Traditionally a taboo subject for many Chinese, the topic of dealing with arrangements surrounding a death in the family is an uneasy one.
The cost of where you are laid to rest when you die has been soaring in China almost as quickly as where to live when you're alive.
Matt Chapple is not afraid of gender stereotypes. It's a good job, as this week he made history as the first male winner of the Great British Sewing Bee.
Unwinding on a sun-drenched beach while sipping pina-coladas might seem like the ideal getaway, but Brits are increasingly using their holidays to get fit.
This powerful play about a black, early-20th century boxing champion reaches beyond the sport into race relations, says Ben Lawrence.
The World Health Organisation says we should listen to music for no more than an hour a day. Is that even possible in the modern world?
If a trip to the Great Barrier Reef is beyond your means this year, the Natural History Museum has a novel alternative.
It is enough to send teaspoons clattering into saucers across the country, but according to scientists, four out of five Britons do not brew their tea correctly
Britain is a nation of tea-drinkers - we collectively drink around 65 million cups of the stuff every single day of the year. But untl fairly recently, not much of it was served cold.
When it comes to meat, we Brits aren't as adventurous as we might like to think. We eat two million tonnes of chicken a year (over half of it the boring breasts) and love a good piece of lamb or beef, but animals which are commonly found in supermarkets on the continent-rabbit, say or horse-never make it onto our shelves (well, unless we're unwittingly eating them in a burger, that is).
Among the expensive goodies available from Dolce & Gabbana, the Italian fashion house, is a &250,000 pair of sunglasses, hand-tooled in gold and puckered with diamonds, which uncannily evoke the calamitous eyewear tastes of a certain veteran rock star.
Video blogger (vlogger) Dina Torkia has amassed 150,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel. I am not one of them. Which might explain why I found Muslim Miss World (BBC Three) baffling.
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