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Why can’t I put on mascara without opening my mouth? Rita, LondonSend new questions to nq@theguardian.com.Readers replyYou don’t need to when you do your upper lashes…

When I was very young, my family and I emigrated from Albania to Melbourne. As a child of refugees settling in Australia after the second world…

Thunderstorms and flooding could pose a danger to life in parts of the UK this weekend, according to forecasters.The Met Office has issued an amber thunderstorm…

Anyone who says “age is just a number” has not reached the high numbers. Ageing is not easy, and “forever young” is not a plan. Regardless…

The prosecution: Alex I haven’t labelled the jars, but you can just sniff each spice and work out which is which When my flatmate, Murad, and I…

This story was produced by The 19th and reprinted with permission.  On July 4, Nory Sontay Ramos stepped off a flight from San Antonio into a…

Wedaeli ChibelushiBBC NewsAFP via Getty ImagesMuhammadu Buhari’s life tracked the dramatic changes in politics in Nigeria over the last five decades – and he was often…

There is a longstanding practice in UK politics and media to force disabled people to fight for their basic rights – a kind of gladiatorial scrap…

A Glaucus atlanticus eats a Porpita. Both are residents of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Oxford Scientific/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Oxford Scientific/Getty Images A…

It struck me recently that, as a woman in my 30s, I am almost never asked about my plans to have children. Even in the few…