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'Just checking up': The links between snooping on your partner, and domestic abuse

This kind of controlling behaviour can isolate partners, and experts believe, lead to domestic abuse. From reading messages, to Geotagging, or recording conversations - do we need help finding boundaries in the digital age?
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The hottest tables now put diners in the thick of the action - the kitchen

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Will this take the magic out of fine dining, asks Clare Hargreaves?
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More than half of those signed up to Dry January have already lapsed

More than half of Dry January pledges have already fallen off the wagon

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How close are we to machines outsmarting man?

She's electric: some scientists believe that robots with consciousness, such as Ava in 'Ex Machina', are only 'a couple of breakthroughs away'
Alex Garland's film Ex Machina explores the limits of artificial intelligence. Having watched it, Rhodri Marsden found himself celebrating the joys of humanity
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All cigarettes likely to be sold in plain packets by next year

Packs will be allowed to have a brand name and a variant name but little else apart from health warnings.
Packaging will be allowed to have a brand name, but little else apart from health warnings
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Solar-powered, DIY lamp made from a plastic bottle is transforming lives

Shine on: a ‘Liter of Light’ plastic bottle provides illumination in the Granizal area of Antioquia, Colombia
A charity has pledged to create a million green, off-the-power-grid lights in 2015 using an ingenious design
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The NHS may not be protected from cuts if the Tories win next year's election

NHS waiting times for cancer treatment and and routine operations 'will be worse after next election,' says expert

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Since when was this a beauty issue?

Vaginas have become the new talking point, as the labiaplasty and 'vagacials' are on the rise
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The benefits to babies of breastfeeding are unequivocal, according to campaigners

Mothers prevented from breastfeeding, at a conference designed to promote breastfeeding

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Care homes will face a 'tough' new inspection regime

Care for elderly in state of 'calamitous decline' amid £1bn of austerity cuts

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Women are offered a range of safe options for childbirth and most have a positive experience

Women may experience more pain during childbirth if their partner is present, study suggests

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Glass half full: reaching a conclusion on the health benefits or dangers of alcohol is difficult

The benefits of boozing?

Jeremy Laurance explains that the one thing we love as much as drinking is studies that say it's good for us
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Why does so much of the NHS's surgical equipment start life in the sweatshops of Pakistan?

Sweatshop scalpels: the conditions in some factories in Sialkot have improved, but small backstreet workshops are still unregulated and unsafe
Keeping down prices means exploiting and endangering the workers, sometimes children as young as seven. Louise Tickle reports
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Why boobs are still news

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The Sun appears to have stopped publishing topless models on Page 3. Now boobs are being shown on women's terms, says Gillian Orr
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Weird celebrity diets: From Dolly Parton's smelly cabbage soup to Elizabeth Taylor's stinky dip

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Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome: Campaigning to develop better treatments for twins

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The science behind female ejaculation

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Is detoxing really worth it?

We choose the most miserable month of the year to restrict our few pleasures, but the human body has evolved to get rid of unnecessary substances on its own
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NHS dentists currently earn an average of £74,000 (Getty)

Dentists breach NHS rules with unclear pricing and guidance

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Not such a great birthday party?

Five-year-old reportedly invoiced £15 for failing to turn up to friend's birthday party

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The number of alcohol-related deaths of women born in the 1970s has 'disproportionately increased' since the middle of the last decade

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Have a heart: haggis cannot be exported to the US

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Microsoft exec Terry Myerson launches Windows 10

Real-life holograms are coming to Windows

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Manager John Gold, owner Valerie Johnson and her daughter Carlyn Johnson from the Fryer of Frankie's celebrate winning the UK's Best Independent Takeaway Fish and Chip Shop of the Year

Best fish and chip shop in the UK announced at National Awards

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Christopher Poole created the site aged 15 as a place for manga fans

4chan founder ‘Moot’ quits controversial site after 12 years

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Young women are often 'coerced into having painful anal sex', a study says

The most dangerous sex position revealed in study

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Fancy a lie-in on weekends? New study finds it could lead obesity and diabetes

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How 'A Girl Called Jack' revolutionised budget cooking

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The London eye is lit up red

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One in seven British beer buyers bought non-alcoholic varieties in 2013

A drink a night 'is better for your heart than none at all'

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