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Those Sex And The City girls have sent pubic lice to the land of extinction
Friday 05 July 2013
Thanks to hair removal, the world pubic lice population is dwindling fast and the insects are in danger of disappearing forever
Sex and the City credited with ridding the world of pubic lice
Thursday 04 July 2013
'Brazilian' bikini waxing cited as precipitating decline in cases of the ancient pest
I'd stop watching TV, but I've got all these programmes to catch up on
Friday 14 June 2013
A nice, meaty box-set will always trump a dissertation. Face it, says, Eleanor Doughty, we're never going to escape the flickering lure of the screen...
Big Brother 2013: Day one in the BB house
Friday 14 June 2013
A heavily tattooed glamour model, a former male escort and a woman who runs a "gold-digger" website are among the bunch of housemates who tonight began a stint on TV's Big Brother.
Sex And The City's Kim Cattrall says she's coming to terms with taking 'older women' roles
Tuesday 11 June 2013
Sex And The City star Kim Cattrall says she has come to terms with taking on "older woman" roles as she prepares for her latest West End part.
Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell’s new novel leaked online by celebrity hacker Guccifer
Wednesday 08 May 2013
The first 38,000 words of an unpublished novel by Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell has been leaked online by a hacker.
Baking: Shares in cake frosting go cold
Thursday 18 April 2013
In great news for patisserie purists and weight watchers everywhere (but a potential catastrophe for fans of icing): the cult of the cupcake may at last be coming to an end.
Tourism: The Girls girls' new TV tour
Wednesday 20 March 2013
Despite a lot of its most famous shows (Friends, Seinfeld, Taxi) being filmed in warehouses in Los Angeles, New York City has made the most of its use as a setting in TV and films. Or, at least, entrepreneurial locals have done. Kenny Kramer (Larry David’s ex-neighbour, the “real” Kramer who inspired the character) offers weekend tours of famous spots from Seinfeld.
Sex and the Citadel, By Shereen El Feki
Friday 15 March 2013
This survey of sexual habits across the Arab world is as serious-minded as it is entertaining.
Television choices: Network is out to despoil the stunning cast's perfect world
Saturday 12 January 2013
TV pick of the week: Utopia
An American Christmas: Why are we sacrificing British traditions for a yankified yuletide?
Friday 21 December 2012
Candy canes a-plenty and silver lanes aglow; Christmas is undergoing a transformation, but it's not too late to stop it
Sarah Storey: It's a massive surprise there are three Paralympians nominated for Sports Personality of the Year
Sunday 09 December 2012
I was shocked to be nominated for Sports Personality of the Year And it’s a massive surprise that we’ve got two other Paralympians nominated too [swimmer Ellie Simmonds and wheelchair racer David Weir]. Ellie’s career had a similar start to mine [the 18-year-old Paralympian won two golds at each of the past two Paralympics] but although I had five medals by the time I was 18, I was unheard of. The previous five Paralympic Games I was involved in went under the radar – this was my sixth. So that difference is an easy way to measure how far we’ve come [with disabled sport].
‘Girls’ is not diverse, not feminist and not empowering
Wednesday 24 October 2012
Lena Dunham's hit show has been applauded for representing real women - but where exactly is the feminism?
![Suzman (left) says of Cattrall: 'She was scathing about Sex and the City 2 to me, but she knows perfectly well that those [films], while ghastly, are her bread and butter, and everything else she does is jam; she and I only do jam together.'](http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article8007731.ece/ALTERNATES/w80/AssetAccess.jpg "Suzman (left) says of Cattrall: 'She was scathing about Sex and the City 2 to me, but she knows perfectly well that those [films], while ghastly, are her bread and butter, and everything else she does is jam; she and I only do jam together.'")
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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