An estimated 60,000 grandparents in the UK have had to give up work to bring up their grandchildren to stop them being taken into care by social servi...

Leonard Mlodinow's book Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior delves into how the unconscious mind shapes our experiences of the world, for better or for worse. Everything we experience or choose depends on subtle, unnoticeable perceptions and misperceptions that are part of our unconscious mental landscape.

I found myself recently standing in a grocery store aisle, holding a bottle of barbeque sauce at arm's length in order to bring into focus the ridiculously tiny type. When did children with 20/10 vision start designing all our consumer products? I wondered.

In her latest album, "Bring it on Home," singer-songwriter Joan Osborne has compiled a potent and celebratory brew of vintage blues, R&B and soul, making the most of the voice the New York Times hailed as "angelic ecstasy and sexual abandon."

Today my 63rd birthday looms and the cultural messages are mixed. It feels uncool -- bordering on shameful -- to acknowledge my age. Yet I'm told I should be thrilled because I look young, and that thanks to advances in medicine, "63 is the new 53!"

A friend said something the other day that resonated deeply. When I asked her how she was doing, she responded with a sigh: "I'm OK. But 'OK' is the new 'good,' you know?"

Red wine has long been a controversial libation (and not because of cabernet versus malbec battles). Scientists have gone back and forth over the year...

Actor Tom Wilkinson, who is a industry oxymoron: The star who doesn't enjoy talking about himself. In "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" he plays a member of a group of Brits who decide to "outsource" their retirement to less expensive and exotic India, only to find the destination isn't quite what was promised in the brochure.

Happy birthday, Daniel Day-Lewis! The actor, hailed as one of the greatest of our time, celebrates his 55th today. Day-Lewis, son of Anglo-Irish po...

The court unanimously dismissed an appeal by a solicitor who was told to retire by a law firm just after his 65th birthday. Leslie Seldon, a partne...

Male pensioners aged 65 in the small Somerset village of Hinton St George, population 400, have the highest life expectancy in the UK, at 88.7 years....

Samantha Bond, 50, said women of her age have life experience and interesting stories to tell, yet television executives prefer to fill the screen wit...

Women aged between 50 and 64, dubbed the “Madonna generation,” have fared better than men and any other age group during the jobs crisis, by setti...

The number of over-50s out of work for two years or more surged between December and February as older workers struggled to get back into the labour m...

Millions of older savers and investors are often tempted by bank accounts aimed at the mature market because they assume that these offer better inter...