone in expanding access to Estée Lauder’s hero products for Latin American consumers, bringing prestige beauty closer to them, whether in major cities or remote regions, through Amazon’s convenient and reliable shopping experience.

“We’re thrilled to partner with the Amazon.com.mx to bring our globally renowned products to new and existing consumers across Mexico, one of the fastest-growing prestige beauty markets in Latin America. Through the lens of ‘The Beauty of Performance,’ we’re excited to deliver our hero products and an elevated, high-touch experience grounded in our night science leadership, skin tone authority and longstanding fragrance expertise,” said Justin Boxford, Global Brand President, Estée Lauder.

Within the Estée Lauder brand storefront on Amazon.com.mx, customers in Mexico will be able to discover, learn about, and shop Estée Lauder’s best-in-class hero products, such as the award-winning, iconic Advanced Night Repair Serum and the #1 selling foundation, Double Wear Stay-In-Place. Customers can also find their other favorite brand franchises and products, including Revitalizing Supreme+, Re-Nutriv, and Futurist Hydra Rescue Moisturizing Foundation.

“The addition of Estée Lauder to our Premium Beauty store marks a transformative moment for beauty retail in Mexico. We’re proud to make these iconic products available to millions of customers nationwide, combining the trust and heritage of Estée Lauder with Amazon’s innovative shopping experience and reliable delivery network. This launch reflects our ongoing commitment to delighting Mexican consumers with broader access to premium beauty, whether they’re shopping from Mexico City or Merida, Monterrey or Oaxaca,” said Pedro Huerta, Amazon Mexico’s Country Manager.

When shopping Estée Lauder in the Amazon.com.mx Premium Beauty store, Prime members will enjoy fast, free delivery on every order.

Shop Estée Lauder now in the Amazon.com.mx Premium Beauty store at www.amazon.com.mx/esteelauder

ABOUT ESTÉE LAUDER

Estée Lauder is the flagship brand of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. Founded by Estée Lauder, one of the world’s first female entrepreneurs, the brand today continues her legacy of creating the most innovative, sophisticated, high-performance skin care and makeup products and iconic fragrances — all infused with a deep understanding of women’s needs and desires. Today Estée Lauder engages with women in over 150 countries and territories around the world and at a variety of touch points, in stores and online. And each of these relationships consistently reflects Estée’s powerful and authentic point of view. Follow @esteelaudermexico on Instagram, Facebook.

ABOUT THE ESTÉE LAUDER COMPANIES

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is one of the world’s leading manufacturers, marketers, and sellers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products, and is a steward of luxury and prestige brands globally. The company’s products are sold in approximately 150 countries and territories under brand names including: Estée Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Lab Series, Origins, M·A·C, La Mer, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Bumble and bumble, Darphin Paris, TOM FORD, Smashbox, AERIN Beauty, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, GLAMGLOW, KILIAN PARIS, Too Faced, Dr.Jart+, the DECIEM family of brands, including The Ordinary and NIOD, and BALMAIN Beauty.

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The collapse of two US companies could be a sign of wider problems in the financial system and “alarm bells” were ringing, the governor of the Bank of England has said.

Andrew Bailey told a House of Lords committee that it was important to take the failure of car parts supplier First Brands and subprime car lender Tricolor “very seriously” – and drew parallels with the 2008 financial crisis.

He said it was unclear whether these were one-off issues, or a case of “the canary in the coal mine”.

Mr Bailey also said the Bank of England was planning to run a “stress test” of private equity and credit firms.

The bankruptcies of First Brands and Tricolor have raised questions about the quality of deals in what is known as the private credit market – where companies arrange loans from non-bank lenders.

Mr Bailey said he did not want “to sound too foreboding at this point”, but that “there is a lot we don’t know about First Brands and Tricolour”.

“I think the big question… is: are these cases idiosyncratic, or are they what I call the canary in the coalmine?

“Are they telling us something more fundamental about the private finance and private assets sector?

“I think that’s still a very open question in the US. I think it’s a question we have to take very seriously.”

On the way loans were being made by private credit, Mr Bailey said there was starting to be “what used to be called sort of slicing and dicing and tranching of loan structures”.

“And, you know, if you’re involved before the financial crisis, the alarm bells start going off at that point.”

Reflecting on the tone of the conversation prior to the 2008 financial crisis, he said that back then there had been a belief that sub-prime mortgages were “too small to be systematic” but that this had been “the wrong call”.

Last week, Jamie Dimon, the boss of US banking giant JPMorgan Chase, warned the failure of the two US firms could be a sign of more to come.

“My antenna goes up when things like that happen,” he told analysts. “I probably shouldn’t say this, but when you see one cockroach, there are probably more.”

Also appearing before the House of Lords’ financial services regulation committee, Sarah Breeden, the Bank’s deputy governor for financial stability, said the Bank would be examining the private finance sector.

“We can see the vulnerabilities here,” she said. “We can see parallels with the global financial crisis.”

