We all know that every child under 10 seems to be obsessed with "Let It Go" (while every parent probably wants to put it in Room 101) but have you ever wondered what are the nation's most popular Disney songs?

If you find yourself having to entertain nieces, nephews and friends' children this bank holiday weekend (or you just feel like reconnecting with your inner nine-year-old), why not have a Disney singalong?

And now DisneyLife have issued the most popular Disney songs in the UK. That's quite a back catalogue to pick from. Click through to see who made the final 10.

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If you keep up to date with the reigning kings and queens of the fashion and entertainment worlds, you might have noticed that the Smith kids are absolutely killing it at the moment. Karate Kid-turned-serious actor Jaden has won over critics with his latest role in new Netflix series The Get Down and earlier this year surprised us by starring in the SS16 Louis Vuitton womenswear campaign, in a skirt, and he absolutely owned it.

His little sis, who already has an i-D cover, Marc Jacobs campaign, and new fashion story in the upcoming issue of CR Fashion Book under her glittering Chanel belt was unveiled as the face of the French fashion house's eyewear line a couple of months ago. And now Chanel has shared behind-the-scenes film footage from Willow's campaign shoot and it's safe to say we definitely weren't this cool at 15.

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Karl Lagerfeld chose Smith Junior Junior as his latest muse back in March, and since then Willow has been seen consistently in Chanel, everywhere from the Met Ball to front row at the shows. Speaking to Teen Vogue in May, the precocious star stated: "Being a young African-American woman with dreads, it blows my mind that I’m a Chanel ambassador... Like, how am I a Chanel ambassador? It is so beautiful. I’m coming into a new part of my life that is completely unknown, and I’m jumping right in. All I can do from here is continue to shift paradigms and continue to push the envelope further and further. But I am doing it every day just by being myself."

In the AW16 eyewear campaign we see Willow rocking three styles – vintage, urban chic, and the Chanel Coco chain – and the latest collection features two pairs of optical glasses and three pairs of sunglasses.

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Smith isn't the only teen on Chanel's radar as 17-year-old Lily-Rose Depp is the new face of Chanel No. 5 L'Eau. Fashion's obsession with youth clearly rages on...

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Anyone who has been near a magazine, TV, or billboard starting the moment the spring thaw sets in knows how this works — the same unrealistic images are trotted out to inspire women to get ready for the beach. And no, we aren't talking about helpful photos of how to pack a picnic basket. Sick of the ever-present pressure to fit some kind of "beach body" standard, we kicked off this summer with a single mission: Take back the beach. There's still a whole month of summer left, but we can't help but feel nostalgic for all that followed.

We visited Bangladesh, Miami, Ghana, Istanbul, China, and, most recently, Cuba, to talk to women about how they view and experience the beach. We followed women into dressing rooms (not in a creepy way) and got real concerning what a terrible process swimsuit shopping can be. We learned that the beach was a major source of body panic for women, even though we know a day at the beach is really about not giving a fuck. We spoke with women who are learning to overcome their insecurities and love their bodies, and that goes back to what we've been saying all this time: It's your body. It's your summer. Enjoy them both.

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For girls who are blind in India, options are limited.

That's especially true when it comes to getting an education.

UNICEF statistics put female primary school attendance in India at around 82%, but in parts of the country, it can still be difficult for girls to access an education. And for those with a disability, sometimes rejected by their families, it can be even harder.

That’s where one school is stepping in.

Shree Pragnachakshu Mahila Seva Kunj, located in the Gujarat area of India, provides a home, education, and a sense of family to girls and women who are visually impaired.

Photographer Sarker Protick visited the school in March to document the lives of the girls living there.

“One of the things in my mind [was always], How do I do it the right way,” he told Refinery29 by phone from Bangladesh. He said he was very aware of the irony of documenting girls who are blind via photography. “Everything I do is really based on my eyes. And there I was, with these women, these girls who don’t need that.”

The school teaches its roughly 200 students a variety of subjects, from music to practical skills like cooking and small repairs. Some topics are aimed at helping them lead independent lives and find work — the school teaches classes in electrical wiring, computer operation, typing, and sewing.

The school, which was founded in 1995, is run by a married couple, Pankajbhai and Muktaben Dagli, who are both blind themselves. Protick, who stayed at the school for four days, said that the Daglis have a very strong relationship with their students — some of whom they've adopted.

"Before going there, I didn’t expect it to be that personal," he said. He thought it would be like the kind of non-governmental aid organisation school that he'd seen before. Instead, he saw a family.

"When I went, I realised that it’s something very different than anything I have normal experience [of] before," he said. "The relationship there was so different."

Ahead, see the beautiful and moving photos of the girls at Shree Pragnachakshu Mahila Seva Kunj.

This interview has been lightly edited for grammar and clarity.

