After Ebola: Life For Women In Sierra Leone Now
All too often, we forget about countries that have recently been ravaged by conflict, disease and natural disaster, because the news coverage slows down, and then stops, the online petitions disappear,...
View ArticleThe Latest Serious Health Risk To Affect The Rio Olympics
With a little under a month to go before the Olympic Games begin in Rio, Brazilian scientists have discovered a drug-resistant super bacteria on some of the city’s beaches, according to new...
View ArticleEmma Watson’s Latest Film Makes Just £47 At The UK Box Office
Photo: Jemal Countess/Getty ImagesEmma Watson’s latest film, thriller The Colony, made just £47 at the box office in its opening weekend in the UK.In her first lead role since Harry Potter, Watson...
View ArticleIs Couture Still Relevant In 2016?
Last Sunday Vetements kicked off the couture fashion week schedule with its SS17 show, challenging the conventions of the traditionally top-tier, luxury couture show with a collection consisting of...
View ArticleChilcot Inquiry: The Main Findings In Brief
After seven years, the Chilcot Inquiry, the official inquiry into the Iraq war has been released.The report has been a long time coming, totalling 2.6 million words – four times longer than Tolstoy’s...
View ArticleYes, Discharge In Your Pants Is Normal
Photo: Kate AnglesteinBody shaming hit a new low last week when the unusual hashtag #PantyChallenge started circulating on Snapchat and Twitter. The highly problematic trend stemmed from "one woman's...
View ArticleWhat Parts Of Our Childhood Should We Keep In The Past?
Remember that TV show you loved as a kid? Try watching it now, you might be surprised how much has changed. We glorify past decades — but is the nostalgia really worth embracing? Should some memories...
View ArticleWe Won't Be Getting GOT Back As Soon As We Thought
Photo: Helen Sloan/courtesy of HBO.Game of Thrones 's sixth season wrapped up last month, leaving fans hungry for the next instalment. While HBO hasn't set a premiere date, many assumed the series...
View ArticleWe're Really Sorry, Dry Shampoo Lovers...
There's a meme floating around the internet that reads: "By Friday, my hair is 90% dry shampoo." And it resonates, right? Since dry shampoo hit the market a few short years ago, people across the...
View ArticleHere's Why Mosquitoes Really Won't Leave You Alone
Illustrated by Elliot Salazar.You can always count on a mosquito bite to ruin a fun summer evening. But you've probably noticed that one of your friends (or maybe it's you) seems to have an uncanny...
View ArticleBill Cunningham's Favourite Street Corner Was Named In His Honour
If you wanted to spot the late, great Bill Cunningham at work, there was one particular cross street in Midtown Manhattan, New York, worth loitering at: 57th Street and Fifth Avenue. Following the...
View ArticleLearning To Live With My Borderline Personality Disorder
Illustrated by Isabel CastilloFor me, everything is black and white. Some mornings I can wake up at 6am and feel on top of the world, happier than I’ve ever felt in my entire life, but within the hour...
View ArticleA Tall Girl's Guide To Dressing Well
'Go high or go home' has been my shoe mantra since I finally accepted my height – all six feet of it – about eight years ago. Throughout my teens I was crippled with insecurity about my BFG stature. I...
View ArticleDrake, Kanye & Rihanna Respond To Police Killing of Alton Sterling
The world has been devastated by the news, and graphic online evidence, that yet another black man has died at the hands of the U.S. police force.Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old father of five, was...
View ArticleWhy Everyone Should Read Junk, The Bright Green Teenage Book About Heroin
When I was 13 I fell in love with a 15-year-old heroin addict called Lily who wore nothing but a black string vest. And with the 42-year-old British man, Melvin Burgess, who wrote her character in the...
View ArticleThese Are The Top Cities For Finding Tinder Love — On Holiday
You travel abroad to see the sights, get a break from your regular routine, and perhaps...get cozy with a local. Well, that's the thinking behind Tinder Plus' Passport tool, which lets Tinder...
View Article20 Films People Should Watch Before Getting Married
Photo: Moviestore/Rex/Shutterstock.If you want a fairy-tale ending, watch a Disney film. If you want pure romance, watch a Nicholas Sparks film. If you want a hilarious send-up of wedding madness,...
View ArticleHow This Couture Dress Was Made Out Of Liquid Silicone
You Have To See How This Liquid Silicone Dress Was Made (UK)Sewing, cutting, draping, steaming — though you might not know how to do these things yourself, you’d recognise most of the processes of...
View ArticleThe Next Prime Minister Will Be A Woman: Where Do May And Leadsom Stand On...
It’s official: the next UK prime minister will either be Theresa May or Andrea Leadsom. This afternoon, Conservative MPs knocked out Justice Secretary Michael Gove in the second round of voting for the...
View ArticleThe Most Jaw-Dropping Looks From The Autumn '16 Couture Shows
Of all the international Fashion Weeks held throughout the year, the haute couture shows, while incredibly impressive, aren't exactly where you'd expect to encounter many surprises. Yet the autumn '16...
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