Great Western Pullman dining car gets a makeover

It is so easy to think about the fantasy of how we think sex should be, that we don't actually enjoy it

Leigh Cowart explains how a disease that has claimed fewer than 2,000 victims in its history has earned a place in the darkest corner of the public's imagination

Katherine McQuay Lewis has spent eight years nursing her chronically ill husband Dave

Let hipsters eat gluten-free cake - it made a world of difference to those of us with coeliac disease

A Canadian festival has banned Native American headwear. Haven't we been here before? Gillian Orr wonders when the fashion world will realise some things really are sacred

Fist bumps are officially the most hygienic way of saying hello, but where did this greeting originate?

From cholera to bird flu, deadly infectious diseases have become a serious cause for concern to world leaders

Fancy job titles and big name bosses inflate the ego but don't always pay the bills - and they come with a heavy amount of stress

Inside the sensual world of the synaesthetes

But only half of those infected know they have it

Family events used to be marked in the personal columns. But now Facebook has usurped the ‘Births, Deaths and Marriages’ announcements.