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On a recent trip to the beach, my friend asked me if he could compliment my tan. It took me a minute to realise what he meant. My family is Indian, my parents moved to the States several years before I was born, so my skin is always naturally some shade of brown. My buddy said he'd never presume to casually turn to a person of colour and exclaim, "Nice tan!"

Point taken.

But in my case, I told him to fire away. My beach game has been strong this year, and as summer winds to a close, I’ll be doing everything I can to keep my skin looking golden-brown well into fall.

I realise this runs contrary to how some people with my skin tone approach the end of another season in the sun. Beauty headlines about treating sunspots, exfoliating for skin renewal, and even applying flat-out skin-lightening products speak to certain ethnicities of women for whom fair skin is the ideal, my mother among them. Full disclosure: I’m a guy, and the most elaborate product I use on my face is moustache wax. So I am not the target audience for these products. But as a second-generation immigrant, I also grew up with a very different attitude toward my skin tone than my parents did.

When we were kids, my folks made every effort to assimilate my brother and me. So much so that I rarely thought about having a different skin colour than my mostly white peers. Perhaps my point of view would have developed differently had I grown up around more Indian kids, or other children of colour. But as it happened, I adopted a similar attitude toward melanin as my white friends. At my private school, having a tan was a sign of status; it meant tropical vacations with a family who had money and time to spare on leisure.

But when I started purposely wanting to tan my skin, my parents thought I was nuts. Firstly, they’re doctors, so they were sure to inform me at a young age about the dangers of sun damage. Though my skin’s melanin protects me from getting sunburned as quickly as my paler friends, it doesn’t make me immune — neither from painful burns nor from skin cancer.

There came a turning point at which darkening my skin in the sun transformed into a very personal, even prideful, choice: I love being brown.

I learned from my parents, and from my own experience in the sun (not to mention a stint working for a health magazine) that wearing the proper SPF is just as important for me as for anyone else. Sunscreen doesn’t prevent skin from getting tan (my parents taught me that, too).

Beyond issuing me medical warnings, my parents also come from a culture where the ideal of having fair skin has a long, convoluted history — one that is deeply rooted in class, caste, and sectarian division. India’s robust industry of lightening products promises to deliver complexions closer to those of Bollywood’s leading players, who are almost invariably very light-skinned. The pressure for women to be lighter-skinned is much stronger, while the Bollywood culture is more forgiving and readily accepting of men with slightly darker complexions.

Incidentally, I can see how this plays out close to home. My dad doesn't give much thought to his tan, which can grow several shades darker as he spends more time outside during summer. Meanwhile, no brim is too wide for my mum, who has an impressive collection of visors and sun hats. Oversized shades have likewise been one of her fashion hallmarks since the '80s. She takes these measures to protect her skin from damage, but also to maintain her natural fairness — the colour she has been her entire life, the one that makes her feel most like herself.

And here I was pursuing the opposite ideal.

I'll admit with some embarrassment that, at first, I was blindly marching to the drumbeat set by my white peers in their pursuit of the perfect tan. I didn’t think of myself as different from them. I realise what a blessing it is that I was able to maintain that ignorance, because I didn’t face the kind of racism that so many people of colour do. I didn’t look at them and think, I want to be white; in some sense, I already felt that I was.

But as I grew more self-aware, I turned to embrace my cultural difference rather than remaining wilfully blind to it. College happened, I moved away from home, and I woke up. There came a turning point at which darkening my skin in the sun transformed into a very personal, even prideful, choice: I love being brown. As an adult, tanning to me is about highlighting my difference, rather than falling in line with what anyone else is doing.

I like how it feels to be different than my white friends, and I love that something as relaxing as lying on the beach helps me feel more like myself when I look in the mirror afterward. I imagine it’s the same feeling someone who loves her freckled cheeks gets when she sees herself smiling back in her reflection. When my skin inevitably lightens during winter, I often feel I look sallow and even vaguely like my body is betraying me. After I come in from the sun, I feel my face looks healthier and more like my own, that even my limbs look somehow stronger and more capable. Tanning to me is not about showing off to anyone that I’m winning at summer by spending time at the beach. It’s about feeling confident in my own skin, and like I am presenting the best version of myself to the world.

Would anyone think to ask whether a white person who likes to tan is ashamed of being white?

But just because for me, darkening my skin is about pride, that doesn’t mean for someone like my mum, striving for fair skin means she is ashamed of being Indian. Isn’t it a double standard to turn around and accuse people of colour who strive for lighter skin of cultural shame? Would anyone think to ask whether a white person who likes to tan is ashamed of being white?

Like any other decision we make in how to present our bodies, whether someone enjoys being tan or prefers to have fairer skin is deeply personal and wrapped up in questions of identity politics. Of course, race is not a choice — and effecting any change in skin tone certainly isn’t as simple as, say, dyeing your hair. But how we feel about our complexions and what they mean to us? It’s hard to think of anything more personal than that.

