Maya AngelouMaya Angelou was just three when her mother sent her to live with her grandma, and 13 when they were reunited. After so long apart, could she ever learn to love her?The first decade of the 20th century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. Read More...
Fashion This article is more than 1 year oldUpside-down bikinis: the trend made popular by Love Island and the KardashiansThis article is more than 1 year oldSearches for the style rose 203% within the last month, says shopping app Lyst
What could possibly explain the upside-down bikini trend? Given the style’s popularity among Love Island’s female contestants, one might reasonably assume a hasty recoupling with their bikini tops after a session in the “beauty salon” (Casa Amor’s code for the bedroom, apparently). Read More...
Weather trackerRéunionAnalysisWeather tracker: first red cyclone warning for Réunion since 1989 Matt Hills for MetDeskCyclone Belal is expected to remain a strong storm through the coming week
Active weather is expected to affect northern Australia and parts of the Mascarene Islands in the south Indian Ocean this week, with the monsoon trough a triggering factor in both cases.
The monsoon trough is an area of the Intertropical Convergence Zone that interacts with the larger scale monsoon circulation. Read More...
