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Photo: RexObesity is the biggest threat to women's healthEngland's chief medical officer Dame Sally Davies has warned obesity is the biggest threat to women's health and the health of future...
View ArticleShia LaBeouf Is Taking Your Phone Calls Now (Really)
Shia LaBeouf is nothing if not interesting and active. The actor is coming off a performance of watching all of his movies, in a row, for three straight days. That’s after he got popped for being drunk...
View ArticleHere's Every Celebrity Guest Star From Taylor Swift's 1989 Tour
Photo: Christopher Polk/TAS/Getty Images.We knew Taylor Swift had a large squad going into this summer, but nothing prepared us for just how big it could get. The singer, who turns 26 years old on the...
View ArticleCharlotte Tilbury On Her First Store, Beauty Line & Painting Famous Faces
It's only fitting that one of the world's most in-demand makeup artists and founder of her own beauty empire, Charlotte Tilbury, would open her first store right slap bang opposite Covent Garden Tube...
View ArticleExpert Says 'Eating For Two' While Pregnant Is Dangerous
Photographed by Ben RitterThe chief medical officer has released a report that aims to put to rest the myth that women should ‘eat for two’ when pregnant. Prof Sally Davies says that obesity is not...
View ArticleMariah GIFs For Every Possible Situation
When we think of Christmas, we think of Mariah Carey. Ever since she released "All I Want For Christmas Is You" from an entire album of Christmas songs called "Merry Christmas", followed by another...
View ArticleWhy You're Not Getting A Christmas Album From Your Favorite Pop Star This Year
Photo: GHNASSIA/SIPA/REX Shutterstock; George Chinsee/WWD/REX Shutterstock; Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images; Matt Baron /Rex Shutterstock; Photo: GHNASSIA/SIPA/REX Shutterstock. When you were a kid, it...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia Lets Women Vote — Finally
Photo: Ali Al Mubarak/Getty Images. People across Saudi Arabia will head to the polls on Saturday in what are being billed as historic elections.For the first time, women in the Persian Gulf nation...
View ArticleBanksy Contributes Art, Aid To Syrian Refugees
Photo: BanksyIf you were looking for new Banksy art, look no further than the Jungle refugee camp in Calais, France. According to a set of photos posted to his website, the British artist created four...
View ArticleThe Best Box Sets For Interior Design Obsessives
CourtesyAre you the kind of viewer who spends more time scrutinising the sets of the latest box set series than following the action? You’re not the only one; there are (at least) eleven of us.For...
View ArticleWe Really Used To Crush On These Celebrities, But Not Anymore
We've been somewhat in love with Jared Leto for, what, 20 years now? We stood by him as Jordan Catalano's baby-blue eyes struggled to make sense of letters on a page. We wept as he saluted his mom in...
View ArticleThe Fanciest Lingerie Sets To Buy Yourself This Christmas
For whatever reason, lingerie always gets shoved down on the list of need-to-buys, so we’ve compiled the prettiest selection of undies out there to get you inspired. The feeling of unearthing a good...
View ArticleGillian's Indie Christmas Playlist
Bored of Slade and Mariah? Why not try out Refinery29 UK's Christmas indie playlist! Warning: bands in skinny jeans find Christmas very, very depressing.Julian Casablancas - "I Wish It Was Christmas...
View ArticleWhat Party Girls Looked Like In 10 Different Points In History
We may not all be so practiced in our day-to-day uniforms, but almost everyone has a signature style for getting dressed up. There are people who stick to party-ready basics like a little black dress,...
View ArticleUnited Nations Reaches Historic Climate Change Deal
AP/Michel EulerAfter more than seven years of negotiating, more than 190 countries have agreed on a climate change agreement designed to stop the onslaught of global warming. The landmark agreement...
View ArticleCareer Advice From An Award-Winning Journalist
Linda Deutsch was only 18 when she got her first newspaper job in 1963. Her first front-page byline soon followed. After moving to Los Angeles four years later with $1,000, she shot up the ranks from...
View ArticleThe Wedding Day: Reggie and Frances Kray
Photo: Daily Mail/REX ShutterstockWHEN: 19th April 1965.WHERE: St James’ Church, Bethnal GreenWHAT HAPPENED: It was a cold, damp drizzly day when Reggie Kray, the gangster who terrorised London as one...
View ArticleYouTube's Most-Watched Music Videos Of 2015
Photo: @AdeleVEVOFirst, video killed the radio star. Then, YouTube killed the video star. Or that's what everyone thought would happen. But as it turns out, plenty of artists are still doing just fine...
View ArticleAdmit It, You Love Movie Shopping Montages
Photo: Touchtone Pictures/ Photofest.We can be a bit hard on movie clichés, but that doesn't mean we don't still (sometimes) love (some of) them. Case in point: the elaborate shopping montage, in which...
View ArticleIn Defence Of Crying At The TV
I keep a box of tissues by the couch. It’s a necessary precaution because I cry at nearly everything on my TV screen. A reunion, of any kind – on the news, a talk show, in a film – I’m in floods. An...
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