Hours before Flake's announcement, Trump's war of words with Corker escalated in unprecedented fashion ahead of a meeting between the president and Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill.
As Swiss prosecutors began questioning 10 Fifa executive committee members over their role in the controversial vote for the 2018 World Cup in Russia and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Blatter vowed to ride out the storm in a familiar fashion ahead of Friday's presidential election.
On the right, the socially conservative, ultra-liberal former prime minister François Fillon emerged victorious in November, capturing the les Républicains nomination in equally unforeseen fashion, ahead of a former president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and the long-standing favourite, Alain Juppé, another former premier.
And the undefeated 25-year-old, British boxing's only current world champion, says he will continue to conduct himself in a mature, professional fashion ahead of his third title defence.
But, as any sci-fi fan will tell you, the future is a time of hairless, nubile goddesses dressing in celestial sex costumes, so Pam's just keeping the UK fashion ahead of the curve.
EDITD, a previous Seedcamp 2010 winner, aims to use technology to spot fashion trends ahead of time to enable fashion brands and retailers to be more efficient in production and inventory as well as get a grip on competitors, something that can use a little help given the heavy discounting that goes on to shift unwanted stock.
Jezebel.com (a saucy blog that includes coverage of fashion) shot ahead of Style.com (the Condé Nast fashion site) for the first time this fall with more than a half-million visitors.
What a great, great way to go: Sir Chris Hoy rounded off his Olympic career in better fashion, smashing ahead of the opposition in the men's keirin for his sixth gold medal and in the process becoming his country's greatest ever Olympian in the most triumphant of exits.
Well, at least Katie has quite the budding fashion career ahead of her.
It's only Friday, but there's already Oscars fashion drama ahead of Sunday's ceremony.
It is the world's biggest fashion retailer ahead of Gap and Hennes & Mauritz, making 840 million garments a year.
