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  • Sienna Miller models clothes from her collaboration with M&S.

    ‘I felt self conscious and ashamed’
    Sienna Miller on tabloid intrusion – and why she can’t bear boho chic

    Seven years ago, traumatised by the press, the actor and style icon left the UK for New York. Now she’s back, starring in epic westerns and collaborating on a new fashion collection
  • Three young people smiling

    ‘You can do anything here!’
    Why Lithuania is the best place in the world to be young

    University is free for most students, the economy is thriving and the club scene is hot. Is it any wonder young people in Vilnius are smiling?
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    Nigel Slater's midweek dinner
    Peas, rice and basil

    A particularly vibrant, vivid, herby green dish
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    Hot heads
    13 unwritten rules for spice lovers

    From no-go restaurants to having a shelf in your cupboard dedicated to chilli-infused condiments – being a spice connoisseur comes with its own code of conduct
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    • Bodø viewed from the mountain plateau of Keiservarden.

      Art in the Arctic
      Exploring Bodø, Norway, European capital of culture for 2024

    • Harriet Mansell - Vegetarian Summer Spread 037

      Stuffed flatbreads and butterbean dip
      Harriet Mansell’s vegetarian summer spread

    • Woman in an office being beset by demands from her fellow workers.

      Pass notes
      Stress bragging: why workload boasts are bad for you – and your colleagues

    • Tamal Ray’s Szechuan lasagne and chard.

      Where east meets west
      Tamal Ray’s recipe for Sichuan-style lasagne

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Fashion

  • A composite of different male models wearing a trainers

    Pounding the pavement
    25 of the best men’s trainers – in pictures

    Bounce into summer in the brightest and boldest kicks
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    The beauty spot
    Bronzers: 10 of the best

  • Shein logo and its web shop

    Shein
    Fashion group poised to file paperwork for £50bn London listing

  • A model wearing a hot pink and orange crocket knit dress sitting down in front of a pale pink wall

    We love
    Fashion fixes for the week ahead – in pictures

  • A model wears a dress from The Vampire’s Wife and H&M.

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on The Vampire’s Wife: fashion that captured the zeitgeist

  • Tim Dowling in a short-sleeved striped polo against a wall holding a football under his arm

    Hot and cold
    In my short-sleeved polo top, I hope to co-opt Gareth Southgate’s laid-back authority

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Food

  • OM Nigel Pea Rice copy

    Nigel Slater's midweek dinner
    Nigel's recipe for peas, rice and basil

    A particularly vibrant, vivid, herby green dish
  • Harriet Mansell - Vegetarian Summer Spread 037

    Summer food
    Stuffed flatbreads and butterbean dip: Harriet Mansell’s vegetarian summer spread – recipes

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Health & wellbeing

  • Zoe Williams

    Getting fit is great – but it could turn you into a rightwing jerk

    Zoe Williams
  • Phil Daoust sitting in Norwood Park.

    Never write yourself off! 25 things I’ve learned about getting fit – after almost 60 years of sloth

    • Rose Stokes and her son at home in Bath

      ‘The darkest period of my life’: I struggled to breastfeed – then a drug sent me spiralling

    • Arwa Mahdawi

      Should we follow Lily Allen – and let our partner control our smartphone?

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • Sweating man with sweat band round his head.

      Sweat wisely! 22 etiquette rules for exercise – from swimming lanes to selfies

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    Give the two-minute navy shower a try
    Nine great ways to save water when you wash

  • Young woman washing hair in shower at luxury spa. Woman washing her curly hair with shampoo and a lot of lather.

    From saving water to temperature presets
    Why it’s time to get excited about ‘smart showers’

  • A young attractive man with a long hair and beard smiling widely straight at a camera with his eyes tightly closed covered in a shampoo

    ‘I touch my toes 10 times in the shower’
    Britons come clean about their bathing habits

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    Feeling hot, hot, hot
    The health benefits of getting steamy in the shower

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Relationships

  • Varad and Rasika.

