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‘We hang on to summer a little longer here’: five of the best places for autumn sun in Europe and Turkey

If you’re looking for a last blast of summer, these sunny resorts offer quiet beaches but enough life to stave off the end-of-season blues A Kalkan sunset is always a beautiful thing – the horseshoe-shaped bay deepening to azure blue against an apricot-rose sky – but, in October, when the light is low and the sun drops early, it’s almost transcendentally lovely. In some Turkish resorts, you’d be sitting watching it surrounded by quiet streets, half-empty bars and that melancholic sense that another season is over. In Kalkan, it still feels like summer; the harbourfront restaurants throng with

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Spring-summer 2027 ready-to-wear collections: Africa in the spotlight at Paris Fashion Week

Fashion can absolutely be political, when it shapes identities and questions the balance of power. With his label Maxhosa Africa, South Africa's Laduma Ngxokolo is determined to put the continent in the spotlight. In Paris, Jacques Logoh, designer and founder of Togo's International Fashion Festival, gives African creatives a platform on the theme "Fashion against HIV". Plus Mossi Traoré stages his show at Paris's Père Lachaise Cemetery, to tackle the subject of death without taboo.

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2027 spring-summer ready-to-wear collections: Audacity, movement and sensuality

We bring you all the latest from Paris Fashion Week. For Weinsanto, audacity is about finding a lightness, as embodied by the LGBTQ+ community. At Issey Miyake, it's about sensuality rooted in the Japanese concept of Ma, the space that bridges the gap between fabric and skin. It's a similar story at Yohji Yamamoto who, at 83, is still on the hunt for emotions.

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A look back at Tunisia's summer of shortages

Repeated power and water outages, long queues for bottled water, and poultry farms destroyed by the heat: millions of Tunisians were affected by water and electricity shortages over the summer. Our Observers say this is the result of years of underinvestment. The water shortage eased in late August when authorities sent millions of bottles of water to stores, but many are concerned the same thing could happen next summer.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams on how Covid-19, George Floyd protests affected US social justice

An acclaimed American author has spoken to FRANCE 24 about his theories on how American society's opinion and ideas of social justice have changed since the presidency of Barack Obama. Thomas Chatterton Williams says the left became disillusioned during Obama's second term, and in later years amid the George Floyd protests and Covid-19 pandemic the discourse shifted – initially for the left, but this also impacted the right. The ripples of those times are still resonating today. His latest book is entitled "Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse".

Entertainment

RT Features’ ‘Bodies of Summer,’ From Berlin Winner Iván Fund, Starring Lee Kang-sheng, Miranda de la Serna and Marcelo Subiotto, Unveils First Look (EXCLUSIVE)

RT Features, behind James Gray’s “Paper Tiger” and Walter Salles’ Oscar winner “I’m Still Here,” has announced a star cast of Taiwan’s Lee Kang-sheng and Argentina’s Miranda de la Serna and Marcelo Subiotto for “Bodies of Summer.” A speculative sci-fi drama, the film marks the latest from Fund, who leaped to international attention last year […]

Style

Summer style SOS: 51 genius fashion and beauty tips for sticky days and sweaty nights

From frozen hot-water bottles to a frizzy hair hack – our fashion team share their wisdom • The best summer sandals for men and women On a typical day in high summer you’ll come across two types of people: those who suffer and those who revel. Perhaps you’re a bit of both – you love beaches, but hate hay fever. Or perhaps you burn in the sun, but live for the longer nights sipping pink gin outside. Believe it or not, there are elements of summer that even the Guardian’s fashion desk struggles with, which is why we’ve compiled this summer survival guide. Continue reading...

Weather

Weatherwatch: Why Britain’s heatwaves don’t always end with thunderstorms

The science behind summer storms – and why they have yet to break the hot spell gripping the country “The English summer: three fine days and a thunderstorm,” George II is reputed to have said, although the line has also been attributed to Charles II and others. It was not recorded until 1867, by which time it was already in common circulation. A brief hot spell ending in a thunderstorm is a familiar pattern, but it is not what we have experienced in recent weeks. Continue reading...

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