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Joe Biden said only the 'Lord Almighty' could persuade him not to stand. Divine intervention duly arrived on Wednesday night when it was revealed that the President had tested positive for Covid.

It was difficult to find somewhere to have sex with my beautiful lover Eliot. He was 27 and lived with flatmates.

IT'S a shocking statistic that reveals medical sexism is still a dangerous issue in this country: while men are more prone to heart attacks, women have a higher risk of dying from one.

Donald Trump tried his best to hide it. But as he walked out into the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee for his first appearance since Saturday's attempt on his life, his body betrayed him.

I doubt many of us know much about the process of getting a vital diagnosis. We don't consider the highly qualified doctors we're unlikely ever to meet, but on whose skill our lives depend.

Fresh-faced, the girls who sat chatting to me had flawless complexions - but had been brainwashed by a modern beauty aesthetic that insists you cannot be attractive without artificial enhancement.

Picture a harmonious evening and a restful night's sleep.If you like the sound of that, just wait till the menopause arrives. Expect to give up all your little treats and always be the peacemaker.

In her latest agony aunt column, best-selling author Jane Green gives advice to a woman who has been shamed by her friends after sharing her family's favorite dinner tradition with them.

Mothers love their kids; they'll do anything for them. That's what we're told. But I don't believe my mother loved me. She didn't seem to care for me, or my siblings, the way other mothers did.

As I drop an item onto the floor, my daughter, Sophie, looks at me quizzically.. We're sorting through my cupboards, so I can have a clear-out and she can see if there's anything worth selling.

Bethan Galliers was delighted to be at the theatre with friends for a play she'd wanted to see for ages. But within minutes her enjoyment was interrupted by a coughing fit - her own.

A colleague tells me that when she was 30 she went on a date with a man of her age. When she asked him where he lived, he replied he lived at home with his mother, and she gave him a quizzical look.

When Green Mothin Ali celebrated his win yelling 'Allahu-Akbar', he must have known what associations the words have for survivors of Islamist atrocities

As Charles III prepares to celebrate the anniversary of his Coronation on May 6, he may well reflect on what has been a bittersweet first year as King.

When it comes to royal portraits, nothing should be taken for granted. So what does the new image of Their Majesties released to mark the anniversary of the Coronation next week tell us?

Where to live when children come along is one of the biggest decisions facing young couples. A safe local area is all important and equally vital is access to good schools.

Air pollution, plastic, worrying too much, sitting too much, forgetting to floss, coffee, eating burgers - sometimes it can feel as if everything in life is conspiring to kill us.

Actress Fay Ripley made headlines when she said tha she would breastfeed her grandchildren. Some people were shocked, thinking it is impossible, but grandmothers can breastfeed.

As new details continue to emerge about the shocking security failure at the fateful Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, at the weekend, ­myriad questions have been raised.

A hundred years have passed since Paris last hosted the Games and organisers - who have lavished a reported £8billion on preparations - are predicting an influx of 15million visitors.

Having children is becoming a luxury. The only people who can afford to have big families these days are either very wealthy or happy to milk the welfare state for every last penny.

My brother died recently and I am the executor of his will. He owned a Toyota Aygo, which is currently parked on the road outside his house in Wales.

When Mike Wagner began babysitting his grandchildren shortly after the first was born nine years ago, he never dreamed it would also boost his state pension income by nearly £20,000.

Orgasms last typically between 13 and 51 seconds in a woman but a mere six seconds in a man - but they unlock much more than the obvious benefits of sexual pleasure.

Tired and feeling low? Bloated? Struggling to focus? These are signs your gut is talking to your brain - and you need to listen up.

If Lucy Letby is guilty, then there is a strong case for executing her. Her supposed crimes are so cruel and grievous. It is hard to see any argument against the death penalty, if she is guilty.

The Democratic Party strategy to re-elect Joe Biden as U.S. President was simple and stark: Donald Trump is a threat to democracy.

How could I share my joy with the young men all around me, who had thrown their German hosts' generous hospitality back in their faces by singing moronic songs about Hitler and bombing Berlin?

In March 2021, Jacob Hopkins became the first person in the world to allow doctors to infect him with the Covid-19 virus on ­purpose, all in the name of research.

We all know the British summer is often a wash-out… but this year? With endless rain and a definite chill in the air, there's been no chance of a healthy glow - so it's a bottle of fake tan to the rescue.