As for me, so many of us in this country will tell you that it's not easy, but I love not being white. When I'm tan, I feel more like myself — a beautifully brown, nonwhite American. And yes, you may pay me your compliments for that.

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Update: A French court overturned the ban on burkinis in public beaches introduced earlier this summer, the AP reports. The decision comes after a series of images of women dressed modestly being approached by armed policemen on the French Riviera have gone viral. Per the ban, a burkini-clad woman would need to remove the covered-up swimsuit to avoid being fined €38 (£33).

This ruling specifically concerns Villeneuve-Loubet, a town in southeastern France. But the court's decision is expected to reach 30 other coastal towns in the French Riviera that have adopted similar bans on the modest garment, per the AP. (The ban in Cannes, which was put in place at the end of July, is set to lift on August 31, CNN reported.) Women who have been ticketed for wearing burkinis on the beach will be able to contest the charges, according to one of the human rights lawyers that argued against the widely criticised decree.

France's decision to police the clothing women can wear on the beach has sparked a worldwide conversation about the ethics — and the legality — of such restrictions. Aheda Zanetti, the Australian designer credited as the burkini's inventor, argued that the government's reasoning behind the ban completely missed the point of the garment, in a column for The Guardian. "It's just a garment to suit a modest person, or someone who has skin cancer, or a new mother who doesn't want to wear a bikini, it's not symbolising Islam," Zanetti wrote. "This has given women freedom, and they want to take that freedom away? So who is better, the Taliban or French politicians? They are as bad as each other."

Despite the restrictions in France, burkini sales have reportedly gone up since the ban was put in place, according to Zanetti.

This story was originally published on August 12, 2016.

Burkinis are full-body swimsuits that allow women to cover their bodies while still being able to enjoy the sun, sea and sand a typical beach has to offer.

Nigella Lawson rocked one a few years back to protect her skin, but they are most commonly worn by Muslim women seeking to dress modestly.

Well, the Mayor of Cannes is offended by women being able to dress how they like in the sun, and has banned burkinis on beaches of the French Riviera resort.

This is despite the fact that French women are increasingly covering up on the beach and topless sunbathing on the south of France has been declining for years.

David Lisnard called burkinis "the symbol of Islamic extremism" and said they could disrupt public order, reported French news agency Agence-France Presse.

Lisnard said anyone "wearing improper clothes that are not respectful of good morals and secularism" would be banned from accessing beaches.

"Beachwear which ostentatiously displays religious affiliation, when France and places of worship are currently the target of terrorist attacks, is liable to create risks of disrupting public order," he added.

France remains on high alert after a series of terrorist attacks, including the July truck attack, claimed by Islamic State, in which 85 people died in nearby Nice.

Cannes will still allow other religious symbols, such as the kippah, Jewish skullcap, and the Christian cross on the beach. Muslim women will still be permitted to wear the veil over their hair.

Anyone caught ignoring the burkini ban will be fined €38 (£33) if they fail to leave the beach or change into another swimsuit.

According to reports, no one has been caught wearing a burkini since the ban came into force in late July.

Many have voiced opposition to the ban and The League of Human Rights (LDH), a human rights NGO in France, said it would challenge it in court.

Local LDH leader Herve Lavisse said politicians in the region should "calm their discriminatory ardour and defend the spirit of the Republic," the BBC reported.

Earlier this week, a private burkini pool party for Muslim women in nearby Marseille was cancelled after it was deemed a "threat to public order".

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"I was so excited when a pregnancy test finally came up positive. Within a week I'd picked out the nursery furniture, the buggy, the names," says Néna, who was 27 the first time she miscarried. "None of my friends had kids at that point, but my best friend had fallen pregnant a month earlier, so I felt like we were in it together."

At 11 weeks, Néna and her husband couldn't wait any longer and told their families. "I hadn't had any sickness, we were going to have the scan the following week and everything felt fine, no bleeding or scary stuff," she says. But then came the moment neither of them had been prepared for. "We went for the scan when I was 12 weeks and three days. I knew what I was expecting to see, but I didn't see it – it was just empty. It was black. The bottom fell out of my world."

Despite not experiencing any bleeding, Néna had suffered a miscarriage. "It's called a blighted ovum, which means there's an issue with the egg. Basically your body still thinks you're pregnant, so it was still growing all the bits to support a baby that wasn't there," she explains. One in four pregnancies end in miscarriage – although the figure drops closer to one in ten for women in their 20s – but it's so rarely talked about that women often feel isolated and left in the dark when that loss strikes.

For Amy, who was 21 when she miscarried, the experience was more drawn out, but no less devastating. "I was only about 8 weeks pregnant and was on the train when I started having this pain – oh my god, it was terrible," she remembers.

By the end of her hour and a half journey Amy was losing blood, and went straight to the nearest hospital. "They kept telling me 'it's just your body getting used to you being pregnant', but I still knew something wasn't right. I was losing a lot more blood than I knew was normal – it was like I was having a period."

