45 m. ago Weekend Wishlist: 9 fashion and beauty picks to kick off September in style

Here are all the items that we're obsessed with - including buys from Free People, Medik8 and H&M

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4 d. ago Doctor reveals 'sudden and almost obsessive craving for a certain type of food' people often experience three months before cancer diagnosis

Research has also suggested food cravings may be associated with certain cancers including breast, ovarian and endometrial.

Science

1 week ago Don’t let Donald Trump undermine your faith in the climate fight | Gina McCarthy

The president’s fossil-fuel obsession can’t stop global progress, writes the former Environmental Protection Agency headOver the past decade, the United States has turned technologies into tools that strengthened our economy, delivered good-paying union jobs, cleaned up our air and water, conserved our precious natural resources, and saved families money all across our country. Yet now the country is choosing to cede that leadership, letting China dominate and control the clean-energy market across the world. It’s no surprise that people are scratching their heads, wondering what happened.Our president is obsessed with fossil fuels. He wants to resuscitate what everyone knows is a dying coal sector while turning a blind eye to the health, environmental, and economic downsides of the climate crisis. Coupled with inconsistent threats of increased tariffs against virtually all our allies, he has isolated the US and amplified threats to global security.Gina McCarthy is the managing co-c...

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1 week ago Grinning teen with an unhealthy obsession with knives is jailed for life for murder after plunging Rambo

Charles Hartle had a fixation with knives and killing people he believed to be opponents and a dangerous obsession with gang culture, a court heard.

Events

2 w. ago A Noble Madness by James Delbourgo review – the dark side of collecting

From jewellery to the Parthenon marbles, why do people collect things? And what happens when interest tips into obsession?James Delbourgo, a professor of history at Rutgers University, New Jersey, says that his latest work is less a book about collecting than it is about the “cultural idea” of collecting. Does this need illuminating? Hasn’t collecting long been seen as one of the more refined arts? A way for the educated and wealthy to show off their learning, taste, urbanity? Collectors escape the shackles of the present, throw lifelines to a disappearing past, replenish the future. Sure, says Delbourgo. But he is also interested in telling the story of how – through the ages and across continents, in the popular and sometimes political imagination – collectors have been seen as introverts and perverts, as thieves and predators, as enemies of the humanity and humanism they espouse.The major religions have always been suspicious about collecting, which they associate ...

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3 w. ago Bride's 'genius' matchmaking idea for wedding guests has people 'obsessed'

Single wedding guests loved the look of the matchmaking scheme devised by a bride and groom

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3 w. ago Bride slammed for 'tacky' and 'cringe' note to wedding guests ahead of the big day: 'Horrible idea'

A bride-to-be has been 'torn apart' over a 'tacky' and 'cringe' note she sent out to guests who declined her wedding invitation or failed to RSVP on time.

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