The long school summer holiday is bliss for children, but less so for parents who may have to fork out thousands to cover activities and childcare. Here's six ways to reduce your costs

My father offered to pay for our son to go to university - in front of him. I'm not sure my father is aware of the cost these days and I'm convinced he couldn't afford it. VICKY REYNAL advises

We hear a lot about 'trauma' these days; in fact, contemporary psychology seems obsessed with it.

Saturday night's failed assassination attempt at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania makes a victory for The Donald more likely than ever.

Another day, another beauty hashtag. Social media's latest obsession is #skinstreaming with 137.7million TikTok views and counting.

As I write this, I've just scrolled through some photos of my garden taken in July 2022. The images show a parched plot suffering from lack of water during the driest July since 1935.

You've worked hard and given your children everything they need growing up. You've also been sensible with money to save for your future, so you don't have to work longer than necessary.

R.F. writes: I forwarded a certificate to Cauta Capital for redemption of a £20,000 bond which I bought in 2018. Interest was also due, but I have received nothing.

I honestly want to know. Is your life like this? Are you really p***ed off, angry, exhausted, sick of being treated badly? It cannot just be me.

Dear Bel, How can I avoid feeling fearful about the future? Why am I so full of gloom, when the election is over and we have no choice but to accept the result? Why this feeling of helpless despair?

How unnecessary of Prince Harry to evoke Diana when he controversially accepted the Pat Tillman Award - named after an American war hero who died in Afghanistan.

The Democratic Party strategy to re-elect Joe Biden as U.S. President was simple and stark: Donald Trump is a threat to democracy.

It was the terrifying possibility that haunted Holly Willoughby every day for nine months: What if Gavin Plumb walks free? But yesterday Gavin Plumb was finally sentenced to life in prison.

I am 76 and my partner, who is 74, has Parkinson's and dementia plus other medical issues.

You may scoff, but deciding what your little one is going to be called is the first big parenting decision you'll make. And the impact a person's may can have on their life is not to be underestimated.

When Sir Keir Starmer entered No 10 for the first time last Friday, clouds hung over London. The grim weather matched the mood of many Tory voters, who, viewed the future with dread.

Eliot and I had been seeing each other for a month and a half and I thought it was time to commit, finally commit, to having a Brazilian wax.

Mothers love their kids; they'll do anything for them. That's what we're told. But I don't believe my mother loved me. She didn't seem to care for me, or my siblings, the way other mothers did.

Here a group of leading experts, from Kate and Camilla's hairdressers to Helen Mirren 's stylist, reveal all the reasons why some women look so much older than their contemporaries.

A bespectacled elderly man in a black leather jacket stomps up the stairs to his office and confronts the bearded plain-clothes policeman guarding the door.

Growing your own is good for the planet and great for your health but if you are going to invest all that time, you want to make sure it is worth the effort.

Dear Bel, I'll cut to the chase. Four years after the vaccine rollout, and a year after the World health organisation declared the Covid pandemic over, I'm still wearing a face mask.

You know you're getting old when you find yourself listening to Radio 2 and you think it's Radio 1. That was the joke 50 years ago when DJs were transferred from 'Ray-de-O One!' to pipe-and-slippers Radio 2.

I was on the outskirts of Warsaw, the Polish capital, - accompanied by the constant crack of gunfire bursting through the trees.

For women like Myra Hindley and Lucy Letby, a life sentence is the only option, but the majority of women in prison have not committed such dreadful, murderous crimes.

To me, sports days are a gargantuan waste of time we should do away with. For a start, any residual knockabout fun has been replaced by a spirit of ruthless competition.

From itching to problem rashes, dryness and colourful discharge, there are myriad complaints affecting women's genitals. We spoke to the experts about how to fix issues 'down there'.

Is it worth trying Courteney's routine? I'm a tweakments expert and over the past 20 years I've tried almost all the anti-ageing treatments there are out there.

A week ago, the Tories lost the election. Now they are losing the plot. And whatever remaining shreds of unity, humility and sanity a furious electorate didn't tear from them on July 4.

Holidaymakers could save hundreds of pounds by ditching the travel insurance extras they don't need. So how do you strike the ideal balance?

General Sir Patrick Sanders, the recently retired chief of the general staff, yesterday warned we may be just years away from World War III.

We booked a big farmhouse close to the church and reception in the Cotswolds. Now the owner has informed us they are no longer renting it out.

As speed-limiting technology is made mandatory on all new EU cars and is likely to be fitted in most cars sold in the UK, will it benefit your wallet as well as the road?

Plant trends tend to stick around longer than fashion and home decor fads. Here are my ten trendiest new plants to make your garden look hort-couture in 2024, plus five that are just so last season.