After "the longest 48 hours of my life, waiting for a scan", Amy was given the news she'd been dreading. "I think it's harder in your 20s because you don't have the life experience to know how to handle such a big thing," she says. "I had comments like 'lucky it happened sooner rather than later', and 'everything happens for a reason'. But what is the reason? Why? You become bitter."

It's so rarely talked about that women often feel isolated and left in the dark when that loss strikes

For both women, one of the hardest things about miscarrying so young was the isolation. "I didn't have anyone my own age to talk to about it. My friends were all still going out, going on holidays, whereas I was engaged and ready for a family – I was living that life instead," says Amy.

Néna had to distance herself from her pregnant best friend, but says she was really supportive. "I think she knew I couldn't necessarily be around her, but she popped around one day and left a box of bath stuff and a hot water bottle with a lovely note. She was brilliant, I'll never forget that," she says.

However, other friends that Néna had expected to understand said some of the most unhelpful things. "It's like a silent grief, but people don't get that – they'd say 'at least you know you can get pregnant', or 'my cousin had a stillbirth and that was worse.' The only thing you can say to a woman who has lost a baby is: 'That’s awful, I'm sorry.' Nothing makes you feel better," she says.

"Another friend fell pregnant a month or two later. I so wanted to be happy for her, but I was so unhappy for myself," Néna adds. "I don't think you ever get over it – even now. It was an awful thing to happen at an age when I should have been in my prime. These things shouldn't happen to someone that age but sadly they do, and nobody tells you until it happens."

Rachel was just 18 when she had her first miscarriage, and "just didn't think it would happen to me." Now 25, she's suffered a devastating 12 miscarriages over the last seven years. Each time it happened, Rachel says: "It was heart-breaking. I wanted to end my own life because I felt like I wasn’t a real woman. I kept thinking, 'what am I doing wrong? I was trying everything I could to have a baby."

She adds: "I didn't talk to anybody about it, even my partner. His way of dealing with it was working all the time, and I just blanked it out. People were always very nice to me, but they'd say things like 'you're so young, you've got so long' – but I wanted to choose when I would become a mum."

People would say things like 'you're so young, you've got so long' – but I wanted to choose when I would become a mum

After her first four miscarriages, Rachel gave birth to her daughter two-and-a-half years ago, and is due to marry her partner next year, but they've struggled to have another baby. "Sometimes I fall pregnant one month after another, and miscarry each time, sometimes I go a couple of years without falling pregnant, and that's worrying," she says. "We aren't trying at the moment, because it's too hard when it doesn't happen, but we're not not-trying. Hopefully one day I'll have another."

Néna also went on to have a baby 18 months ago, shortly after turning 30, but miscarried again when her son was just seven months old. "The physical side of that one was horrendous, but that desperation had gone because I had my baby," she says. "Even when motherhood's been hard I haven't cared, because I went through so much shit to get him that I'm going to savour every minute."

For Amy, who's now 32 weeks pregnant: "The thought of getting pregnant again [after the miscarriage] scared the life out of me. I couldn't relax and enjoy this pregnancy until about 18 weeks. I was being sick an awful lot and having spotting – so I kept thinking it was happening again," she says. "Now I know everything's fine and he's due in October. It will be a year on from when I had the miscarriage."

For support with miscarriage go to the Miscarriage Association or Tommy's #MisCOURAGE campaign.

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Congratulations! It’s your special day. You just got engaged (or married) and you’re jetting off to some fabulous destination to celebrate your love. You board your plane with confirmed economy-class seats and pray to the upgrade gods that your flight crew is so ecstatic about your newly minted union that they whisk you off to first class with champagne on ice, fine chocolates, and ample legroom. Of course, it's all on the house.

But is it actually possible to snag an upgrade, or is it just a far-fetched dream you fantasise about while a toddler-gone-wild kicks the back of your ordinary, cramped seat?

Most airlines are bound by operating manuals and a drive for revenue, so they're not likely to openly admit that they give upgrades to lovebirds flying with them, though some flight crews will unofficially offer special treats for couples travelling on their honeymoon.

There have been plenty of stories of couples popping the question at altitude or newlyweds getting thrilled at 30,000 feet (and one heartwarming story where a flight attendant ended up serving as the witness for two passengers getting married). There was also the recent story of a man who plotted with Austrian Airlines to both propose to and marry his now-wife inflight. They may not have been given a traditional seat upgrade, but they sure did enjoy the royal treatment.

“As for upgrades, customers are always welcome to ask, however, it very much depends on the bookings and availability. The Emirates cabin crew does make its best efforts to make the experience special for honeymooners,” said Emirates spokesperson Melanie Garvey.

Similarly, Hawaiian Airlines, which flies many lovebirds to their tropical honeymoon destinations, won’t admit to giving free upgrades, but spokesperson Alison Croyle relayed that it "always provides the aloha spirit to the many newlyweds travelling to our beautiful islands to celebrate their I Dos.”

