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Manuka honey is ever more prized for its health benefits. But with more being sold than is actually produced, is there some dodgy dealing going on?
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Why give in to the passage of time when in older age you can change your love life, your career – or even your gender?
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According to a new study, it can boost life satisfaction and self-esteem
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We spend it, waste it and then wish that we had more of it. In Brazil, there’s a tribe that doesn’t believe in it – and many physicists feel the same way. So why is time such a contentious concept – and could we put an end to it all together?
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Checking out a date's online profile before a meeting can be hazardous, as Rhodri Marsden found out
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A new marketing campaign by Always is the latest to stress the importance of a woman's appearance. Natalie Haynes looks at whether this is a positive strategy – or exploitative
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Computer images and models have taken over from real dissection, meaning students lack confidence
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If you're harvesting vegetables from your garden right now, don’t forget to snip a few flowers, too - delicious pickled, fried or tossed raw into a salad, says Mark Hix
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fashionAfter languishing behind the women's sector, menswear is storming the luxury market
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fashionHave a Moulin Rouge moment in a 1920s-inspired frock
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A new multi-million dollar prize for maths aims to bring rock star status to pointy-headed academics, even though no one really understands what they do. About time, says Steve Connor
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fashionYoung British fashion designers are attracting international brands to London's menswear showcase
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motoringThe brand that was once synonymous with the male midlife crisis now has designs on women
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How has racial equality changed since the 1960s? 'It feels like we're going backwards.'
When the racial equality activist Rob Berkeley was asked to reflect on life in Britain for the black youth of today, he thought of his parents – who emigrated from Grenada in the 1960s and have now returned to the Caribbean –and wrote them this wry, moving and, at times, startling letter
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Bentley Continental GT V8 S Coupe, motoring review: The NHS should prescribe this car as a cure for depression
PRICE £139,000
ENGINE CAPACITY 4 litre V8
POWER OUTPUT (BHP) 521
TOP SPEED (MPH) 192
FUEL ECONOMY (MPG) 26.8
CO2 EMISSIONS (g/KM) 246
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Someone made a shot-for-shot remake of the GTA 5 trailer IRL
And it matches the original pretty perfectly
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Style file: Reign in purple make-up
Lilac and lavender have become the make-up staples for the season, writes Holly Swayne
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The manuka honey scandal
Manuka honey is ever more prized for its health benefits. But with more being sold than is actually produced, is there some dodgy dealing going on?
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Jimmy Savile admitted getting knighthood was 'a relief because it got me off the hook'
In the light of details about sexual abuse and macabre acts that emerged from an inquiry into Jimmy Savile last week, this compelling and disquieting interview by the celebrated journalist Lynn Barber takes on new meaning. We run it in full for the first time since it was published in 1990 in The Independent on Sunday
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Rabbit-hutch Britain: Growing health concerns as UK sets record for smallest properties in Europe
Millions living in overcrowded housing because of failure to build new homes
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Why guys are posing with tigers in their Tinder pictures (and why it won't get them any more dates...)
Guys on the dating app (which acts as a catalogue of cleavage, six packs and selfies) seem to think that posing with a big cat will make others swoon
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Pussy riot: Photographer Alexandra Crockett's book Metal Cats celebrates the metalheads who have a soft spot for their moggies
On stage, they are the lords of darkness; back at home, they can’t wait to cuddle up to their kitties
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UK edges closer to EU exit as David Cameron is crushed in bid to block Jean-Claude Juncker's leadership
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Exclusive: Cameron’s empty threat to the EU - PM is losing the argument because even his allies in Europe do not believe him
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European Court of Human Rights upholds French ban on full-face veils
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Exclusive: BBC’s ‘race problem’ gets worse as more ethnic minority staff quit the corporation last year than joined
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What is David Cameron playing at? His anti-EU stance is totally irresponsible
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Omar Bakri Muhammad: Islamist leader seeks return to UK, after being banned in wake of 7/7 praise
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The Jimmy Savile abuse scandal means men across Britain will sleep uneasily, remembering past 'conquests'
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One of the most Earth-like planets in the galaxy has been discovered 'a stone's throw away'
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Robin Thicke mercilessly trolled after #AskThicke publicity stunt goes horribly wrong
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