Katie Tinkler remembers calling, 'See you later', to her daughter as she was stretchered into an ambulance - having collapsed on the bathroom floor.

For those of us with a family history of breast cancer, new tests pose an interesting conundrum. Should we fork out for one of these 'liquid biopsies', still a long way from being available on the NHS?

No one expected Alec Baldwin to turn up at pre-trial hearings on Monday, but just before 8am he stepped out of a Chevrolet and headed into the First Judicial District Court of New Mexico in Santa Fe.

On Monday a friend told me that she was leaving her 'miserable marriage'. I didn't know there was anything miserable about it, although I'd always thought she was more fun than her boring husband.

Gen Z's latest TikTok obsession is make-up 'blindness'. This is where users post self-deprecating images of looks they used to consider perfection, yet now look unhinged.

Reeves portrayed herself as a woman of action as she unveiled her plans to 'fix the foundations of the economy' just 72 hours after taking over the fiscal hot seat.

Mister Toad and, for that matter, the late Harold Macmillan would be horrified. Cars are about to measure our driving skills. Renault has announced it will rate our driving abilities out of a score of 100.

Directly after we meet, 16-year-old Ami Charlize will be chauffeured from her home in Essex to Simon Cowell's London mansion to film TikTok videos.

Many Tories are chipper given that their party has suffered the biggest defeat in its history. They point out that no party has achieved power with so small a percentage of the vote as Labour

Labour's pensions review has the potential to be far more radical than previously expected, experts have warned The Mail on Sunday. So, how can you protect your retirement savings?

As she turns 60, author JOANNE HARRIS on how life is like a story with a beginning, a middle, an end - not always as structured or ordered but the journey is ours in part to direct.

Labour's vote share in this week's election was only 34 per cent, in the lowest turnout for 20 years. Which means that more than 80 per cent of the electorate did not vote Labour.

In what experts are describing as a 'hugely significant cultural shift', the latest statistics suggest one in three under-25s, known as 'Gen Z', are shunning alcohol completely.

I'm a 70-year-old woman, and last year when the weather was hot my ankles and feet swelled up. Since then the swelling has not gone down. Can you offer any advice? DR ELLIE CANNON replies.

At a victory rally at the Tate Modern gallery early yesterday morning, Sir Keir Starmer waxed elegiac. 'We can look forward again, walk into the morning,' he mused.

The Conservative party is now the political equivalent of Monty Python's Norwegian Blue parrot, writes Dan Hodges. There is no unification of the Right without Farage.

This was the dawn of a 'seismic' new political era, so we were told. And the opening remarks at the inaugural meeting of the Reform parliamentary party? 'Farage! You're a racist!'

So here they are, the Seven Secrets Of Happiness, based on what I learnt fr om Dr AnthonyClare - and what I have discovered since.

Over the next five years, our savings and investments are going to be pickpocketed like never before by Rachel Reeves , Starmer's financial enforcer.

The election of a Labour government with a massive majority is being portrayed, at home and abroad, as the start of a lurch to the Left in Britain.

Can it really be just six weeks since Rishi announced his kamikaze snap election in a torrential rainstorm with D:Ream's Things Can Only Get Better drowning out his words?

I have a Dignitas fund, a savings pot to cover the cost - which is about £10,000 - of a trip to the clinic in Switzerland where people go to end their lives That may shock you, especially as I'm not dying.

It's easy to believe in 'besties for life' when you're 15 and share a Taylor Swift obsession. By midlife, however, maintaining friendships is much harder.

I noticed something interesting at the victory of Bridget Phillipson MP. Her supporters greeted it with clenched-fist salutes, as if she was off to fight in the Spanish Civil War.

Yesterday's result was no blip, no mere wobble from which the SNP will easily recover. Rather, it was the brutally clear verdict of a Scottish electorate failed by 17 years of nationalist incompetence.

Welcome to the morning after the nightmare before. The hangover from Hell starts here. It will take more than Paracetamol and a hair of the dog to get over the result of this General Election.

It is 14 years since I stood chatting to a nervous politician on the eve of taking power. The Tories' coalition talks had ended and David Cameron became the youngest PM for two centuries.

Call me a hopeless optimist but, on the train to the Television and Radio Industries Club Awards last week, I felt so excited that I was rehearsing our team's acceptance speech in my head.

At some point in the next few days, Alec Baldwin will fly into New Mexico to take on one of the most important roles in his life - as the accused.

The acrid smell of smoke still permeates the air at the kibbutz village of Kfar Aza where, nine months ago, 64 people were brutally murdered and 19 kidnapped by Hamas terrorists.

