In series eight of Peep Show, Mark (David Mitchell) is working as a salesman in a bathroom shop when a customer asks him for a “modern but traditional” bathroom. Aghast,…
I hate packing a suitcase. As a perennial overpacker, the problem is twofold: it takes me forever, and once I get to my destination, I have an awful time organizing…
After a week of outages, hundreds of millions of students’ data stolen, delayed assignment due dates, and school login pages being defaced by hackers, US tech firm Instructure – which…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size British Columbia’s top doctor is set to provide an update Saturday on a group of Canadians isolating after returning from an Antarctic…
Frances on Eddie What were you hoping for?A lovely evening with pleasant company. First impressions?Eddie looked much younger and fitter than I had expected. He had bought me flowers and…
It’s still light out when my wife comes to me with bad news. “It’s bin day,” she says. These days this means dragging the bins up the back steps, through…
Born in Essex, Alex Hassell, 45, trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He co-founded an experimental theatre group and was noticed by the RSC where he went on to star…
Alahattin Kanlioğlu had worked in the faculty of communications at Ege University in Izmir, Turkey, for more than two decades before he took this image. A photography specialist, he first…
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Piers had been in China for all of two days in 2009 when he was used as a “white monkey” for the first time. He had travelled to a village…
Some people think we are odd for swimming in the Thames. “Isn’t it cold?” they ask with a shiver, like they are the ones who just took the plunge. Er,…
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1.Joey, 3, asks: is there a mummy and a baby longlegs? Reveal 2.Talia, 5, asks: how do cobras get their fangs? Reveal 3.Aurelia, 7, asks: why are no two tigers’…
The questions 1 Where did the Zhurong vehicle take a selfie in 2021?2 Which artist claimed “the most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald’s”? 3 Which record company’s HQ had…
I didn’t think The Devil Wears Prada 2 would make me cry, but it did. All the fashiony high camp, all the sharp one-liners of the first movie (“By all…
When Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met for a welcome ceremony in Tiananmen Square this week with the world’s gaze on them, they mirrored one another in strikingly similar suits….
Don’t overthink it. That’s the key to summer style. The best looks are the ones you reach for when you aren’t thinking about clothes, but about the sunny weather, the…
Who hasn’t opened a bathroom cupboard on a cleaning spree, scanned the shelves of half-full volumiser, long-forgotten eye shadow palettes and blunt razors and tossed them in the bin –…
Maticevski Photograph: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images Designer Toni Maticevski says the layers of silver leaves on this garment took “weeks of work” to prepare. The silhouette on the other hand, “just…
Years ago, my best friend fell in love with a man I disliked. He had a habit of looking over my shoulder when I tried to talk to him, and…
The Cannes red carpet is, without question, a home of glamour. But in 2026 that glamour has a different spin. The women gaining the most headlines for style are, for…
The term “solar energy” may immediately conjure images of solar panels, but you don’t need to convert sunlight to electricity to harness its power. As a self-professed solar nerd, I’ve…
A study in the journal Pediatrics has found that American teenagers are sleeping less than ever before. Researchers found a consistent decline in sleep across every age category, with the…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has issued a notice to Canadian consumers about reports of outbreaks of pseudorabies in commercial swine in…
Andy Burnham outside his house in Warrington, Cheshire. Politicians, as we know, love a metaphor. But do they have to be so literal? No sooner had the Greater Manchester mayor,…
The letter (8 May) responding to Zoe Williams’ article about scattering her mum’s ashes brought back fond memories of Dad. He was a farmer and always carried a red spotted…
With warm, sunny days filling the forecast, many of us are digging through long-neglected bins of outdoor gear … to discover the hole-ridden hiking socks, worn out boots and broken…
The Bafta-winning actor Katherine Parkinson has lauded the television series Rivals for its “radical” depiction of sex from a woman’s perspective. Speaking at a preview screening in Bristol, where much…
Instead of a customary biscuit or a chocolate bar to combat the 4pm slump, people are reaching for a more natural sweet alternative: dates. The sweet fruit has been thrust…
A daiquiri is a cocktail that shows just how far you can get with only three ingredients: rum, sugar and lime. Our version includes fresh shiso leaves for herbal notes…