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Green and confused: Gadget geeks at home

How can I pull the plug without seeming mean?

How to learn to love a cold climate

Times correspondents in some of the world's chilliest regions describe how to wrap up and weather the big freeze

Every little helps at the supermarket

A to-do list for the supermarket tsar

A doctor, a daughter and a man called Johnny

After Johnny Hallyday's daughter was found unconscious in Paris, we look at the latest drama in a French legend’s life

Take it from an expert: the fireman

Story behind the picture: The burning books

Bradford, February 1989

The stepfamily files: flirty stepdaughter?

How to cope when a stepdaughter appears to be behaving inappropriately

Why British children are pushed too hard

British children are pushed too hard, too early at school. One writer explains how daughters read less but learnt a lot more in Africa

Urban flocks: Brighton’s new shepherds

As shepherds watch their flocks by street light, Brighton and Hove Council is using sheep to save its grassy downlands

Eton, Oxford, then down and out

Homelessness is hitting a much broader section of society than we care to imagine. There is of the growing ranks of sofa surfers

Meet the lipstick entrepreneurs

Trendspotters are forecasting huge gains for women in business over the next decade. We meet the new band of sisters doing it for themselves

Going up

The secret to living a good life

Happiness is something that all of us, rich or poor, can easily achieve. Here, we reveal the key to self-fulfilment

So, what really makes you happy?

Chocolate? Not exactly. Fame? Don’t think so. Seven writers and novelists reflect on what makes them truly content

Why I hate corporate holiday emails

I couldn't care less if a computer wishes me a happy new year.

Microtrends

"Unnecessary quotes"

Three to watch

Who, what, wear

The happiness professor

Dr Martin Seligman is the unofficial father of positive psychology, the controversial study of human happiness. Alan Franks visits him to discover...

Welcome to the happiest place in Britain

What is it about Powys that, according to research presented at the Royal Geographical Society, makes its inhabitants the most content in the land?

My big-bum blues in an Italian lingerie shop

Italians are slim because their food is disgusting