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* Don’t sacrifice style or carry a second pair of shoes * Keep your feet warm and protected while looking great * Waterproof shoes are no longer reserved just for rain boots Office clothes and rain don’t usually work together. During the fall and winter, your everyday shoes have the double duty of looking great and keeping rain and cold out (forcing you to carry an extra pair of shoes, or sacrifice style). To make rainy commutes less stressful and more efficient, we pulled these 10 waterproof, work-appropriate shoes that will help, rather than hinder, your fall/winter office attire.   ...

Is it too early to start talking about the Met Gala? I thought so, until I heard a certain civilian-turned-actress-turned-royal (Turned civilian again, I guess?) is rumored to show up. In case you haven’t heard, The Sun reported Meghan Markle might attend this year’s festivities, and I’m now devoting all of March and April to figuring out what Meghan Markle’s Met Gala 2020 outfit will be like. While it might seem a little random for Markle to attend, royal stans know her to be quite fond of Edward Enninful, British Vogue’s editor-in-chief, with whom she worked on curating the magazine’s September...

Garmin's popular vivoactive 3 smartwatch is not a cheap purchase, so we strongly recommend protecting it from scrapes, scratches, bumps and knocks with a specially designed case. Whether you have the standard vivoactive 3 or went all out with the music model, we have a case solution to suit you. Take a look at our selections available now for savvy smartwatch owners. Black to basics Staff Pick RunTech Garmin vivoactive 3 Watch Protective Silicone Case Compatible with the standard vivoactive 3, this is made from skin-friendly, odor-free silicone rubber covered in an anti-dust coating. Ultra-thin and lightweight, it fits around...

Hibiscus. A flower quite like no other. Appearing in all her glory in the morning, and then fading as the evening sun casts long shadows amongst the trees. I remember this flower well, from my childhood home, a bougainvillea-clad house on the coast of East Africa. With fragrant frangipani and the bright red of the hibiscus. My mother was a keen gardener, tending tropical native flowers with an artist’s flair, getting just the right balance between “wild and free,” and “tame and homely.” In the rocky soil of the ancient coral cliffs on which our house was built, desert roses...

Kenya’s agriculture minister has ordered donkey slaughterhouses to be shut down as concerns rise over the theft of the animals by gangs seeking their skin for use in traditional Chinese medicine. Kenya has become the epicenter of a fast-growing industry in Africa to supply donkey skins to China, where a gelatin called ejiao made from boiling them down is used in a traditional medicine believed to stop aging and boost libido. Kenya has four licensed donkey abattoirs — more than any other country on the continent — which slaughter about 1,000 donkeys per day, government data showed. However, growing Chinese demand for ejiao has...