That seemed to be the official sentiment of nearly every major airline that was asked to comment. While it’s not out of the question to snag an upgrade to business or first class, remember that there’s no secret formula to guarantee it — unless you fork over the dough to secure your premium seat.

That said, here are some tips to help increase your odds:

Be nice to your flight crew.

A little smile and salutation to your flight attendants can go a long way. They deal with irate people and tense circumstances all day, so if you’re the one in 1,000 who gives them a big, genuine smile and friendly greeting, it will only play in your favour. If you really want to score points, buying your flight crew a box of chocolates is one way to bolster your case for an upgrade. If you position the gift as “we’re so excited that we just got engaged and wanted to share the love,” they just might be more likely to go the extra mile for you.

Be a loyal flyer.

Airlines favour loyalty. Join a programme or two on the airlines you like best and try to fly those more frequently. If you have some miles stored up or a higher status, you’re more likely to be considered for an upgrade. And you might jump to the front of that list if it’s your honeymoon or special occasion.

Travel off-peak.

Some airlines are super-rigid when to comes to upgrades or even switching seats, regardless of how full the plane is, but if you fly on off-peak days and times (Tuesday afternoons and Saturday nights, for instance, when business travellers are less likely to fill the pricier seats), you might have better odds of landing an upgrade.

The verdict? There’s no secret formula when it comes to getting upgraded to luxury. It comes down to one part strategic positioning, one part kindness, and several parts luck.

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ITV switched off all seven of its channels at 9.30 a.m. on Saturday morning to encourage what is being billed as "the nation's biggest ever sports day."

Viewers who tuned into the channels were greeted by a holding screen which read: "Gone high-jumping, back at 10.30 a.m."

Named "I Am Team GB" in recognition of British athletes' recent success at the Olympics, the nationwide sports day is being laid on by the National Lottery, UK Sport and the British Olympic Association. Its aim is encourage more people to become physically active and get involved in sport, the BBC reports.

Double gold medal-winning gymnast Max Whitlock said that "hundreds of clubs and sporting venues across the UK" are taking part in the event today, the first Saturday after the Olympics, by opening their doors for free and "encouraging people to participate."

Further information is available at the I Am Team GB website, where people can type in their postcode and find out which local gyms and sports clubs are hosting free classes and events today.

Alongside Whitlock, Team GB medal winners including gymnast Amy Tinkler, rower Helen Glover and swimmer Jazz Carlin will all be dropping in at various I Am Team GB venues throughout the day.

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The Prime Minister has announced that she has ordered an "unprecedented audit" to tackle racial disparities within the UK's public services.

The audit's findings will be made public, the government said in a press release, to "give every person the ability to check how their race affects the way they are treated by public services" such as health, education and employment.

The findings, which will also be broken down by gender, geographic location and income, will ultimately be used in new government policy to solve these problems, the press release said.

Theresa May has ordered the audit shortly after a study published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission warned that government action is needed to tackle "deep-rooted racial inequality" in the UK which could "exacerbate divisions in our society." The study found that people in ethnic majority households are nearly twice as likely to be living in relative poverty than white people.

The study also found, shockingly, that a black woman living in the UK is seven times more likely to be detained under mental health legislation than a white woman.

"Today, I am launching an audit to look into racial disparities in our public services that stretches right across government," May said in the government's press release. "It will highlight the differences in outcomes for people of different backgrounds, in every area from health to education, childcare to welfare, employment, skills and criminal justice."

"This audit will reveal difficult truths, but we should not be apologetic about shining a light on injustices as never before," May added. "It is only by doing so we can make this country work for everyone, not just a privileged few."

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Transgender students and employees on University of North Carolina campuses can use the bathrooms that correspond to their gender identity, for now, the Associated Press reports. On Friday, a U.S. district judge placed a temporary injunction on the public university system's enforcement of HB2, the state's controversial "bathroom bill," on the basis that it likely violates Title IX protections against gender discrimination.

Temporary injunctions like this don't require plaintiffs to prove a violation has taken place. Rather, plaintiffs only need to offer enough compelling evidence that a violation may have occurred.

Two transgender students and a university employee, all represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, were the plaintiffs challenging the controversial legislation the North Carolina state government passed in March. Under HB2, people are legally required to use public restrooms that correspond to the biological sex on their birth certificates, rather than their gender identity.

U.S. District Judge Thomas Schroeder's injunction doesn't officially strike down the law; it only impacts restrooms on UNC campuses. Schroeder said that HB2 likely violated Title IX. He also wrote that under HB2, the three plaintiffs "will suffer irreparable harm in the absence of preliminary relief" and "an injunction is in the public interest."

