Rebecca Smithers, consumer affairs correspondent Traffic-light labelling allows consumers to see how much salt and fat are in products. Photograph: PA Inconsistent and confusing labels on best-selling sandwiches on the high street are making
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Open thread The number of days taken off sick by working adults in the UK has fallen to four and a half. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA Good news for UK employers: employees are calling in
Hundreds of skulls are stacked at a memorial for victims of genocide in Nyamata. Photograph: Saurabh Das/AP
A genetic variant associated with an enhanced capacity for emotional memories is also linked to increased susceptibility
Queens Park Rangers’ Joey Barton clashes with Manchester City’s Carlos Tevez during a Premier League game at the Etihad stadium. Photograph: Carl Recine/Action Images ‘Learn from Wayne Rooney.” This is what Joey Barton –
Laura Barton Sales of hand sanitisers rose 71% in 24 weeks during the 2009 swine flu outbreak. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Bakersfield, California, is a large city about 100 miles north of
David Batty Hairdresser Vidal Sassoon in Los Angeles with Ronnie, his fourth wife. Photograph: Richard Young / Rex Features Celebrity hair stylist Vidal Sassoon, who revolutionised women’s cuts in the 1960s with his sharp
Sue Blackmore Deepak Chopra believes ‘the effect of meditation on the enzyme telomerase … has the power to slow ageing’. Photograph: Mark Peterson/Corbis Deepak Chopra is “very wealthy”. He told me so himself, leaping
Sue Blackmore Deepak Chopra believes ‘the effect of meditation on the enzyme telomerase … has the power to slow ageing’. Photograph: Mark Peterson/Corbis Deepak Chopra is “very wealthy”. He told me so himself, leaping
Luisa Dillner The pill is not as effective as many women think. Photograph: Stockbyte/Getty Images People often think that their contraception is more reliable than it actually is, according to research published in the
Oliver Burkeman Get in gear with your gadgets. Illustration: Nick Lowndes Technology was supposed to make things simpler. That, of course, was the famous promise of those now-laughable 1960s predictions about life in the