Here's our expert guide to snaff­ling the six key pieces of the summer - in versions so good even a fashion editor will look twice...

A few evenings ago, I was sitting in an expensive restaurant with a couple of friends. Halfway through the lamb cutlets, three rowdy children at the next table started to misbehave.

Many men confess that they never carry out do-it-yourself checks on themselves for suspicious lumps or bumps that might indicate a potential problem.

Just under two years ago, aged 31and a month after my husband ended our marriage, here I was sending devil emojis to a man I knew virtually nothing about.

Dear Bel, it's been three tortuous years since my 'happy' marriage came crashing apart. My husband of 20 years said he 'no longer loves me' and moved out

Expensive perfume, a designer purse and a £200 gift experience. These are just some of the luxury items on the present list I was expected to buy from for a girl who's at school with my daughter.

For me there has never been any doubt in my mind. I will be voting today for the Conservative Party, for the very best of reasons.

When I began working in TV, it never occurred to me that enduring rampant misogyny would be part of the job. I was visibly pregnant, and inundated with little notes delivered to me at the newsroom.

There was a time when creases in one's forehead or the odd grey hair were the tell-tale signs of encroaching middle age. But now one of the biggest signs you're past it is your socks.

Wandsworth Prison has been catapulted into the spotlight, courtesy of a viral video clip, appearing to show a prison guard having sex with an inmate. The scenario is depressingly familiar.

This was my first day at boarding school, fresh off the plane from America and jet lagged - and it was a culture shock. I hated the petty rules, the archaic uniform and the dearth of home comforts.

In her latest agony aunt column, best-selling author Jane Green gives candid advice to a woman who is struggling to come to terms with her own survival of a terminal diagnosis.

Workers earning from £15,000 to £120,000 a year are being hit by absurd tax traps that penalise them for doing well at work.

Everyone has dreams of what they'll do when they retire. But millions are saving too little for the lifestyle they desire - and could run out of money.

Since Rishi Sunak called the election, Labour has been relentless in repeating the soundbite it hopes will carry it into power: 'The Tories crashed the economy.'

Taiwan dominates production of the computer chips powering the AI revolution. But what would happen to YOUR investments and pension if the Chinese invade?

Ofcom has a voluntary Automatic Compensation Scheme in which you're entitled to £9.76 per day compensation until the service is resumed if it's been down for more than two full working days.

My husband and I made a travel insurance claim worth over £7,500 in May last year, but it has not been resolved. Despite many emails between us and our insurer, we're still getting the runaround.

British women get remarkable hot and bothered over being 'beach body ready'. Our attitude has been shaped by decades of sniggering.

The timing of Labour's imminent win could not be worse. The UK is about to be ruled by a party that clings to the soggy pieties of social democracy, as it is rejected in Europe.

Could misery be contagious? There's no doubt that the number of Britons complaining of low mood and depression-like symptoms, such as sadness and feeling helpless, is spiralling.

Wearing sunscreen can help keep you safe in the sun - it's a mantra that has been drummed into us for years - but how much can we really rely on it?

On the eve of the 1997 general election, I was talking to a group of Pony Club mums in the village where I lived. All of them 'followed the hunt' and were proud supporters of country pursuits.

Fermented foods have never been so fashionable. Demand for kimchi, kefir and sauerkraut has soared in recent years, thanks to their reportedly beneficial impact on gut health.

Laura Bennett was working from home one morning in November 2022 when she started to feel slightly off-colour - tired, struggling to concentrate and feeling detached.

An injection of a compound found in toothpastes may treat bone fractures caused by osteoporosis, a condition that makes bones prone to breaking.

Dear Bel, after a few glasses of wine I got fixated on a particularly handsome younger man in the bar. We got talking and I couldn't stop laughing at his humour.

I am a grandmother of three gorgeous little boys and happily look after them in the school holidays. But taking them out adds up and I'd like to ask my son for £30 a day. Can you help?

I've recently been getting pins and needles in my left hand. Often my fingers are so numb I can press them together and not feel anything. I also get elbow pain at the same time. What might this be?

It was all going so well. David bought me a new vacuum cleaner. Great. Brownie point.

As I pushed my trolley around Aldi looking for the cheapest rice and pasta I could find to feed the family, I thought wistfully, of my first love, Rupert. He has just returned from a sailing trip in Greece.

Weight loss drugs have been hailed by everyone from politicians to Hollywood's finest. Oprah Winfrey said their advent 'feels like relief, like redemption, like a gift'.