    How we met
    How we met: ‘I couldn’t just go with the flow – so I told him I had romantic feelings’

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    Ask Philippa
    I don’t want to invite my alcoholic dad to my wedding

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    Sexual healing
    I lose interest in sex at the moment of penetration – and it’s puzzling my husband

  • An illustration of a woman with her back facing us, arms folded.

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    Why am I so afraid to accept that it’s time for me to retire?

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Travel

  • Bodø viewed from the mountain plateau of Keiservarden.

    Art in the Arctic
    Exploring Bodø, Norway, European capital of culture 2024

    The Norwegian town, just inside the Arctic Circle, makes an unusual setting for a programme of exhibitions and gigs – and the sun doesn’t set all summer
  • The Head of Franz Kafka, at the Quadrio shopping mall in Prague

    Franz Kafka’s Prague
    A centenary tour of the writer’s home city

  • two hiking friends pictured from the rear, walking along a hiking path on Ben Nevis in Scotland

    Win a holiday voucher!
    Tell us about your favourite wilderness experiences in Scotland

  • Young hiker on Black Hill, or cats back, in the Black Mountains looking at the view in the Brecon Beacons national park<br>GettyImages-1022905508

    Natural highs
    10 of the UK’s best outdoor yoga and activity retreats

  • The Milky Way galaxy seen over Burton Mill Pond, thin wispy clouds, The South Downs National Park, Petworth, Sussex, UK. August. Night.<br>PEXMNK The Milky Way galaxy seen over Burton Mill Pond, thin wispy clouds, The South Downs National Park, Petworth, Sussex, UK. August. Night.

    Night-time is an intoxicating new land
    How learning to love the dark eased my grief

  • Verona, Italy, August 26, 2021: Giardino Giusti garden in Italian town Verona.<br>2J4M40R Verona, Italy, August 26, 2021: Giardino Giusti garden in Italian town Verona.

    Floral feasts
    10 of the best gardens in Europe you’ve probably never heard of

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Money

  • A telegraph pole outside a house

    Property
    Internet provider Brsk has blocked our home’s view

    An enormous telegraph pole appeared out of the blue, and council says there is nothing we can do
  • A letter about carer's allowance

    Money
    Dithering DWP owes me £1,300 in carer’s allowance

  • Shopping online with a Nationwide card.

    Consumer champions
    Nationwide blocked my debit card and won’t tell me why

  • Consumer champions
    Metro Bank ignored my report of attempted scam

  • Home improvements
    Does Checkatrade’s vetting really check out?

  • Motoring
    Insurer Saga has taken four months to repair my parents’ car

  • Consumer champions
    My SumUp card reader has been blocked and I can’t afford new one

  • Consumer champions
    Childcare vouchers firm won’t refund £2,800 accrued since pandemic struck

  • Motoring
    A botched RAC rescue turned our French road trip into an ordeal

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Puzzles

  • Equations on blackboard

    Crossword blog
    Crosswords: what to do when a puzzle looks harder than it actually is

  • Cryptic crosswords
    Cryptic crossword No 29,400

    • Quick crosswords
      Quick crossword No 16,873

    • Sudoku
      Sudoku 6,503 medium

    • Prize crosswords
      Prize crossword No 29,398

    • Killer sudoku
      Observer killer sudoku

    • Thomas Eaton
      What links Dolly Parton with Charles Dickens? The Saturday quiz

    • Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
      Did you solve it? How do you like them apples?

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    Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the US and while sunscreen abounds in aisles, many aren’t applying it correctly
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The big picture

  • Three Victorian cartes de visite showing two Welsh women in hats; a white cats wearing glasses; and Charles Dickens

    Portrait cards that sparked a Victorian collecting craze – in pictures

    Paul Frecker collects cartes de visite, photographic mementos that became a fervently followed fad
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