Our marathon trainees share their top 10 running tracks. What do you have on your iPod when you're exercising? The improver: Matt Kurton Music is my constant companion when I run. It is there urging me forward when things get tough. It is there to put a smile on my face when the rain beats down and ...

Or for anyone else who wants to look sharp without compromising their safety, really. The maker of the cool man’s Snuggie, the Blankoat, has now come out with a bulletproof handkerchief dubbed The Damned, made from “lemon Military Grade Ballistic Strength Aramid Fibre - to protect the he...

Bowman9991 writes "Bryan Fuller, creator of the TV show Pushing Daisies and a former Star Trek writer and producer, is geared up to make it happen. The new Star Trek TV show would be based on "old style" Star Trek, rather than the more recent incarnations and variations: Deep Space Nine, Voyager, ve...

Rachel Platt thought boxing was the preserve of thuggish men. But the lure of flat abs and a pert bottom finally convinced her to step into the ring I've always sat on my high horse when it comes to boxing. I've had no problems expressing my oh-so-middle-class distaste at such an aggressive, thuggis...

High heels cripple your feet, give you bunions and do terrible things to your back - and what's worse, they are getting ever higher. So why on earth do so many women inflict such pain upon themselves, asks Hadley Freeman Personally, it's always the veins that get me: those poor, popping veins strain...

For years the identity of the author of the much-loved Living with Teenagers column has been a mystery. Becky Gardiner explains why she kept the secret – and why the writer has come clean I still remember how I felt when I read the first instalment of the ­Living with Teenagers column, which ran ...

Hospital admissions for teenagers with anorexia have risen 80% over the last decade. Laurie Penny, who had the condition for years, explains why more help is needed for this most deadly of mental illnesses In 2003, I was intent on avoiding mirrors. They were the enemy. They reflected back wasted lim...

It was a hard-fought battle, but we can finally reveal the results of our online search to find Britain's top dog. And the winner is ... Tosca, the most heroic dog! In pictures: The six shortlisted dogs Ladies, gentlemen, canine friends, we have a winner. After we posted our Grufts shortlist of six ...

While trudging through last night's moribund and unfunny home foreclosure-themed Simpsons episode, we suddenly got to wondering... Is it possible to laugh about the looming New Depression? OK, so there was a funny Peppermint Patty is a lesbian laff. But other than that, we sat through 22 minutes of ...

I like to gripe about Top 40 radio, but I don't have much of a technical music vocabulary. Are there names for the vocal styles of Avril Lavigne, Taylor Swift, et al.? Recently I found myself trying to articulate the particular way that these singers deliver lines, and I quickly ended up using unsat...