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The mercury is expected to soar across the country with large swathes of Canada facing a heat wave this week. But it’s not just humans who feel the heat —…

Holidaymakers have been advised to carry out amateur detective work to ensure they do not book into fake accommodation this summer, as research showed a third of travellers had seen…

Western Europe is currently being scorched by the most severe heatwave in its history. The brutal temperatures have resulted in more than 1,000 schools across the UK being forced to…

School’s (almost) out … and with a long summer stretching ahead, we want you to share fun activities that will help others fill the family diary. We’d love to hear…

I’ve always secretly believed I might be incredible with a bow and arrow. Not because I have great aim, or good hand-eye coordination or an aptitude for sport, but because…

A glass of wine might help you fall asleep, but it won’t help you stay asleep. Prescription and over-the-counter sleeping pills have side effects. But what, if any, are the…

I have a core caponata memory, and it doesn’t take place in Italy. It was during my first visit to the Globe theatre in London, which all felt very magical:…

Driving down an endless string of identical roundabouts in the dead heat with hardly a human in sight, you see robots roving around on grassy pavements, whizzing past obstacles to…

Doctors are urging people to seek medical attention if they have any contact with bats to prevent potential rabies infection. In Monday’s issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, infectious…

Good news, fellow parents: our children may have laid waste to our finances, pelvic integrity and circadian rhythms, and mocked our new sandals so devastatingly we can never wear them…

If Dua Lipa’s Chanel wedding dress was among the most anticipated fashion moments this summer, her new husband Callum Turner’s wardrobe is proving just as influential. But forget the bespoke…

When he was 61, Mike Bell, who had spent eight years living with a Parkinson’s diagnosis, saw a new consultant. Though he still had pains, tingling, tremors and skin problems,…

Sunscreen does two important jobs. It is largely used for its UVB protection benefits – blocking the rays that cause sunburn and are a major contributor to the development of skin…

Halfway across the first glacial depression, I leave the footpath to stand on a snow patch, disturbing a spider that runs off across the frozen crystals. A few yards farther along, the…

If bread is the main staple of Lebanese cooking, grains and legumes are next, and there is hardly a meal without one or the other. Bulgur wheat is the preferred…

Dr Steven Montgomery, BMA’s Northern Ireland resident doctors committee chair, said the “better pay and better working conditions on offer in other countries means we are losing doctors when we…

Writing on social media, alongside a picture of herself at the summit of Ben Nevis, she said: “Cancer doesn’t just affect the body. “It changes how you think and feel…

The waiting room outside the hepatology clinic at Rajagiri Hospital in Kochi is suspended between hope and despair. One man stares silently at the floor, weakened by advanced liver disease…

Over a third of the children were still waiting for treatment, with more than 60,000 waiting over two years for help – an increase from over 44,000 children the previous…

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…

On a quiet summer morning, above a small mid-western town, an American flag is waving in the breeze. The camera cuts to a father helping his son at the wheel…

Despite what you might have heard, building wealth is not simply a matter of depriving yourself of lattes and avocado toast. In fact, a new generation of finance experts –…

Why does silence feel so horribly awkward? Ruth Thompson, by email Send new questions to nq@theguardian.com. Readers reply It’s funny, people seem to have different levels of tolerance to it….

I consider myself a broadly live-and-let-live sort. I don’t eat animals and treat my garden as a habitat for wildlife, including greenfly, blackfly and the slugs eating all my strawberries….

Two days after giving birth, Juliana Nascimento Barbosa is still ecstatic about becoming a mother. “I’m so happy to have my baby,” she says from her bed in Queen’s hospital…

I love the calm of kayaking. I enjoy being close to the water, the soft slap of waves against the hull, the sound of birds in the trees, and the…

Francis Tolu is a freestyle pizza champion. For those who don’t know what that is, he uses pizza dough to compete in acrobatic performances. He can make pizza blindfolded; he…

Sudan in the 1980s was relatively quiet. In 1987 I was based there, working for aid agency Care in the final years before Omar al-Bashir seized power. One day I…

Hydration is important. In temperatures like those we’re increasingly seeing in much of the world, sweating can be the only way for our bodies to cool down, and our thirst…