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Kira Cochrane works from London. Head of features, The Guardian Kira Cochrane has over 11752 followers on Twitter.
Women posed as dead bodies are an advertising staple, including the new Marc Jacobs ad with Miley Cyrus. Why does fashion fetishise the female corpse?
It might seem like asking for trouble, but Iowa is not the only US state to allow blind people to carry guns.
The founder of the women’s website ?notorious for its lurid headlines and confessional writing finds licking eyeballs part of a good days’ work.
As many as 10-million women worldwide have risked having the operation. <b>Kira Cochrane</b> asks why.
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas kept a secret that could have meant his deportation from the United States.
Sexual kicks do not seem to be the reason two men posted as lesbians online.
Playboy is about to open a new club in London aimed at men ‘with money and taste’. But can Hugh Hefner’s brand regain the glamorous sheen it once had?
It might be worth us all occasionally missing a shower or two, then, so long as we don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Is Lady Gaga an important feminist, a force for good? Or is she simply a canny performance artist? <b>Kira Cochrane</b> enters the debate.
<b>Barbara Kingsolver</b>, winner of the Orange prize for fiction, talks about communism, Frida Kahlo and hate mail she received after 9/11.
The Bacon Explosion is one of the most popular recipes on the web. So what is the appeal of this artery-clogging invention? Kira Cochrane reports.
Over the past few days, a music video entitled Red, White and Milf has appeared. It features a cowboy singing a song about Sarah Palin.
Flicking through the newspapers recently I was stopped in my tracks by an image of the new Vanity Fair cover. This shows Nicole Kidman — two-time Oscar nominee, one-time winner —…
What does the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) do when township dwellers refuse to vote in a hostel because of past animosities with its residents? Or when high-profile…
