Sint Maarten approves plan to destroy entire population of vervet monkeys | Caribbean

 Posted on April 6, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  753 words  |  Christie Applegate

Caribbean This article is more than 1 year oldSint Maarten approves plan to destroy entire population of vervet monkeysThis article is more than 1 year oldThe Caribbean territory plans to exterminate at least 450 of the invasive primates – but critics disagree with the proposal The government of Sint Maarten in the eastern Caribbean has approved a controversial plan to cull its entire population of vervet monkeys, as the proliferation of the invasive species becomes an increasing nuisance on the Dutch island territory. [Read More]

Yves Coueslant obituary | Interiors

 Posted on April 6, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1024 words  |  Delta Gatti

InteriorsObituaryYves Coueslant obituaryOne of the three founders of the international perfume business DiptyqueWhen François Mitterrand, the former French president, visited Diptyque, the small Paris shop round the corner from his home in St-Germain-des-Prés, he would insist on queueing up with other customers to pay. This was remembered with admiration by Yves Coueslant, one of Diptyque's three founders, who has died of cancer aged 87. From this first shop, opened in 1961 to sell fabric and artisan goods, Diptyque has grown into an international perfume business – perhaps best known for its line of 50 scented candles – with 23 shops in eight countries, including four in London. [Read More]

David Bowie obituary | David Bowie

 Posted on April 5, 2024  |  18 minutes  |  3680 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

Artist who blazed a trail of musical trends and pop fashion, reinventing himself, his music and media across many decadesby Adam SweetingUntil the last, David Bowie, who has died of cancer, was still capable of springing surprises. His latest album, Blackstar, appeared on his 69th birthday on 8 January, and showed that his gift for making dramatic statements as well as challenging, disturbing music had not deserted him. Throughout the 1970s, Bowie was a trailblazer of musical trends and pop fashion. [Read More]

I secretly hate sex and now fear I will lose my girlfriend

 Posted on April 5, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  958 words  |  Delta Gatti

Ask PhilippaRelationshipsYou don’t have to be sexual to feel love, but you do have to be open The question I’m a guy in my mid-20s who also happens to be asexual. And no, I am not gay. I just can’t feel much, physically. I don’t see it as a problem, but people jump to conclusions online. No one other than me knows. I am in a relationship with this lovely girl and we have only been physically intimate occasionally (once or twice a month – been with her for four months), but it’s OK because she doesn’t have an insatiable need. [Read More]

Indian mystic Sadhguru on 100-day motorbike mission to save soil | Soil

 Posted on April 5, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  801 words  |  Merlyn Hunt

The age of extinctionSoil This article is more than 1 year oldIndian mystic Sadhguru on 100-day motorbike mission to save soilThis article is more than 1 year oldYoga guru will visit dozens of countries en route from London to India to highlight threat to one of nature’s greatest resources One of India’s best-known spiritual leaders is embarking on a 100-day motorbike journey from London to India to raise awareness of one of nature’s most undervalued resources. [Read More]

Running with the bulls at San Fermn festival in pictures | World news

 Posted on April 5, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  533 words  |  Merlyn Hunt

Running with the bulls at San Fermín festival – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Revellers from around the world flock each year to Pamplona for the bullfights and the running of the bulls during the San Fermín festival. The annual ritual in the northern Spanish city was made famous by Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises [Read More]

The Affair review A murky and beguiling twist on the oldstory of adultery

 Posted on April 5, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  840 words  |  Brenda Moya

TV reviewDramaReviewAfter an encounter in a Long Island diner, life quickly grows more complicated for Dominic West’s married man and Ruth Wilson’s waitressYou know how it is. You get married young, to your college love, have a bunch of kids, beautiful kids. And you live in a beautiful New York brownstone. OK, so your wealthy father-in-law helped with the house and you’d rather not be so reliant on him (he’s an asshole, to be honest). [Read More]

A nation betrayed | Books

 Posted on April 4, 2024  |  16 minutes  |  3257 words  |  Delta Gatti

BooksA nation betrayedIn his explosive new book, The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens argues that the former US secretary of state should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. Here, in our second exclusive extract, he explains why Kissinger should be held responsible for the bloody invasion of CyprusPart one: Why has he got away with it? In Years of Upheaval, the second volume of his trilogy of memoirs, Henry Kissinger found the subject of the 1974 Cyprus catastrophe so awkward that he decided to postpone consideration of it: " [Read More]

A Year Without Autumn by Liz Kessler - review | Children's books

 Posted on April 4, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  377 words  |  Brenda Moya

Children's booksChildren's booksA Year Without Autumn by Liz Kessler - review'Do 12-year-old girls find absolutely everything fabulous? If they do, or if you do, then you would enjoy this novel'A Year Without Autumn is a novel on twelve-year-old Jenni's discovery on what true friendship is about. Jenni's best friend is Autumn- they share every aspect of their lives with each other and love each other dearly. So; when Jenni suddenly finds herself exactly one year in the future, and a tragedy that threatens to destroy her friendship with Autumn, she races to figure out what events have taken place in a year to make their relationship so strained, and to find her way back home. [Read More]

From the Observer archive, 9 June 1985: My years of hell growing up with a mother inferior | Books

 Posted on April 4, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  500 words  |  Delta Gatti

A look backBooksFrom the Observer archive, 9 June 1985: My years of hell growing up with a mother inferiorHilary Spurling reviews Susan Chitty's sensational memoir of her mother, the novelist Antonia WhiteAntonia White had a splendid story about Dylan Thomas squashing a fried egg between the pages of a rare book belonging to Augustus John. This memoir by her daughter (Now to My Mother: A Very Personal Memoir of Antonia White) produces a rather similar sensation of appalled and fascinated revulsion. [Read More]