Living with PMDD is like having the Grim Reaper visit every month
Women diagnosed with premenstrual dysphoric disorder discuss how it impacts their lives. Source link
Tell us about your favourite family summer holiday | Travel
What makes the perfect family holiday? Whether you travelled with toddlers, teenagers or as part of a multi-generational group, tell us about the choice of destination and fun activities that…
BA’s ‘no-show’ clause cost me £9,000 for new flights | Money
To celebrate my 60th birthday, we used an inheritance to book flights from Glasgow to Mexico City via Heathrow, where our son was to join us. We worried that the…
After dinosaurs, it’s spot the dog! But can a child really learn anything in a gallery? | Art and design
Neil Osborne and his three-year-old daughter Daisy are peering at a small, shimmering painting by JMW Turner of foaming waves crashing against a cliff. It’s their second visit to the…
The best Memorial Day 2026 sales: Nine deals from from brands we know and trust | Life and style
Memorial Day is many things: above all, a holiday to honor US military personnel fallen in the line of duty, but unofficially also the start of summer, and for savvy…
My rookie era: In my 30s, I went for my driver’s licence test – and failed four times | Transport
Last year, at the age of 35, I decided it was time to grow up and get my driver’s licence. I had considered it before, but it had never stuck….
The French are hitting their protein goals – thanks to a cheese that looks like ectoplasm | Emma Beddington
Exciting news from over the Channel: a viral cheese has dropped, but good luck spelling, or saying, it. As Libération reports, la cancoillotte (even native speakers struggle with the pronunciation, apparently),…
Georgina Hayden’s quick and easy recipe for panko chicken with green bean salad | Chicken
This is my current speedy weeknight favourite, and hits so many of my wishlist requirements. The flavours are intense – salty, sweet, a little spicy (I love to finish it…
For sale: one cute baby gibbon – mother probably killed by poachers | Endangered species
It is a cool morning in Thailand’s hilly north, and a wildlife officer sits on the veranda of Omkoi wildlife sanctuary’s office. On her lap is a wide-eyed infant primate…
Kenji Morimoto’s recipes for asparagus kimchi | Food
Spring always reminds me of the diversity of kimchi. As some of my favourite produce comes into season, asparagus is easily at the top of the list, and turning it…
A new start after 60: I dedicated myself 100% to saving soil – and a life of wild adventure began | Life and style
Sousan Samadani was watching videos on YouTube one day when she came across a post about how the world’s soil was degrading so rapidly that it was in danger of…
Is it true that … saunas can reduce your sperm count? | Life and style
Could your post-gym spa habit affect your ability to have a baby? It’s a belief that gets repeated regularly online. But Prof Colin Duncan, a fertility expert at the University of Edinburgh, says things aren’t…
After three days here I felt like an Olympic athlete: the Montenegro hotel designed for fitness and wellbeing | Montenegro holidays
I was lying on a bed with no trousers on. A young man helped me into some crotch-high boots and zipped them up. He turned the lights down low, put…
Preppy polo players, timeless tuxedos and … fishing rods: the history of the Ralph Lauren catwalk – in pictures | Fashion
Ralph Lauren the brand turns 60 next year, with the designer himself now in his ninth decade. A new book, Ralph Lauren: Catwalk, written by veteran fashion journalist Bridget Foley,…
How to become emotionally mature – at any age: ‘We often don’t realise the hurt we’re causing’ | Life and style
Around the time of the pandemic, a self-help book with a somewhat unglamorous but functional title – Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents – took off on social media. It…
'New cancer test makes me feel women's health matters'
A patient praises a new test for womb cancer being trialled at hospitals in Suffolk and Essex. Source link
Canadian from hantavirus-hit cruise ship tests positive
The individual is one of four former passengers on the MV Hondius isolating on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Source link
New sleeper service will run from Paris to Berlin next year | Rail travel
The resurgence of sleeper trains on the continent hit a kink in the tracks in September, when the Austrian state operator ÖBB announced that it would be axing its two…
I took my kids to Lapland on the Santa Claus Express – but would the big man deliver? | Lapland holidays
Christmas was only a few days away and the Finnish capital of Helsinki was ringing with festive cheer as we explored the Tuomaan Markkinat in Senate Square, sipping from mugs…
Slow train to Turin: a winter journey through the Swiss Alps to Italy | Turin holidays
Is there a better sensation for a traveller than when a train speeds out of a tunnel? The sudden flood of light, that howling rush of air. Clearly, it’s not…
I submitted my day to fate – and plunged headfirst into bananas and burpees | Emma Beddington
How predictable is your life? I drink my coffee from the same Moomin mug every morning and run a tight roster of weekly meals. My Ocado order never varies. On…
You’re supposed to be quiet in the cinema. So why are the snacks so loud? | Life and style
Cinemagoers are expected to maintain a respectful hush, lest they ruin the experience for anyone else. Yet most cinema grub is distractingly noisy: tubs of popcorn, bags of sweets, crunchy…
Readers reply: Which organisms are most beneficial to humans without us realising? | Life and style
I was recently beset by a plague of clothes moths. After hours of research, I discovered the miracle that is the parasitic wasp, or Trichogramma evanescens – near-microscopic beasts that…
Seven essential gadgets to live with when you have back pain, from grabbers to lap desks | Health & wellbeing
Like 39% of the US population, I have back pain. It was my cat’s fault: while reaching down to pick up some cat fluff, one of the discs in my…
Rowing through the fog: how to increase your tolerance for uncertainty | Well actually
Simone Stolzoff describes himself as “naturally an uncertain person” inclined to rumination and self-doubt. This tendency benefits him in his work as a journalist, but can otherwise be a double-edged…
First Canadian hantavirus case confirmed in B.C. patient
The first case of Andes hantavirus in Canada has been confirmed, public health officials say, following testing of a presumptive case in British Columbia. On Saturday, B.C. provincial health officer…
The kindness of strangers: A driver warned me I was being followed, then made sure I got home safely | Women
The Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst was not a safe place in the 1980s. There was this jittery vibe when the next heroin batch was coming in and people were overdosing…
WHO declares Ebola outbreak in Congo, Uganda a global health emergency – National
The World Health Organization declared the Ebola disease outbreak caused by a rare virus in Congo and neighboring Uganda a public health emergency of international concern on Sunday, after more…
What is this ‘blue dot fever’ and why is the music industry afflicted with it? – National
As the Andes version of hantavirus continues to cause concern among health officials, the music industry is monitoring what’s being called “blue dot fever.” It’s nothing biological, nor will it…
Ellie Simmonds looks back: ‘Without swimming, my mum says I would probably have ended up in jail!’ | Ellie Simmonds
Ellie Simmonds in 1998 and 2006, sitting on a little toy car on grassEllie Simmonds in 1998 and 2026. Later photograph: Pål Hansen/The Guardian. Styling: Andie Redman. Hair and makeup:…