4 d. ago Mix and mismatch: if it doesn’t go with anything, it goes with everything

Bring your ostracised wardrobe items in from the cold by forgetting about whether they go with each other. Instead, let them shine in all their gloryFashion is a dance between rules and rebellion. Great style requires a bit of both. The rules are essential, because one of the key emotional benefits that a great wardrobe can deliver is a sense of control in a chaotic world. The rules are there to simplify and clarify, lighting our route to a well put-together outfit. That well put-together outfit has the power to help you feel calmer, simply because you look in the mirror and see a competent person and therefore feel like a competent person. Style rules also come in useful for making sense of the world around us. Dress codes, style tribes, the signals we send – whether as blatant as the slogan on a T-shirt, or as subtle as the brand of your rucksack – hold an important social function, making other people legible to us.But style also needs friction. Fashion dies if it stops movi...

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9 d. ago Switzerland honors the victims of the deadly Alpine bar fire in a national day of mourning

Switzerland will hold a memorial service to honor the 40 people who were killed in an Alpine bar fire earlier this month during a New Year’s celebration

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3 w. ago Polls close in first phase of Myanmar elections widely condemned as a sham

Turnout appears to be low in vote in which most candidates seen as allies of military junta and large areas excluded by warPolls have closed in conflict-racked Myanmar, ending the first phase of an election that has been widely condemned as a sham designed to legitimise the military junta’s rule.The military has touted the vote as a return to democracy almost five years after it seized power in a coup, ousting the country’s then de-facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, detaining her and sparking a spiralling civil war. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Myanmar is going to the polls. But it’s not the people who hold the power – it’s China

As the military pushes ahead with a widely condemned election, Beijing’s priorities are proving decisiveMyanmar’s first election since the 2021 coup: everything you need to knowMyanmar’s military has managed to regain momentum in its battle against a determined patchwork of opposition groups, retaking some territory, and pushing ahead with a widely condemned election that begins on Sunday.It is a turnaround for the military, which had appeared so beleaguered that some dared to question if it could collapse. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago GLIMPSES: Prepping polling machines ahead of Myanmar's weekend election

Before the polls comes the preparation

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3 w. ago Putin to install nuclear power plant on moon by 2036 after 'real life Star Wars'

The Kremlin is planning on installing a nuclear power plant on the moon in 2036 to power its space programme and research with China, as the fight for space dominance continues

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3 w. ago Russia wants to build a nuclear power plant on the moon in the next few years

Project aims to supply energy for its lunar space programme

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4 w. ago UK snow forecast for Christmas as latest BBC and Met Office predictions revealed

The latest Met Office and BBC Weather forecasts for the Christmas period have been released as people around the UK hold out hope for some flakes on December 25

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