Health

Scenes of destruction after deadly earthquakes in Venezuela

Rescue efforts under way after buildings reduced to rubble in capital and along northern coast

Psychology expert: 5 'sneaky' phrases manipulators use—how shut them down on the spot

Psychology expert Shadé Zahrai shares how to shut down common phrases that manipulators use.

5 common phrases manipulators use and how to defuse them

Shadé Zahrai, Ph.D., spent a decade advising Fortune 500 companies as a behavioral researcher. She says that if you find yourself in conversation with a manipulator, stay steady, don't over-explain, and hold your position.

This 29-year-old is training to be a flight surgeon and has nearly $1.2 million invested

After completing a medical residency in Anchorage, Alaska, Eric Chan will begin a three-year service committment in the Air Force.

My father left my mother for another woman. He wants us to start including her. Do we need to?

He’s decided he wants to be with her, writes Eleanor Gordon-Smith – this means choosing between what feels fair and what’s best for your relationship

Belittled, ignored or gaslit – now we know the true cost of not listening to pregnant women

The Ockenden report tells a terrible story of neglect. It’s a story that I – and far too many women I know – recognise

Hundreds dead as Europe breaks temperature records during heat wave

Hundreds of people have died across Western Europe as a result of a record-breaking heatwave over the past week.

Perhaps France Should Reconsider AC

A summer escape to Paris, at least in the American mind, evokes a certain set of images: quiet strolls along the canals, long hours in bookstores and museums, a pleasant park bench, a glass of wine. Those pleasures are now contending with one of the most brutal and dangerous heat waves that Europe has faced in decades, a muggy, enervating stretch of weather that has forced millions of people across Europe, many of them in homes without air-conditioning and with few options for refuge, to endure triple-digit temperatures.

'Summer on a plate': 12 delicious ways to enjoy stone fruit

Peaches and apricots are ripe here, ripe now. They’re perfect for everything from sandwiches and salads to puddings

‘Like swimming through the air’: my thrilling role in Giselle with the Royal Ballet School’s wheelchair dancers

I use a wheelchair and yearn to dance like I did when I was a kid. Could I possibly hold my own in a class led by inspirational disabled dance star Kate Stanforth?

Sali Hughes on beauty: feeling the heat? A face mist

Finding the weather too hot to handle? It will be a breeze with one of these soothing sprays

Ice, ice, baby: four fab frozen desserts, from fruit splits to semifreddos

Beat the heat with pistachio sammies, fruit lollies, mint chocolate semifreddo and green-tea ice-box cake