Red carpet fashionOscars 2014Come Oscar night, the red carpet's favourite makeup artist will be called upon yet again to paparazzi-proof the most famous of faces. In the age of high-def, DIY just doesn't cut it Sali Hughes's Bafta night makeover: hair, makeup and £2m+ of diamonds
"I'm known for making women look beautiful – that's my USP," Charlotte Tilbury declares when we meet in her north-west London studio. All around her, chic young women dash about, toting bags of cosmetics and giant photos of female celebrities whom Tilbury, a celebrity makeup artist, has helped to look beautiful, including Kristen Stewart, Penélope Cruz, Naomi Watts and – who else, Charlotte?
ShortcutsHealth & wellbeingA Tanzanian tribe may offer a healthy antidote to sitting at a desk all day – if you can kneel or squat for more than five minutes, that is
So kneeling is the new standing. Squatting, too, when it comes to work – desk work, that is – that would normally be done sitting.
Yup, there’s research. It finds that the Hadza people in Tanzania, whose inactive hunting-gathering lifestyle is similar to that of office workers, don’t have the same health problems, such as cardiovascular disease and premature death.
The ObserverChristianity This article is more than 4 years oldFresh scrutiny for evangelical Christian GP Richard ScottThis article is more than 4 years oldGeneral Medical Council to review decision not to investigate doctor accused of breaking rules on talking about beliefsThe General Medical Council is reviewing its decision not to investigate a doctor accused of evangelising about his Christian faith to patients in the latest twist in a high-profile battle about the limits of religious freedom.
La dolce vita? Maria Callas, the life of a diva – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email To celebrate the centenary of the soprano’s birth an exhibition of rarely seen photographs from the Intesa Sanpaolo Publifoto archive showing her life on stage, and off, is at Gallerie d’Italia Milan until 28 February 2024
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How many of us operating in marketing over the years, working with new technologies, have created our own Horniman walruses? Photograph: Horniman Museum and GardensHow many of us operating in marketing over the years, working with new technologies, have created our own Horniman walruses? Photograph: Horniman Museum and GardensDigital marketingMedia & Tech Network This article is more than 7 years oldMarketers should learn the lessons of the stuffed Horniman walrusThis article is more than 7 years oldJim CarrollIn the rush to embrace the latest platforms, the communications industry creates unnatural campaigns stuffed with pointless new technologies Frederick Horniman was a Victorian tea trader and avid collector of art and artefacts, objects and specimens from across the world.
TV news This article is more than 9 years oldSaudi billionaire to launch Arabic satellite news channel AlarabThis article is more than 9 years oldBusinessman Prince Alwaleed bin Talal vows to ‘break the mould’ set by al-Jazeera and newcomer Sky News ArabiaThe Saudi billionaire businessman Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is to launch an Arabic satellite news channel, vowing to “break the mould” in a crowded field.
Bahrain-based Alarab News Channel, broadcasting in Arabic, said on Monday its launch on 1 February 2015 would usher in “a completely new style of news programming in the Middle East and beyond”.
Australia newsTeenage boy dies while water-tubing on river on Queensland’s Fraser coastThe 14-year-old was being towed behind a boat on a tube when he fell off and disappeared from view on Sunday
A search and rescue effort has ended in tragedy after the body of a 14-year-old boy was pulled from a river on Queensland’s Fraser Coast.
The boy was being towed behind a boat on a tube when he fell off and disappeared from view just after 10am on Sunday.
History booksReviewThe cane fields of the West Indies hid a corrupt societyIn Jamaica recently, I was invited to lunch at a Restoration-era plantation house. The sound of crushed ice clinking against glass greeted me, as bow-tied waiters served guests at a long table draped in linen. The top brass of the island's sugar industry was there. For three centuries the plantation's slave-grown sugar had satisfied the British craving for cakes, confections and the popular version of coffee and tea (that "
Classical musicReviewPoltéra/Stott/Bergen PO/Litton
(BIS)The 1945 Cello Concerto is probably the least performed of Samuel Barber's concertos – less winsomely melodic than the work for violin, less flamboyantly virtuosic than the Piano Concerto. But as Christian Poltéra's fierce, theatrical performance demonstrates, it's a ruggedly impressive achievement in its own right, in which the romanticism associated with Barber's music only emerges from time to time, particularly in the slow movement and one of the episodes of the finale.