Pilots aboard a US commercial jet mistakenly thought someone was trying to invade the cockpit on Monday, leading the flight to return to the Omaha airport fewer than 40 minutes after departing for Los Angeles.

The misunderstanding on American Airlines Flight 6469 came about because the intercom that pilots and flight attendants use to speak to each other had been left on by accident, an American Airlines spokesperson said. The pilots heard some static sound over this intercom, and they mistakenly thought it meant someone was trying to break in.

According to video shot after the plane’s landing and reported on by KABC, passengers onboard were confused as the flight’s captain sought to explain what had happened.

“We weren’t sure if something was going on with the airplane, so that’s why we’re coming back here,” the captain said, according to the video. “It’s going to be a little bit – we have to figure out what’s going on.”

Cockpit doors on passenger jets are generally locked during flights, and they were reinforced after the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks involving hijacked planes.

Monday’s flight was operated by SkyWest, which flies regional routes for American and other airlines. The plane was an Embraer ERJ 175, according to the flight-tracking website FlightAware.

The Omaha Airport Authority said there was no security-related incident at the airport and referred questions to American.

It promises icy, refreshing drinks, and for a cool $179, this slushie maker is yours – if you can find one.

Australian TikTok users have become fixated on a Kmart slushie machine, apparently a budget version of the equally viral Ninja slushie machine (RRP A$499), with users posting videos and reviews of their frosty, fruity extrusions. One Australian video has racked up 2.7m views, and the appliance has sold out online. But with Kmart supply chains under scrutiny and the knowledge that culinary trends and the very specific appliances needed to make them are passing fads, not everyone wants to – or has to – buy a machine to make slushies this summer.

Here are some tips for how you can create the icy treats at home with appliances you likely already have.

The ingredients

Pick your flavours. (Almost) anything can be a slushie
If it can be juiced or blended, it can be a slushie. Berries? Slushie. Watermelon? Slushie. Cucumber? Slushie. In fact, if it exists in liquid form, it can be slushied: coffee, cola, matcha, gazpacho. One Singapore restaurant chain serves celery slushies, while Quebec convenience store Couche-Tard has a long history of slushie marketing ploys, releasing “wonton” and “pizza” flavours that were actually just iced-tea and strawberry flavoured.

Cara Devine, the Melbourne-based bartender and author, says stone fruit and herbs such as sage or basil are “really good friends”, while Sydney bartender Michael Chiem says a piña colada, with its pineapple and coconut elements, is “the ultimate classic slushie … Nothing like a piña colada transports you to a holiday.” He uses cold-pressed pineapple juice to retain the fruit’s freshness and flavour.

A good slushie needs a sour element too. Lime juice is a common acidic ingredient, though lemon, orange, grapefruit and green apple also work well.

And then there’s sloshed slushies. In 1971 a Dallas restaurateur modified a soft-serve machine to produce frozen margaritas at scale, and since then many alcoholic beverages have had their turn as the slushie du jour: Frose, Friesling, Pinot Freezio. At his bars PS40 and Silver’s Motel, Chiem serves salted piña colada and Midori Splice slushies; one time, Devine mixed a whisky and cola version.

But a note on spiked slushies. “Alcohol can be a friend and an enemy,” says Chiem. Add too much alcohol and the mixture won’t freeze, leaving you sipping slurry rather than slushie.

You need a lot of sugar: be brave
“Cold numbs your flavour receptors, so you tend to lean a bit sweeter in your [slushie] recipe,” says Devine.

Generally, cocktails tend to be made on the sour side, says Chiem. Margarita and daiquiris, for example, tend to have more lime juice than sugar syrup, but for slushies: “You’ve got to be brave enough to go the opposite way. You need to add more sugar than you think you need, otherwise it won’t carry the flavour.”

Rather than free-pouring CSR’s finest, it’s best to make a simple sugar syrup first, so it integrates properly into the drink. In a saucepan, simmer equal parts caster sugar and water and stir until the crystals dissolve, then cool. Many recipes use a 1:1 ratio of sugar and water, but Australian Bartender says a 2:1 sugar to water ratio will dilute your drink less.

The method

You (might) need ice
If you want a slushie tomorrow, freeze your ice cubes today. The fastest way to make a slushie is essentially to make an iced smoothie – pop all your liquid ingredients (juices, syrup and alcohol, if using) plus ice in a blender, then whiz. While ice is important for a smooth, homogenous texture and frosty temperature, it can also dilute the drink. Both Devine and Chiem suggest instead using frozen cubes of juice to amplify the flavour; Nagi Maehashi AKA RecipeTin Eats uses frozen strawberries (readily available in supermarkets) in addition to fresh berries in her frozen strawberry daiquiri.

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You need a blender
Slushie machines cool and churn the slush mixture, but a powerful domestic blender can do a decent job. “Not a stick blender, but a NutriBullet or any blender that is OK to blend ice,” says Chiem.

