Woolly boobs: laughable, sobering and surprisingly useful
Residents of one village on the Isle of Lewis are clubbing together to knit 250 brightly coloured breasts for use in a new government campaign
Cindy Crawford’s leaked pictures hit back at the tyranny of Photoshop
‘Just last year, a man tweeted me, after we covered a story on food banks, and suggested that maybe if I stopped eating the contents of everyone’s fridge there would be more food for everyone else’
Blood lust: why period sex shouldn’t be taboo in Hollywood or anywhere else
The filmmakers cut the infamous ‘tampon scene’ from Fifty Shades of Grey without understanding why fans found it sexy instead of disgusting
Why do women get so much grief when they run?
Yes, men get comments too – but street harassment of female runners is par for the course. It shouldn’t be this way
‘We used our kitchens to kickstart a whole new industry’
The personal wellness trend shows no signs of slowing down. We meet the businesswomen behind the ‘clean eating’ revolution
Woman arrested at Heathrow for conspiracy to commit FGM
Zimbabwe-born British national was arrested as she boarded a flight from London to Ghana via Amsterdam with an eight-year-old girl
In Egypt, social pressure means FGM is still the norm
Efforts by UN and others to educate parents and doctors could take a generation in country where practice is endemic
For her family, her FGM was a cause of joy. For Mariam, it was day of horror
Egyptian campaigner tells how trauma of her own procedure led her to make different choice for her daughter, despite her mother’s objections
I witnessed FGM. That’s why I know we need to talk about it
I saw my cousin being cut and faced a wall of silence when I tried to discuss it: the only way we’ll stop FGM, no matter where it occurs, is by breaking down that silence
UN calls for FGM zero tolerance after a year in which the world woke up
Following 12 months of historic change and growing FGM awareness, UN calls for concrete action against cutting girls and women