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MediaPosh floored as Ali G tackles BecksMediaGuardian.co.ukFor David and Victoria Beckham, ridicule is an occupational hazard. But rarely can Britain's first couple have been subjected to as uncomfortable a 40 minutes as that spent being grilled by Ali G for Comic Relief. Previously the pair have agreed only to the meekest of interrogations, but this exchange was a world away from Michael Parkinson. Over the course of a 40-minute interview, which will be edited for broadcast on March 16, the couple were subjected to the full blast of the comic's singular style. [Read More]

ME / Chronic fatigue syndromeLettersPros and cons of ME therapyProf Philip Graham and Dr John Cookson on what works best in cases of those with myalgic encephalomyelitis It is surprising the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) should even be considering stopping advising doctors to administer graded exercise therapy (GET) and cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) in cases of myalgic encephalomyelitis (UK health standards body delays new ME guidance in therapy row, 17 August). [Read More]

The Full Body Project by Leonard Nimoy – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email These photos of full-figured women were taken by the late Leonard Nimoy in 2007 to challenge entrenched concepts of beauty. They echo the work of artists from Botticelli to Matisse and Helmut Newton. The models are from a burlesque group in San Francisco, the Fat Bottom Revue. [Read More]

Sex The secret to female orgasm? Try the 'golden trio' of moves – video It’s often been described as ‘elusive’ but a study from a team of US researchers suggests that a combination of genital stimulation, deep kissing and oral sex is the ‘golden trio’ for women when it comes to increasing their likelihood of reaching orgasm with a sexual partner Source: Getty Fri 24 Feb 2017 03. [Read More]

Weather trackerExtreme weatherAnalysisWeather tracker: deaths after first heavy snowfall of winter hits eastern EuropeAlice Fowle (Metdesk)Thousands of towns and villages in Moldova, Ukraine and Bulgaria left without electricity as cold snap bites Heavy snowfall and blizzards across eastern European countries this week have resulted in a number of deaths, and left thousands of towns and villages without electricity, after the first major cold snap of the season. In Moldova, four people were reported dead over the weekend, with two bodies being recovered from cars that had been buried in snowdrifts. [Read More]

Health & wellbeing'I can't imagine not sharing my life with this machine'Patricia LeBlack may be the longest-surviving kidney dialysis patient in the world. Emine Saner meets herAttached to a machine with tubes disappearing into her arm, Patricia LeBlack, dressed in a loose cotton top that keeps slipping off her narrow shoulder, might look frail but when she speaks there is nothing feeble about her. She shouts to the man in the bed opposite, on the renal ward of the Royal Free hospital in north London, who is hooked up to an identical machine, and she jokes with the staff, who call her " [Read More]

A new start after 60Life and styleDr Gladys McGarey thought she would never recover when her husband and work partner walked out after 46 years. Then she found her voice, happiness and her own direction ‘It’s hard to put a size on things that happen in your life,” Gladys McGarey says. At 102, it’s understandable she would feel that way. Shortly before she was 70, her husband, Bill, to whom she had been married for 46 years, handed her divorce papers. [Read More]

OpinionGermanyCan Europe’s new ‘conservative left’ persuade voters to abandon the far right?Cas MuddeSahra Wagenknecht’s new party aims to transform German politics – but like its peers across western Europe, it may struggle Germany’s favourite “firebrand politician”, Sahra Wagenknecht, has finally launched her long-awaited new party, the awkwardly named Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) – Reason and Fairness. After years of speculation, the German and some of the international media went into overdrive, predicting that the “leftwing conservative” party (Wagenknecht talks about combining job security, higher wages and generous benefits with a restrictive immigration and asylum policy) would “shake up” the German party system and “could eat into the far right’s support”. [Read More]

ShortcutsPhotographyThe latest selfie craze is chucking your phone in the air and trying to photograph yourself ‘self-fiving’ before it lands. In the name of important investigative journalism, we gave it a try In the latest in an occasional series we call Discoveries of Omnifarious Mankind’s Evolutionary Developments (Doomed for short), we bring news of the high-five selfie. “Today is the proudest day of my life,” wrote North Carolina student Seth Schneider, in a post on Twitter that has been shared more than 170,000 times. [Read More]

Art and designInterviewExpressionist painter Sylvia Snowden: ‘White people will show some Black art … then it wears off’Elizabeth FullertonOver a six-decade career the American artist has worked ‘twice as hard’ to bring her vivid, colourful figures to an audience. On the eve of her first major UK show, she talks race, representation and the human spirit that unites us Sylvia Snowden’s monumental expressionistic paintings hit you in the gut. Bodies arch, hunch and contort, emanating suffering, fear, joy and aspiration. [Read More]