We can’t predict exactly how you’ll be feeling as the year comes to a close, but our best guess is that you’ll be in need of a breather. Because for many of us, 2025 has not been painless. Political t

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Green is the colour Kareem remembers most. In Rafah, the southern Gaza city where he grew up, there were green fields, farms and countryside. He remembers it being very calm and everything from his sc

Elle’s daughter, two-year-old Ruby has spent most of her life at Great Ormond Street Hospital, now she’s one of the stars in its charity Christmas appeal…

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