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“Growing up, I don’t think I really had a skin-care routine,” says Salem Mitchell. “I wasn’t allowed to wear makeup—my parents really wanted me to feel confident in my skin and my freckles.” Her mom, who also has freckles, gave her a piece of advice that stuck with her: Keep skin care and makeup to a minimum. That said, the 24-year-old began cultivating her routine only after she got her big break in modeling. For her, skin care reigns supreme over makeup. Here, she shares her secrets to glowing skin along with the rest of her routine, from effortless brows…

Many people around the world live with depression, which can have a severe impact on their quality of life. While approaches like therapy and medication can help some people manage their symptoms, for others they are not that successful. Could diet succeed where other approaches fail, and if so, why?Depression is such a common mental health disorder that it affects around 5% of all adults around the world, according to World Health Organization (WHO) estimates.There are different types of depression — such as major depressive disorder and persistent depressive disorder lasting for at least 2 years.The causes of depression are…

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The health of a Belgian humanitarian aid worker jailed in Iran is deteriorating, according to his best friend.Olivier Vandecasteele was imprisoned in Tehran last February on the eve of his return home and sentenced to 40 years in jail with 74 lashes.But after nearly one year in solitary confinement his closest friend Olivier Van Steirtegem – who has been helping in the fight for his release – says his condition is not good.”The situation is extremely difficult,” Van Steirtegem told Euronews.”The food is very bad, so he lost already 25 kilos. He doesn’t see anyone because he can’t go out of his cell.…

A mom shared a pressing parenting concern on Reddit recently — and asked for help.The parenting philosophy known as “gentle parenting” has not been working for her, the concerned mother told the online community — and said she felt like “an emotional punching bag” for her four-year-old child.”I was not raised by gentle parents and I knew I needed to do better for my kids, so I really latched onto the gentle parenting philosophy,” a Reddit user known as “mamaearthdumpling” wrote in the parenting subreddit in a post titled, “Gentle parenting burnout.”REDDIT USERS CONSOLE ‘FRUSTRATED’ MOM WHO LEAVES BABIES CRYING…

If you want to put a Caribbean country on your bucket list, there are lots of reasons to choose the Dominican Republic. Sharing the island of Hispaniola with its neighbour Haiti, it’s the most diverse Caribbean destination with mountain ranges, rivers and tropical beaches to its name.The island nation boasts an impressive 1,609 km of coastline too, and according to the Nature Conservancy, is home to 5,600 plant species and 300 types of bird. As well as nature the Dominican Republic has a varied gastronomic heritage, drawing on its Taino, African, and European roots.“The Dominican Republic is a paradise,” says…

The prospect of a recession in the eurozone is fading as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) moderately improves its economic forecast for the bloc.The eurozone is now projected to grow 0.7% this year – up from 0.5% in the previous forecast – and 1.6% in 2024.Germany, the continent’s industrial powerhouse, will see growth of just 0.1% –  a timid performance but a considerable increase from the –0.3% estimated in October.France will expand by 0.7% while Italy will post a 0.6% rate in 2023.In its latest forecast released on Tuesday, the IMF highlights the resilience and adaptation of the European economy in the…

Jack Roosevelt “Jackie” Robinson, who integrated Major League Baseball in 1947, was born to a sharecropping family in Cairo, Georgia, on this day in history, Jan. 31, 1919. His fight for racial equality and his exploits on the field of play made him the first athlete in North American sports to have his jersey number (42) retired by every team in his game. Among many achievements off the diamond, Robinson was an incredible four-sport star at UCLA. He was widely considered one of the most exciting college football players of his era. Plus, he served in the U.S. Army in World War…

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