Health

Discipline isn't the most common habit among people with self-control, says bestselling author—here's what is

You can reach your goals and create better habits, even if you aren't the most disciplined, says James Clear. But you'll need the right environment.

A head-on car crash sidelined a young mom. A rare transplant was the only option to get her life back.

January 17, 2026 / 8:00 AM EST / CBS News

The Bots That Women Use in a World of Unsatisfying Men

AI is offering people a way to figure out what they really want in romance.

‘It took time to love my soft, larger shape’: the body-positive writer who recovered from an eating disorder

Megan Jayne Crabbe was diagnosed with anorexia at 14. When she hit her ‘goal weight’ and still didn’t feel happy, a supportive online community showed her a new way to live

‘There is a moment of clarity that life would be better without alcohol’: what we can learn from addiction memoirs

After losing her father to alcohol addiction, author Sophie Calon turned to writing – and found clarity, connection and hope in other stories of relapse and recovery

‘Read this and you will be happier’: experts pick the self-help books that really work

From finding love to becoming a better parent … Philippa Perry, Paul Dolan, Orna Guralnik and others reveal the books that will change your life

A Different Path to Parenthood

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Meera Sodha’s recipe for Turk-ish eggs with lemon yoghurt

A warming, scoop-it-up tomato and egg dish a bit like shakshuka, but the zippy lemony yoghurt and harissa give away its Turkish roots

Tim Dowling: how a toilet-based epiphany saved me from the January blues

Repairing the cistern has not only given me hope for the year ahead, it has changed our lives …

He called himself an ‘untouchable hacker god’. But who was behind the biggest crime Finland has ever known?

How would you feel if your therapist’s notes – your darkest thoughts and deepest feelings – were exposed to the world? For 33,000 Finnish people, that became a terrifying reality, with deadly consequences

Rare twins born in DRC raise cautious hope for endangered mountain gorillas

Virunga park ranger says babies are well cared for by mother Mafuko but high infant mortality makes first weeks critical

The joys of getting the kids ready for a winter walk: the Becky Barnicoat cartoon

Will you make it out before dark?