Republican supporters of HB2 stood by their claim that allowing transgender people to use their preferred bathrooms could pose a public safety risk. In a statement responding to Judge Schroeder's injunction, North Carolina Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore defended HB2 as "commonsense protections to keep grown men out of bathrooms and showers with women and young girls."

The judge countered that logic in his ruling by noting other less-discriminatory laws already in place to protect restroom privacy.

"North Carolina's peeping and indecent exposure statutes continue to protect the privacy of citizens regardless of [the bathroom provision]," Schroeder wrote, "And there is no indication that a sexual predator could successfully claim transgender status as a defence against prosecution under these statutes."

For now, UNC employee and plaintiff Joaquin Carcano is relieved and energised to continue fighting.

"Today, the tightness that I have felt in my chest every day since HB2 passed has eased. But the fight is not over: we won't rest until this discriminatory law is defeated," Carcano told the Associated Press.

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Is there anything that makes women more irrationally angry than hen parties? Surely not. No one appreciates being forced to spend money on flights to a destination they had no previous interest in visiting. And surely no one really enjoys an itinerary of organised fun that includes male life drawing and questionably shaped straws.

Instead, keep it classy and organise a staycation. Gather your best friends, pick up as many bottles of Prosecco as you can carry, and head away for a weekend to a house where no one has to play host. Whether you’re looking for a rural retreat or an urban escape, the wonder that is Airbnb has got you covered. To save you trawling the site in search of the perfect abode, we’ve rounded up a selection of suitable properties - click through to find yours.

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Work has been tedious and the day was unusually hot. You arrive home in a sticky mess, dreaming of a refreshing shower. Except the door won’t open, because there's another fat envelope on the floor, jamming it shut. It’s not a whacking great electricity bill, but it might as well be. You can tell from the expensive finish of the paper that this is a wedding invitation. And it's the fifth you’ve received this year.

Weddings are supposed to be joyful celebrations. They’re a day when you can wear puffy clothes, go overboard on eye makeup, and drink upwards of five glasses of champagne before 3pm. But when every other weekend is spent schlepping from one end of the country to the other for one, or even jetting to the southern Mediterranean in a short enough spell of time to conserve your annual leave, well, the novelty can wear off.

According to research from Nationwide, weddings costs the average attendee £377. In Northern Ireland, the average spend for a guest (including the hen do and the main event), is even higher, at £476. Yes, being invited to a wedding feels exclusive, and yes, it’s tempting to avoid any drama and just RSVP in the affirmative, but what if you simply can't afford it?

Lucy, 29, decided enough was enough when eight of her weekends in a row were booked up last summer. “Four of the weddings I was super-stoked to go to. The rest were schoolfriends I literally hadn’t spoken to for about a decade and the odd cousin.” She was going out of a sense of duty and politeness.

Because many of the same people were going to be at the weddings, she also had to buy new dresses to each and gifts for the happy couple. “It coincided with me deciding to change my job and I had a period where I wasn’t earning. I decided to turn down all the family ones, just telling them that I couldn’t afford to attend. They were forgiving, and I sent a small present which was received well.”

However, it doesn’t always end there. One woman I talked to (who is still embarrassed about the incident three years later) was invited to Ibiza by a new boyfriend a week before her friend's wedding. Head over heels in love, she called in sick to the wedding, feigning some kind of gruesome stomach bug, and booked a flight to Ibiza. Her friend saw some of the pictures on Instagram, and didn’t speak for two years.

Confused about the best code of conduct when rejecting a wedding invitation, I sought expert advice. Debrett’s represents the height of authority when it comes to etiquette, and they confirm the most common reason for turning down a wedding invitation is cost. “Between travel, accommodation and childcare, not to mention a new outfit, attending a wedding can be an expensive proposition.”

A spokesperson for Debrett’s advised: “It’s better to decline politely than to attend out of obligation while worrying about the expense. Traditionally, a formal RSVP to a wedding invitation doesn’t require that you give a reason, and you can be equally circumspect if responding informally, while making it clear how sorry you’ll be to miss out on the day. Bear in mind, though, that according to tradition, those invited to a wedding should still give the couple a gift even if they’re unable to attend.”

Not wanting to go to a wedding can be about more than cost. Again, Debrett’s advises being tactful if there’s something at the wedding which could result in a problem. “There may be diplomatic reasons to consider: if the best man is your ex, for example, or you’re on particularly fractious terms with one of the bridesmaids, it may be wisest to stay away. The couple will no doubt be grateful for your tact rather than resentful of your absence.”

according to tradition, those invited to a wedding should still give the couple a gift even if they’re unable to attend

Jamie, 27, couldn’t face going to another wedding and didn’t have a good excuse not to attend. “She was a friend. I’d been really close to her at high school. I’d already spent about £500 on her hen party because she decided to have one abroad. It was about my free time too – she’d decided to get married on Friday to save money, but it meant taking a day’s leave. I only get 22 days off a year, so I just couldn’t face it. I sent her a private message and just said I was having a tough time, financially, and would she let me take her out for a meal?"

