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'Why my cats are a blessed constant in a world of uncertainty'
Life is way better with animals in it and on this Love Your Pets Day, writer Kat Brown celebrates the two cats who helped her through IVF and reconnected her with lost loves
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Run For Heroes: the 5km mission we can all get involved in
Run For Heroes has been started to support the NHS during the coronavirus outbreak
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Why books can stop you losing the plot
Feeling down or struggling with low-level anxiety? Turns out biblio-therapy could be the answer
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COVID-19 Global Diaries: 'What it's like having a baby in a pandemic'
New mum Dora Kránicz lives in Hungary and admits the first few weeks with a newborn is a sort of quarantine itself, she also reveals living under the threat of the coronavirus makes even this very different
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Exhausted and disheartened: a doctor on the NHS frontline speaks out
A 37-year-old consultant anaesthetist in central London (who has to remain anonymous) reveals exclusively to Marie Claire the truth about NHS working conditions and helping the sickest coronavirus patients
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Sharon Horgan: 'None of our lives are perfect, it’s the mess behind it people need to see'
BAFTA award-winning actress, writer, producer and director Sharon Horgan on awkward singing scenes, finding humour in the bleakest of situations and why a TV show about Covid-19 is surely just a matter of time…
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The feel-good films you should be watching this week
Because we all need a bit of cheer during these uncertain times, here’s Team Marie Claire’s top film picks to switch off with…
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How to keep dating exciting while social distancing, according to an expert
Because we all need a little help when it comes to love in the time of coronavirus
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Gina Martin: 'We shouldn’t feel guilty about being unproductive during coronavirus’
Activist Gina Martin - who launched a national campaign (and succeeded) to make upskirting illegal last year – shares how her life has changed since lockdown and what she believes coronavirus is teaching us
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The Pukka's six golden rules to living happily together in lockdown
Who else used to moan they never saw enough of their loved ones? LOL. Anna Whitehouse and Matt Farquharson reveal their tips for couples in isolation
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It looks like Harry and Meghan have just quit Instagram
'You've been great!'
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Here's why you need to start running right now
It transforms the body and the mind, anyone can do it, and it starts with just one step. Andrea Childs reports on the power of running - and why now is as good a time to take it up as any...
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Diaries From The Field is the powerful nurse-led movement that we all need to get behind right now
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'I'm working from home with three kids, a dog, a cat and my husband. What can possibly go wrong!'
Best-selling author Charlotte Philby is taking daily advice from her self-isolating schoolteacher mum, ‘Timetable activities, exhaust them with circuit training before breakfast. Don’t become an alcoholic...'
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Why my greatest fear is other people’s children
This Mother's Day will be the strangest one ever thanks to coronavirus and social distancing, but for mum-of-two Lotta Sonninen there's one silver lining - no furniture-destroying, stain-smearing other people's kids will be in her house
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Help! I want sex more than ever but my partner's libido has disappeared
With a pandemic keeping us indoors day and night, we should be having the sex of our lives. So why is it having the opposite effect? Rosie Mullender explores why so many couples have out-of-synch libidos and shares expert tips on getting them aligned
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Empowering podcasts to keep up motivation during self-isolation
If all this time alone has had you daydreaming of your dream career, read on because Jenny Stallard knows a life-changing podcast perfect for you
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Seven ways yoga can help you sleep soundly
Have events of the past few days made it that little bit more difficult to get to sleep? It might be time to pick up the yoga mat...
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Coronavirus: everything you need to know by our Dr Zoe
How long does it last? And am I likely to get it? Marie Claire's Dr Zoe Williams gives you the facts on COVID-19 in the UK
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Gender-based violence protestors in Mexico say 'women are disappearing'
A shocking statistic reveals 10 women in Mexico are killed every day
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London court ruling 'step towards' captured Dubai princesses' freedom
Dubai princesses and sisters Sheikha Shamsa al-Maktoum and Princess Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum have not been seen in public since their failed escapes from the palace
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Pearl Thusi: 'I was tired of Africans feeling like they had been done a favour'
As eagerly-awaited South African crime drama Queen Sono arrives on Netflix, Queen Sono herself – actress Pearl Thusi – tells Sophie Goddard about the role that’s changing history…
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Never-ending 'To Do' lists driving you crazy? Here's how a productivity coach can boost your career
Tired of falling victim to procrastination, writer Marisa Bate decided to pay a visit to a productivity coach - this is what it taught her about success
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It's 50 years since the Women's Liberation Movement, so what's changed?
Half a century ago today, hundreds of fed-up, badass women united to write down their seven basic demands for gender equality. So in the lead up to International Women's Day, we're taking a look at how far we've come
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Director Laura Warner's new film exposes 'heartbreaking' tiger trafficking farms
The leading female film director shares shocking secrets of the illegal tiger trade in South East Asia in her latest documentary: Tigers: Hunting the Traffickers
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#useyourvoice: 'I want to hear about Muslim women who are politicised without being labelled jihadi brides,' says author Sairish Hussain
Born and brought up in Bradford, Sairish has felt the dehumanisation of Muslims from the age of eight. Here she explains why she was compelled to write her debut novel and banish the devastating tropes of racism and radicalisation
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#useyourvoice: ‘He destroyed my face with acid so nobody would love me... but now I'm making my country a safer place ’ says Laxmi Agarwal
Laxmi was 15 when she was brutally attacked by a man furious she had rejected his advances. Her subsequent fight to change the law on acid violence in India made her a global women’s rights advocate and now a new film, Chhapaak, charts her astonishing life story
