Tales of pregnancy and childbirth: the world wide womb

Global traditions have much to teach us on pregnancy and childbirth. In the run-up to Mother's Day, a new book reveals what we can learn from Japan's sumo wrestlers, the generous Finns and Moldova's fear of fish, writes Amy Fleming

Is Botox starting to show its age?

It's only 12 years since Botox was approved for smoothing out our faces, but questions about why we'd want to do that have disappeared. It's time to unfreeze that debate, says Eva Wiseman