Jamie took her friend out for a meal, gave her a gift, and apologised in person. “I told her to share loads of pictures, and she understood where I was coming from. I reckon it’s better not being there, than showing up and being resentful.”

From a bride’s point of view, turning down a wedding invite is far better than just not showing up. The amount of time and money that goes into a wedding shouldn’t be taken for granted just because you’re feeling tired and don't want to show. RSVP in the negative so there’s no empty seat – that should save awkwardness and save the wedding couple £30.

After Helen, 55, got married a few years ago, she was left disappointed by a friend who simply didn’t show up. “One of my oldest friends simply forgot to come to our wedding. We had arranged a bed for the night with friends so the costs were not excessive. Needless to say we haven't spoken since. We had been friends for over 30 years at the time.”

As with everything in life, a little bit of courtesy goes a long way. Make your excuse in plenty of time, try to keep it honest, and, if the worst case scenario happens and you have to cancel on the day, make sure your letter is accompanied by the biggest bouquet of flowers possible, and an excessive gift.

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Girls was a wonderful roller coaster of a show that gave a bird's-eye view into the raw, questioning angst of twentysomething life within a certain set of (perhaps overeducated) urban females. But alas, the ride, like all good things, must come to an end.

The sixth and final season of Lena Dunham 's magnum opus is currently filming, and while — stealthy paparazzi photos aside — it's anyone's guess what will happen in the final scenes, one thing is certain: We will have to say goodbye to the characters we have come to know so well. Starting, it seems, with Shoshanna and Jessa.

Actresses Zosia Mamet and Jemima Kirke, who play the aforementioned characters, were the first to wrap their final scenes on the series. Thanks to a little thing called Instagram, we get to come along for some of their last moments on set. And if you think bidding adieu to Shoshanna and Jessa will be hard for you, take heart in knowing that you're far from alone. Their co-stars are crying right along with you — complete with sad emoji, of course.

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Cara Delevingne is encouraging women to speak more openly about their vaginas by fronting this year's Lady Garden Campaign from the Gynaecological Cancer Fund.

The campaign's aim is to remove what Delevingne calls the "taboo surrounding vaginas" so that women are more comfortable discussing symptoms which could point to one of the five forms of gynaecological cancer: ovarian, uterine/endometrial, cervical, vaginal and vulval.

"At the end of the day, speaking up is more important than being embarrassed," she tells The Sunday Times' Style magazine. "This is about saving lives - there's no time for shame." As Style reports, in the UK each year an estimated 74,000 women are diagnosed with precancerous cervical cells.

To help publicise the campaign, the Gynaecological Cancer Fund has teamed up with Topshop to create a range of Lady Garden joggers and hoodies. Priced at £28 each, they go on sale in store and on Topshop's website on the 8th of September, with 30% of proceeds going to the charity.

Delevingne shared a video of herself wearing one of the hoodies on Instagram yesterday, tagging the post with the campaign's #SilentNoMore hashtag.

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Facebook may be trying to get rid of any alleged bias in its recently controversial Trending Topics feature by getting rid of the human oversight that may have caused bias in the first place.

According to The AP, Facebook will be significantly reducing the role of editors in programming the trending section, which came under fire earlier this year after a Gizmodo article accused the social-media giant of suppressing stories of interest to conservative users. Mark Zuckerberg responded emphatically at the time, assuring users that both he and the company were absolutely "committed to building a platform for all ideas."

Topics appearing in the trending section of Facebook are selected by an algorithm that considers how often they are posted or shared. Moving forward, these trending lists will still be reviewed by editors, but the features themselves will no longer include headlines or summaries written by people. Instead, Facebook will now show each subject along with the number of people currently discussing it, a selection of user comments, and an excerpt from the news article.

"Our goal is to enable Trending for as many people as possible, which would be hard to do if we relied solely on summarising topics by hand," the company explained in a statement posted to its newsroom. "A more algorithmically driven process allows us to scale Trending to cover more topics and make it available to more people globally over time."

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When I’m stressed, I react the same way each time. First, I can’t sleep. Then, I talk to anyone who will listen about the problem – friends, relatives, the person at the Food and Wine shop near my house who knows me as ‘Twix Lady’. Then, after a crescendo of crying over something insignificant, I figure out what the root cause is, usually thanks to some oddly sage advice from the man who calls me Twix Lady, and do something about it. A couple of months later, the cycle beings again.

I wish I could tell you what my boyfriend is like when he’s stressed, but he doesn’t really talk about it. And when he does, it’s after he’s sorted out the problem. While this is common to all male friends and boyfriends I've ever had, I don't feel I can speak on behalf of every human on the planet – except to say that men and women seeming to deal with stress differently is a thing.

