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Check out the short documentary A Woman's Place, about the early days of the UK women's movement: be inspired, then depressed by the fact that the "four basic demands" of the First International Women's Day march are still unanswered. [TheFWord]

Today is International Women's Day, a holiday designed to "mark the economic, political and social achievements of women." Events are taking place around the world to celebrate women and to raise awareness of women's issues.

• This seems like a heavenly match: Britney Spears asked DSquared to create the costumes for her comeback tour. Dan and Dean Caten's fetishistic, high-energy sense of style should be a perfect foil for Brit. [WWD]

In honor of International Women's Day, the United Nations held a luncheon for its "Women's Club," known in inner circles as the U.N. Wives Club. The New Yorker's Lizzie Widdicombe was on hand to overhear the multicultural ladies' gossip, and just like for the rest of us last week, discussion turned to Eliot Spitzer's …

What did you do for International Women's Day on Saturday? According to Carolyn Byerly of WIMN's Voices, you probably did nothing, since IWD was so roundly ignored by the media this year. "My own hometown newspaper Washington Post had not a single op-ed piece today, nor national or local news," laments Byerly. "IWD…

Today it's Girls' Day in Japan, reports Lisa Takeuchi Cullen for Time. It's some kind of ancient festival in which a family celebrates a daughter's future happiness with ceremonial dolls. Cullen has daughters, and, she says, "I'm going to tell them it's the day of the year when everyone gets to remember how special it…

• Oscar winner Marion Cotillard has conspiracy theories! She questions the attack on the World Trade Center towers: "We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes. There was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burned for 24 hours. It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there (in New…