Benetton Ads Have World Leaders Smooching

If Benetton hoped its new ad campaign would generate buzz, mission accomplished. The fashion label's "Unhate" campaign features photos of world leaders digitally altered to make it look like they're kissing each other, notes the Wall Street Journal. President Obama, for example, is lip-locked with China's Hu Jintao and, separately, Hugo Chavez. Other smoochers include Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, and the two Korean leaders. The pope, meanwhile, is ticked to be depicted kissing an Egyptian imam, in an image the Vatican calls an "unacceptable" provocation, notes AP. See the images here. (More Benetton stories.)