It couldn't be easier to add life to soil, says Peter Dowdall.

Milky skincare ingredients keep skin fresh and often suit the whole family, it’s moo-vellous, writes Rachel Marie Walsh.

We take a trip down memory lane and check out what happened on this day in years gone by by looking back at some Irish Examiner front pages and highlighting other events which went down in history across the world.

Those who are serious about skincare know that exfoliating acids are nothing new. In fact, Cleopatra herself may have been aware of chemical exfoliation, bathing in lactic acid rich milk.

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Rita de Brún says it is cruel to call older women who date younger men ‘cougars’. They just want loving, fulfilling relationships.

Still reeling from the decision to make Wonder Woman a UN ambassador for gender equality, Suzanne Harrington pays tribute to the real wonder women of our time.

The Egyptian-Revival style was made popular by a little French man with a huge vision, writes Kya deLongchamps.

NOTHING will come of nothing, King Lear famously declares as he considers dividing his kingdom between his daughters commensurate with their expressions of love for him.

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There is no evidence that humans emit pheromones to lure sexual partners, but our natural body scents can be highly attractive, says Sharon Ni Chonchuir.

ENGLAND: A master blender is to have his tastebuds insured by a leading tea company for £1m (€1.26m).

Back in 2007, an entire year’s supply of Boots’ No 7 Protect & Perfect Serum sold out in two weeks. Now Boots has launched a new version of the serum. Margaret Carragher gives it a month-long trial.

THIS time it’s not the White House that’s embroiled in a sexual scandal, it’s the Elysée Palace. Location apart, there’s nothing to beat a full-dress political scandal except, that is, a full-undress one.

JANUARY, from Janus, the Roman double-faced god facing in opposite directions, is here.

Colin Farrell has revealed he had a “romantic relationship” with Elizabeth Taylor shortly before the screen legend died.

Colin Farrell struck up an unlikely friendship with the screen legend Elizabeth Taylor, who died aged 79 in 2011, after meeting her manager at hospital in 2009, when his youngest son, Henry, was being born and Elizabeth was there to get a stint in her heart.

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Heidi Klum is fed up of people asking her how it feels to be 40

Ang Lee wants to direct Angelina Jolie in 'Cleopatra'.

T’S my mother’s birthday. She’s trying on a wig in my brother’s kitchen. Not because she wants to. My brother found the wig in his children’s toy box and wants us all to try it on. My siblings and I know the look in my brother’s eye from childhood; rolling over like a dog is our only option. He’s not made it to CEO for nothing.

An exhibition of Monroe memorabilia in Italy proves that the iconic actress was a modern-day Venus, says Daisy Goodwin

A last word on Con Houlihan?

Way to make an entrance — 26-year-old Madonna Ciccone burst onto the pop scene in style at the inaugural MTV Video Music Awards in 1984.

THE best ingredients in beauty products can be everyday ones: olive oil is excellent for dry skin; egg whites turn a good trick in your hair (despite being gross to use); and milk’s brilliance is nothing new.

Kathryn Rudge is savouring her role in Opera North’s production of Giulio Cesare in Dublin next week, Nikki ffrench Davis reports

MY DAUGHTER comes into the kitchen from the sitting room, where she’s been watching Snog, Marry, Avoid, and asks me why there are so few women politicians.

The Marilyn Monroe dress that flirted revealingly with a gust of New York subway air in The Seven Year Itch fetched $4.6m at a Los Angeles auction of film memorabilia.

Angelina Jolie was told off for doing "horrible voices" while recording the 'Kung Fu Panda' sequel.

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'Sex And The City' star Kim Cattrall kept fans guessing today about whether there would be a third movie of the hit series.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are being lined up to play lovers in a new film.

EGYPT’S top archaeologist made his version of a sales pitch yesterday, presenting 22 coins, 10 mummies, and a fragment of a mask with a cleft chin as evidence that the discovery of the lost tomb of Mark Antony and Cleopatra is at hand.

The tombs of doomed lovers Cleopatra and Mark Anthony may have been discovered in Egypt, scientists announced today.

IT IS early April and the train from Budejovice in the Czech Republic to Linz in Austria takes us through a wintry countryside, not a wild flower, weed or blade of new grass yet to be seen.

Hugh Jackman has pulled out of Roman epic 'Cleo' and will no longer play Catherine Zeta-Jones' lover in the big-budget 3-D musical.

The mother of one of five prostitutes found murdered during a 10-day period had “no idea” that her daughter was a sex worker, a jury heard today.

Egyptian antiquities experts are poised to announce what is billed as the top archaeological discovery since the 1922 find of Tutankhamun’s tomb – that a mummy housed in the Cairo Museum is actually that of Queen Hatshepsut.

Dame Helen Mirren’s regal role in The Queen has landed her a string of nominations and high-profile awards to rival her success in Prime Suspect.

Galatee will face the biggest test by far of her short career when she puts her unbeaten record on the line in the Vodafone Oaks at Epsom on Friday.

Renata Tebaldi, an Italian soprano who was one of the biggest stars at New York’s Metropolitan Opera and Italy’s La Scala, died today, her doctor said. She was 82.

Playboy memorabilia, including a topless photograph of Marilyn Monroe, was going on sale today at an auction coinciding with the 50th birthday of the men’s magazine.

A topless photograph of Marilyn Monroe and a limousine once used by Playboy boss Hugh Hefner will go on sale next week at an auction to coincide with the 50th birthday of the men’s magazine.