And it sounds obvious when it comes to making a slushie, but “temperature is key”, says Devine. Make sure your ingredients are as cold as possible, don’t keep the blender running too long or the machine will warm the ingredients, and prechill your glasses.

No ice? No blender? There’s a way
Some recipes instruct cooks to partially freeze the combined liquid in a shallow tray or bowl, then use a fork to scrape the mixture into ice crystals – similar to some techniques for making granita.

Because alcohol doesn’t freeze, it can also be used to bring a slushie texture to frozen fruits. Crushed frozen watermelon cubes quickly take on slushie consistency when shaken with a squeeze of lime juice, a shot of syrup and a shot of vodka.

A note: these methods are slower, more physically demanding, and let’s be honest, less impressive than the whiz and wizardry of a blender, but show a slushie machine needn’t be bought off the shelf. The ultimate slushie machine is you.

Cara Devine’s frozen strawberry daiquiri – recipe

The frozen strawberry daiquiri has a rather venerable history as far as modern frozen cocktails go. Crushed ice was being added to daiquiris at El Floridita in Cuba as far back as the 1930s, and when the blender was popularised by Fred Waring in 1938, he took it to famed home economist Mabel Stegner, who included a strawberry daiquiri in her 1952 book Electric Blender Recipes.

Ingredients
60ml light rum, chilled
30ml sugar syrup, chilled
30ml fresh lime juice, chilled
4-5 frozen strawberries
1 cup ice
To garnish: strawberry fan (using a sharp knife, make slits in a strawberry from just below the stem to the other side, so the strawberry is held together at the stem end, then fan out the slices.)

Working as quickly as possible, add all the liquor ingredients to the blender. Add ice and blend, starting slowly then going to full speed. Don’t whiz for too long as you don’t want the drink starting to heat up from the friction. Pour into a glass and garnish with a strawberry fan.

When Warwick Irwin returned home after a week away, he was shocked by the ruin inside.

It was February 2022 and two days earlier his North Lismore house had flooded to the ceiling. “It was quite a mind-blowing experience when I got into the house when the water went down.”

He was eventually offered a buyback, and used the money to buy elsewhere – “well above the flood level”.

“I was going to stay on but I thought about it and … there would always be an anxiety about the next flood,” Irwin said. He was glad not to have sold at a loss, unlike others in the region.

Almost 2,000 homes in Lismore were affected by flooding in 2022, and the price gap between flood-prone and flood-free houses has since increased considerably, according to a new report by the Climate Council and property data firm PropTrack.

Floods have collectively wiped $42.2bn from the value of Australian homes, the report shows, in an analysis of more than two decades of property data.

It found that the median value of a three-bed, two-bath home in a flood-prone zone as of April 2025 was $75,000 less than a home without flood risks. For the 2m flood-prone houses across Australia, at least 70% have had their values reduced by flood risk.

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Climate Councillor and economist Nicki Hutley, a co-author of the report, said more than half of flood-prone properties were owned or rented by low-income families. “Those are people for whom there is no choice but to take on that [flood] risk,” she said. Climate risks were “exacerbating intergenerational inequality” in Australia, Hutley added.

Kate Smolders, a Brisbane mother of two, sold her family home in Chelmer after it flooded in 2011 and 2022. “We knew we couldn’t go through it again. We lost value on our home,” she said. “Families like mine are paying the price for climate inaction – not just emotionally, but financially.”

Chelmer topped the PropTrack report as the suburb with the greatest value loss for houses, of 10.6%, with an average impact of $303,000.

“High-value suburbs that are also flood-exposed are repricing,” the report found. “Over time, this may lead to a structural divergence in housing wealth accumulation based on climate resilience.”

Of the properties at risk of flooding, 40% were in Queensland and 30% in New South Wales.

Hutley said the report highlighted the need for a robust adaptation plan with funding for both community-level infrastructure – such as dam levees and raised roads – and support for individual households.

Jason Byrne, a professor of human geography and planning at the University of Tasmania, who was not involved in the report, said the findings highlighted “the costs imposed by a changing climate and how our planning systems are struggling to cope”.

“We are seeing the beginnings of a response in some states … where more accurate flood mapping is informing planning decisions not to allow intensification of development in flood-prone areas,” Byrne said.

“The development industry is quick to decry any effort in planning to limit development in flood prone areas,” Byrne said. “We have seen some councils in South Australia effectively choosing to ignore their flood mapping because it is seen to harm prospects for future development.”

“We need politicians and decision-makers to develop the courage to stand up to powerful lobby groups and vested interests to protect vulnerable people,” he said, citing unaffordable insurance premiums.

“Stupid” planning decisions were “putting people in harm’s way”, Hutley agreed. “We have information about what climate risk looks like, whether it’s coastal inundation or riverine flooding or bushfire risk.”

“If you’re making homes more vulnerable, it’s going to cost us all a lot more in the long run.”