Now London's V&A has launched a revolutionary new exhibition space, where visitors can choose from some 250 000 objects, order something they want to spend time ...
MacLeod became a weaver two years ago, joining residents on the islands of Lewis and Harris, off Scotland's northwest coast, in helping to rejuvenate the tweed industry ...
Some of the so-called "reborn" dolls cry, suck dummies, pee, have nails, eyelashes and veins. But what really sets them apart from traditional dolls with waxy, smooth ...
Capybaras are native to South America but in recent years have become popular attractions at zoos worldwide
American scientists have discovered a mysterious dome-shaped specimen deep on the Alaskan seafloor, but nobody knows for sure what it is.
The world's largest store of cryogenically frozen coral is a frosty Noah's Ark for an ecosystem that scientists warn could be the first to disappear if climate change ...
Russia's invasion has triggered a mental health crisis in Ukraine, with more than half of respondents to a recent survey feeling "anxiety and tension" . If only ...
It is barely visible, and needs no irrigation or fertilisers: lying off the coast of Australia is a vast seaweed crop destined to curb livestock's climate-altering ...
Widely regarded as east Africa's most influential writer, Ngugi wa Thiong'o sought to forge a body of literature reflecting the land and people from which he came, ...
The Slovak government has decided to allow the consumption of brown bear meat, angering environmentalists who this week slammed the move as absurd and giving a boost ...
Out west, they groove with fast, evenly spaced beats. In the east, it's more free-form and fluid. Like humans, chimpanzees drum with distinct rhythms.
At 17, Joyce Malindi won her first beauty contest under the suffocating limits of apartheid South Africa. Fifty-five years later, she was back on the catwalk, silver ...
A posse of turban-clad soldiers perched on "ships of the desert" may conjure images of the past but Mauritania's camelback cavalry plays a vital role in the fight ...
Ghost, a pseudonym, is one of a growing number of Accra's teenagers turning to cybercrime to survive in a country mired in economic crisis, battling both youth unemployment ...
A rare work by the painter LS Lowry, known for his depictions of English working-class life, originally bought for 10 pounds is expected to fetch up to £1 million ...
In the skies above the bunkers where Indian and Pakistani soldiers trade gunfire, masters of an ancient sport beloved on both sides seek to snatch prized pigeons ...
Whether chomping on local fare such as pasta carbonara or veal cutlets wrapped in ham, Catholic cardinals, who are meeting in the Vatican this week to prepare for ...
A rare work by the painter LS Lowry, known for his depictions of English working-class life, originally bought for 10 pounds is expected to fetch up to £1 million ...
Troops are facing off along the 770-kilometre fortified Line of Control - the route of a ceasefire line dating back to 1949 - which ranges from icy outposts in high-altitude ...
"He showed his humanity and that allows us to live on," his inconsolable father Syed Haidar Shah said from their modest home nestled on wooded slopes.
At the Los Angeles event on Friday night, a man in a lab coat used pipettes to place samples of semen - collected from contestants ahead of time - onto tiny two-millimeter-long ...
Sweden is getting up a head of steam for what could be a record number of Eurovision wins this year with a humorous sauna act.
Eighty years after the end of World War II, people all over the world are still discovering the fate of their family members sent to Adolf Hitler's Nazi death camps. ...
Making incisions and carefully taking samples, the scientists at a laboratory in Russia's far east looked like pathologists carrying out a post-mortem. But the body ...