Swollen and sore feet are a common pregnancy problem.
Comzeal images/Shutterstock
Nine months is a long time to have sore feet but these easy remedies can ease the pain.
My dear friend.
Harish Tyagi/EPA
The bonhomie between Narendra Modi and Binyamin Netanyahu is rooted in the admiration of generations of Hindu nationalists for Israel.
shutterstock
Only 9% of people in the UK are privately educated, and yet they occupy an especially high share in positions of public influence.
Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres in The Sheik (1921).
Panned as rubbish when it was published in 1919, The Sheik spawned a legendary movie and hundreds of desert romances, despite its questionable central theme.
Willy Barton via Shutterstock
The review contains some great ideas. It remains to be seen whether these will ever see the light of day.
EPA/Stephanie Lecocq
Tech firms should be forced to reassess how they impact society under existing EU law.
Protestors during a demonstration over the recent fuel price increase in the suburb of Warren Park, Harare. January 15, 2019.
EPA Images
Mugabe is gone, but chaos reigns.
PA/Clodagh Kilcoyne
The Conservative Party might not be able to survive the fallout if May worked with the opposition against her own MPs.
Shutterstock
Why altruism is in shorter supply than the industry wants you to believe
Damian Gadal/Flickr
Our brain processes the fear of regret in the same way as actual regret, making us reluctant to make changes in life.
Learning to climb.
Zsolt Biczo/Shutterstock
Encouraging your baby to be active can improve their health in other areas too.
Christian Bale as Dick Cheney in Vice.
Entertainment One/Annapurna
Christian Bale is phenomenal as Dick Cheney, but that only makes it harder to capture his essence on film.
FloridaStock/Shutterstock
Polar bears ‘invading’ a Russian village have renewed concern over climate change in the Arctic, but human-wildlife conflicts are flaring up everywhere.
shutterstock.
Viktoriia Hnatiuk/Shutterstock
Linking household income, happiness, and alcohol-related depression, researchers have put a price on the intangible cost of drinking.
Women played a prominent part in Iran’s 1979 revolution.
Wikimedia Commons
Hostility to Iran’s revolution from both the West and in the region is as virulent now as it was in February 1979.
The littlest robo.
OlVic
Soft robots printed in the home? Not as far off as you might think.
The pine marten – cute but cunning.
Karen Bullock/Flickr
We should welcome a native predators’ return across the British Isles, while at the same time being honest about the implications.
Kevin Standage/Shutterstock
Let’s worry about the future of Brexit, not its prehistory.
Tongue splitting: one of the procedures the defendant was convicted for.
Shutterstock
A body modification practitioner has been convicted of causing grievous bodily harm with intent – even though he had the consent of the ‘victims’.
The Earth’s magnetosphere bangs like a drum.
E. Masongsong/UCLA, M. Archer/QMUL, H. Hietala/UTU
The Earth’s magnetic field has a beat, scientists discover.
Anett / shutterstock
Many roses are grown in energy-intensive greenhouses, shipped long distances or treated with chemicals. Here’s what to ask your florist or supermarket.
cosmaa/Shutterstock
Mistaken links between the EU and the European Convention on Human Rights could be one factor that sees the UK losing out on these vital supranational laws.
A magical sight.
Ronel Reyes/Flickr.
The northern lights might look like magic, but they can actually be explained by science – here’s how.
Loneliness is being medicalised.
PrinceOfLove/Shutterstock
By trying to tackle just the health impact of loneliness, scientists risk ignoring the underlying causes.
EPA/Stephanie LeCocq
Majority thinks Brussels is playing hardball – but a generational divide is apparent, as so often in the Brexit debate.