The ObserverLife and styleA sizeable questionEverything you ever wanted to know about sex, but were too squeamish to ask'I am an 18-year-old with a serious issue about my penis size. My friends say a normal penis is 7 to 8in when erect, but mine is only 6in. Am I on the small side?' Sebastian Horsley As I'm sure you have heard, I have an unfeasibly large penis. I wouldn't want to tell you exactly what size (your girlfriend might leave you).

FashionObituaryAzzedine Alaïa obituaryFashion designer with a gift for personal couture whose clients included Grace Jones, Madonna and Naomi Campbell Azzedine Alaïa was couture’s rebellious outsider even as he became one of its institutions over 60 years of creativity. He was self-taught, originally from outside Europe, a hands-on craftsman uninterested in fame, wealth and, especially, branding. In a business in which casual cruelty is the norm, he was kind; he helped newcomers, kept open house to a diverse, elective family at his Paris workshop, and ran a salon in the old French sense, as a meeting place for culture and cultures.

Bernie SandersBernie Sanders calls on Congress to block funding to IsraelIsrael’s response ‘has been grossly disproportionate, immoral and in violation of international law’, senator says Bernie Sanders, the progressive senator of Vermont, issued a statement Tuesday calling on Congress to block additional funding to Israel amid the war in Gaza, where more than 22,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks after Hamas killed 1,200 people in Israel on 7 October.

Jack KerouacJack Kerouac(1922-1969)1922-1969 "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles..." BirthplaceMassachusetts, US EducationUniversity of Columbia (football scholarship); dropped out. Other jobsLabourer, mechanic, sports journalist, sailor Did you know?Having enlisted in the US navy during the second world war, he was swiftly discharged as an "

Millennials: the trials of Generation Y UK newsGeneration Y has been labelled a bunch of lazy job-hoppers who expect everything on a plate. The truth is very different Millennials will make up half of the global workforce by 2050. Although generalisations are not helpful, broadly speaking members of this generation, born between 1980 and 1994 and also known as Generation Y, are bound together by the fact they have come of age during a severe financial crisis, have been both the pioneers and guinea pigs of technological change, and are more plugged into a global network than their predecessors.