A moment that changed meSex This article is more than 8 years oldA moment that changed me: waking up with a bad hangover – and two menThis article is more than 8 years oldAnonymousAt first, after I became single, being free to have sex with any man I wanted was thrilling and fun. And then it wasn’t I woke up in a strange bed, naked, between two naked men. My brain felt like it had been soaked in beer and Jägermeister, the furniture seemed to dance in front of me, and for some reason my nose felt very present on my face.

‘I think social media is stupid’… Dorothy Wiggins at home in New York City. Photograph: Maria Spann/The GuardianDorothy Wiggins was devastated when her husband died. But she was determined to embrace life, and quickly found fame when a journalist friend started filming her escapades in New York by Ammar KaliaIn 2020, three months after his 100th birthday, Dorothy Wiggins’ husband, Guy, died. They had been married for 61 years. “We never fought,” she says.

First world war This article is more than 8 years oldBletchley Park celebrates codebreakers who changed course of first world warThis article is more than 8 years oldExhibition brings to light work of MI1(b) and Room 40, latter of which helped bring US into Great War after deciphering Zimmermann telegram In January 1917 British codebreakers known as Room 40, named after their original cramped space at the Admiralty, intercepted and deciphered a German secret message which changed the course of the first world war, helping to bring the US into the conflict.

UK newsObituaryCynthia Payne obituaryStreatham brothel-keeper whose ‘personal services’ inspired a film and books, and launched her on a celebrity careerCynthia Payne, who has died aged 82, was the quintessentially English madam whose career as an eccentric suburban brothel-keeper led to a film, books and a career as a “naughty but nice” celebrity. Unrepentant to the end, in her later years she expressed the hope that her life story might be turned into a musical.

New EuropePoland This article is more than 12 years oldDebunking stereotypes: Polish women are all beautifulThis article is more than 12 years oldHeinrich Heine sang their praises at least a century ago, but the men don't get much of a look inThe notion of Polish women being of unparalleled beauty is an old one: the 19th-century German Heinrich Heine was a big fan, describing the "schöne Polin" as an "angel on earth"