Speak to anyone (and I spoke to a fair few) and they’ll agree. Take Gabby, 28 who works in London:

“[When I’m stressed] I want to talk loads about it. LOADS," she told me. "To the point where things get very out of control and we end up discussing entirely different issues because I'm unable to differentiate between the impact of my work being tricky and my boyfriend leaving his badminton bag on the kitchen table. He, on the other hand, wants no fuss, lots of space, a five second, comforting, effective cuddle into my chest, and NOT TO TALK ABOUT IT.”

But how much of this 'let it out/bottle it up' cliché is embedded into our make-up? Do men and women really cope with stress differently on a physiological level?

According to Professor Robert Sapolsky of Stanford University, who headed recent research on the physiological differences between the stress responses in men and women, a significant amount of it comes down to hormones.

When women are under pressure, they release Cortisol, Epinephrine and Oxytocin during the stress response. Cortisol and Epinephrine together raise your blood pressure and circulate blood sugar.

"People used to think there was a difference in the amounts of Cortisol released during a stressful situation in women," Prof. Sapolsky says. "The thinking was women released more of this hormone, and that produced all sorts of nutty theories about women being emotional."

In fact, according to research, there is exactly the same amount of Cortisol released in male brains as female brains. The difference is Oxytocin, which counteracts the other two hormones by creating nurturing and relaxing emotions.

Women tend to nurture and protect those around them, while also forming social alliances – basically, reaching out to your mates – as an initial stress response.

Turns out, women secrete a lot more of this than men, creating what an influential study titled A New Stress Paradigm For Women, published in 2000, calls ‘tend and befriend’. The fight-or-flight response that people bang on about has often been seen as the typical human response to stress, but this new study argued that almost all of the stress studies in the past had been conducted on men. So it's actually a typical male response.

When female participants were studied, they found that women tend to nurture and protect those around them, while also forming social alliances – basically, reaching out to your mates – as an initial stress response.

“Women may be better at seeking and giving support, but because of this, they can trip themselves up. They tend to over-invest a lot more than men do, which can cause anxiety, stress, and depression," says Dr. Almuth McDowell, senior lecturer in Organisational Psychology at Birkbeck University.

While production goes some way to explaining it, there are other factors too. Studies have consistently shown that women are better at (at least some) aspects of emotional intelligence than men, and that men are, in general, less able to self-analyse, but more able to compartmentalise and rationalise.

"Men aren’t as good at recognising things within themselves," says Dr. McDowell. "I do a lot of research with the police which is, as you can imagine, a male-dominated and fairly macho culture, and what tends to happen is, when men are under stress and they have to be signed off, they are off for a long time. They’ve usually left it far too long to raise their hand and say they’re struggling."

This inability to recognise what 'too stressed' feels like is tragically reflected in the high instances of male suicide (the male suicide rate is now three times the female rate) and is often thought to also be a product of what’s known as 'stereotyping'.

Stereotyping is something that affects both sexes. Women grow up inundated with images of how female friendships should be, from Sex and the City (if you’re as old as I am) through to cream cheese ads featuring women sat around a table in angel wings gossiping about men. We're taught that women talk to their friends about their problems (often using pink landlines and three-way conference calls), and men don’t, or can't. Think of the stereotypical dad trying to give his son a talk on the facts of life, saying about three words and giving up. Or the stereotypical teenage boy who is awkward about talking to his mates about girls he likes. Think about the stereotypical teenage girl running to her mum when she has her first period. Or if not her mum, her female friends.

"We play these roles," says Dr. McDowell. "That's the hard thing. We grow up and we assume roles that we've seen others taking on, that we feel we need to take on. If you look at the workplace, which is where stress often runs high, research shows we associate certain attributes with males, including good organisation, assertiveness, asking for promotions. But men and women think the same things."

"If you look across the board, research suggests that men get clearer roles. In Politics, women are more likely to be given swing seats when they’re standing for elections than men," says Dr. McDowell. "This is changing, for the better, but this persistent inequality just makes it slightly harder and more stressful for women, as they're always on the back foot, or perceiving that they are."

A friend of mine has a rule that when she is the only woman in a male-dominated meeting, she has to say something relevant or important within the first five minutes, to establish herself, otherwise she feels her confidence drops and her voice gets trampled on. And whether or not this is the case, the fact that it's a trick women are having to employ, shows that sometimes we do have to work that little bit harder to get to where the guys are.

So do women and men get stressed out in different ways? Hormonally, yes. Environmentally, yes. And thanks to that ever-improving but frustratingly elusive gap in the workplace, women still have to deal with a little more stress than our male colleagues. But at least we're dealing with it while dosed up with Oxytocin.

Neither men nor women deal 'better' with stress – that's the take away here – but it's true that we're pretty different, on the whole, with what it does to our bodies and brains.

Maybe we'd do well to try and learn from each other? I'll think about that next time I'm curled in a ball yelling, "WHY AM I THE ONLY ONE IN THIS RELATIONSHIP WHO CURLS INTO A BALL?"

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