DEAR DEIDRE: NEXT spring I’m due to marry the woman I thought was the love of my life but our sex life has gone down the tubes since she’s put on some weight. I’m 33 and she’s 26. When we first got together, I was pinching myself for finding someone so gorgeous. Now I guess my feelings have changed. I […]

When it comes to summer socializing, there is no better place than the Hamptons—at least according to Gwyneth Paltrow, Naomi Watts, and the many other celebs who have been spotted "Out East" in recent weeks. Of course, it's also nice to work a decadent, seaside trip to Europe into your August schedule—preferably to the South of France or coastal Italy […]

Dan LaMoore sizes hands for an 8-foot diameter silhouette clock at Electric Time Co., in Medfield, Massachusetts. (Photo: Elise Amendola, AP Images) Suppose you were promised $1,440 each day for your entire life — a whopping $525,600 a year — that could never be reduced or changed as long as you live. Sounds great, doesn’t it? Actually, we all do get […]

A quarter believe they gave up their careers too soon, while 13 percent feel as though they have lost a part of themselves. One in four (26 percent) of those polled says he or she is plagued by loneliness, and 23 percent suffer from depression or anxiety. The survey, by home care providers Home Instead, found the average age of retirement […]

Less than two months after he started dating Heather Ra Young, Tarek El Moussa is ‘optimistic’ that he’s found the one again. He EXCLUSIVELY tells us that they’ve even discussed getting married! It’s been over two years since Christina Anstead, 36, and Tarek El Moussa, 37, called it quits. Only recently has the Flip Or Flop star “flipped” his heartbreak […]

TESCO has launched a new student card that parents can top up to help their child pay for their weekly food shop. The Student Shopper scheme comes with two cards – one for the parent or guardian and the other for the student living away from home. The cards are linked together with a shared balance that either side can […]

Former First Lady of Somaliland, 82, recalls harrowing night her mother paid a friend to perform barbaric FGM on her when she was 8 – while her family looked on ‘joyfully’ WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT  EXCLUSIVE: Edna Adan Ismail was daughter of Somaliland’s best-loved doctor Dubbed ‘Muslim Mother Theresa’, Edna was first midwife to practise in country Built own hospital in […]

It started with names drawn from a hat. Photographer Shannyn Higgins randomly paired 25 writers and 25 visual artists as the starting point for an exhibition that combines art and language as part of this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival. Duality’s subjects include Courtney Barnett, Chloe Hooper, Judith Lucy, Beci Orpin and Oslo Davis in a project that festival director Marieke […]

A fitness instructor who splashed out £5,000 on a boob job will now have to cough up a similar fee to have them removed. Kate Michalkova still likes having the now-recalled implants but they are leaving her in agony. The 44-year-old increased her A-cup chest to a 34D after breastfeeding and intense physical training left her with "non-existent" boobs, reports […]

For those that saw the first trailer for Last Christmas and thought that this was just another holiday rom-com, think again. Twitter is already coming up with Last Christmas movie theories that will have you reaching for the tissues. This Christmas, you better be prepared to cry your eyes out, that is, if you believe these rather tragic twists that […]