12 h. ago Is your posture ageing you? Modern life is turning us all into hunchbacks 

Years of hunching over smartphones takes its toll. But the good news is you can realign your spine at any age - just look to the laid-back stance of a three-year-old

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3 d. ago Working families and caregivers facing ‘perfect storm’ of pressures

Working parents and carers face a perfect storm of economic pressures, rising care demands and workplace cultures that no longer reflect the realities of modern family life, a new report warns.

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6 d. ago A Victorian terraced house in East London reconfigured for modern family life

A Victorian terraced house in East London reconfigured for modern family life  House & Garden

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8 d. ago 'Prettiest ever' village bans key thing and it's like stepping back in time

It has been called Lancashire's 'most beautiful village', and it's easy to see - the picturesque spot is so well-kept it feels a world away from modern life

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9 d. ago Bug review – Carrie Coon brings intensity to paranoid Tracy Letts revival

Samuel J Friedman Theatre, New YorkThe White Lotus and Gilded Age actor takes on her real-life husband Tracy Letts’ 1996 thriller, which could have afforded some modern-day tweaksYou can practically smell the stale cigarette smoke lingering in the air of the fake motel set for Bug. It’s the play’s only location – though it appears in a distinctive second guise in the second act – and in its staging at the Samuel J Friedman Theatre, the set comes to a corner in the center of the stage, jutting out toward the audience. The additional angle gives the room a little more depth, but it also distorts the room’s geography, rendering it neither proscenium neat nor fully realistic. That’s the increasingly hard-to-recognize world that Agnes (Carrie Coon) inhabits when she brings near-stranger Peter (Namir Smallwood) into her life.Agnes is a waitress living out of the motel, drinking and taking drugs in between shifts. Her abusive ex, Jerry (Steve Key), just out of prison, lurks around, expecti...

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1 week ago Man who threw boy, 6, off Tate Modern balcony learns fate after 'clawing' nurse

Jonty Bravery, 24, was jailed for life in 2020 for throwing a six-year-old from Tate Modern's 10th-storey balcony - now he's been sentenced for assaulting nurses

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1 week ago The travel systems parents keep recommending – and why they work day to day

Modern, compact, and safe these travel system bundles make life easier for parents.

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2 w. ago Ancient meditation practices find new life in modern religious communities across America

Meditation has been a common feature for eons in religious traditions from Buddhism to yoga, which originated as an ancient spiritual practice in India rooted in Hindu philosophy

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3 w. ago RAKIB EHSAN: Equalities chief is divorced from the realities of life in modern Britain

Two weeks ago, a 15-year-old British schoolgirl from Leamington Spa stood up in court and told the judge: 'The day I was raped changed me as a person. Now every time I go out I don't feel safe.'

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