In Isolating Times, Can Robo-Pets Provide Comfort?
As seniors find themselves cut off from loved ones during the pandemic, some are turning to automated animals for company. Read more...
Should you ditch energy giants as the age of oil ends?
All this presents a dilemma for investors. Many of us have large chunks of our portfolios invested in the oil and gas sector - often via income funds, which typically hold shares in BP and Shell. Read more...
An Editors Note on the Trump Tax Investigation
The New York Times has examined decades of President Trumps financial records, assembling the most comprehensive picture yet of his business dealings. Read more...
Tiles
Our soothing matching game may help you de-stress. Read more...
Struggle to nod off? These are the best sleep retreats in the UK
Here we round-up the best places to stay in the UK for a quality night's sleep. The list includes a luxury sleep retreat near Bath and a futurist hotel in London offering sound-insulating 'cocoons'. Read more...
La Liga, Shaken by Second Wave of Virus, Enlists Players39; Kids as Messengers
Facing a long season and a new wave of infections, Spanish soccer officials turned to fans, businesses and even players children to warn players about Covid-19. Read more...
Eat to beat disease The tasty ways to boost your heart and brain
JANE CLARKE Inflammation is our body's own warning system, a sign that there's a problem, such as an infection or an injury, and that our natural defences are needed to help fix it. Read more...
This Spinach-Potato Pie Feels Like a Hug
This reassuring dish is just what we need right now, Yotam Ottolenghi writes. Read more...
Nadia Sawalha, 53, pokes fun at Gwyneth Paltrow's 48th birthday snap by stripping naked
The Loose Women star, 53, stripped naked to pose for a snap in her own garden, brandishing a box of Lurpak spread after Gwyneth credited her own body butter with giving her confidence to bare all. Read more...
Benefits claimants
In common with other newspapers, an article on 11 February reported official Department of Work and Pensions figures which suggested that 68 per cent of incapacity claimants were receiving benefits despite being fit for work. While 29 per cent were found fit for work straight away, the other 39 per cent were assessed as being unable to work now but able to work in the foreseeable future. We are happy to clarify the position. Read more...
Lesbian couple slam Facebook after video of touching foreheads was BANNED
Singer-songwriter Sera Golding-Young, from Guildford, and her wife Frankie, posted an advert which was banned for violating Facebook's Community Standards rules. Read more...
Lead suspect in assassination of Rafik Hariri, Lebanon's ex-PM, found guilty
The lead suspect in the 2005 bombing that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was convicted at a tribunal in the Netherlands on Tuesday. Read more...
Covid kills one million worldwide Coronavirus has now spread to 210 countries
Coronavirus has claimed the lives of one million people worldwide since the outbreak emerged in China late last year. Read more...
Vegan parents who starved their baby of nutrients avoid jail
The one-year-old girl from Victoria was fed a homemade formula of coconut water and powders that left her with cerebral palsy caused from malnutrition. Read more...
Dance on Film Is the Only Game in Town. BalletX Takes the Field.
This Philadelphia company has released four new works that engage the medium by pairing choreographers with filmmakers. Read more...
Covid-19 was the 24th most common cause of death in England last month
Official data shows more people died of Alzheimer's, heart disease, cancerous lung, colon or rectum tumours, and the flu than they did of the coronavirus in England and Wales. Read more...
No, they're not in training for I'm A Celebrity... they're just going to school
The school run can be a real balancing act for these children. These determined school pupils balance on a high wire 30-feet above a river from Batu Busuk village in Sumatra, Indonesia. Read more...
To Fight Apple and Google, Smaller App Rivals Organize a Coalition
Spotify, Match Group, Epic Games and others have created a nonprofit alliance that they hope will amplify a protest against the power of the giants. Read more...