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  • Anna Katharina Schaffner HI RES 190224 Obs AS 825 F

    Feeling exhausted? Here’s how to fight the weariness

  • Amelia Abraham for The Observer Magazine

    Maybe baby: could a fertility coach help you make an easier parenting decision?

    Queer families, rising infertility, choosing to go it alone or not at all – the landscape of baby-making is shifting. Amelia Abraham meets a fertility coach to help make up her mind – well, almost
  • Lara Williams's face, split down the middle and offset, with one eye closed and one open

    ‘The first few nights were punishing’: how sleep restriction cured my lifelong insomnia

    After giving birth, novelist Lara Williams feared she might never sleep again. So she turned to CBT-i, a radical therapy that rewired her relationship to sleep
  • Prince William, King Charles, Queen Camilla and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak with his wife Akshata Murty applaud at a D-Day event in Portsmouth

    Marina Hyde on Sunak and class, my parachute failed at at 4,000ft, my gaming-addicted son, and a new approach to quitting smoking – podcast

  • ‘Wonder and gratitude’: Kristi Schmidt with her granddaughter Ekko and daughter Heidi in California.

    Experience: I gave birth to my granddaughter

  • A woman with tousled hair dreams as she sleeps

    One night I’m a murderer, the next my husband’s having an affair. Why do we have the dreams that we do?

  • Phil Daoust with his staffie cross Sienna.

    The loneliness trap: it is said to be as bad as smoking. So will it shorten my lifespan?

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Advice

  • Mum Dad arguing with child stuck in the middle

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    My working-class dad sent me to private school – now I feel that I’ve failed him

  • A woman wearing a towel and looking towards the floor

    Sexual healing
    My partner wants me to ejaculate – and I’m not sure it’s possible

  • Illustration showing good and bad mood on a woman by representing it with thunderstorm or sun above her

    Ask Philippa
    Why am I so angry when I’m with my mother?

  • A learner driver policy ends when holder passes their test.

    Consumer champions
    Car insurer charged £40 to cancel learner driver policy

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Running & biking

  • Man standing next to a surprisingly large bicycle.

    ‘The big problem is water’: UK ebike owners plagued by failing motors

  • A home in Creetown, Dumfries and Galloway on national cycle route 7.

    Homes for sale for cyclists – in pictures

  • woman with elctric mountain bike in the Dolomites<br>nice and active senior woman riding her electric mountain bike on the high plateau of Pratto Piazzo in the three peaks Dolomites , rocky silhouette of Mount Cristallo in background, South Tirol, Italy

    How to keep your cool cycling up Italian mountains with a teenager in tow

  • The legs of a woman in blue skates

    ‘I made curtains on the train’: the commuters livening up their journeys

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Health news

  • a mother breastfeeds her child

    Women exposed to ‘forever chemicals’ may risk shorter breastfeeding duration

  • Anthony Joshua.

    Heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua wants to open care home for retired boxers

    • Woman working from home office

      Hybrid working makes employees happier, healthier and more productive, study shows

    • An Teallach, with a sharp peak and a range of other mountains, at sunrise with a lake in front of it

      Bagging a Munro gets easier as volunteers fund repairs to mountain paths

    • A woman and man hiking among shrubs and big rocks, with a mountain behind them, both wearing Páramo hiking jackets and trousers

      Outdoor clothing brands still using ‘forever chemicals’ despite health risk

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