One of the great masterpieces of 19th-century western art was loosely inspired by one of the greats of 19th-century Japanese art, it has been argued. Martin Bailey, a specialist on Vincent van Gogh, believes that the...

Pastor Jin Mingri has felt firsthand the pain of one of Chinese president Xi Jinping’s harshest crackdowns on religion in years. Jin’s Zion Church in Beijing, one of the biggest unofficial congregations in the country, was abruptly...

A Papua New Guinean plane has sunk in a lagoon after overshooting the runway in the Federated States of Micronesia. All passengers were reportedly rescued safely from Air Niugini’s partially submerged Boeing 737-800, after local fishers took...

Republicans have said the Senate judiciary committee will vote on the supreme court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, after a full day of extraordinary testimony on Capitol Hill that saw his accuser share her emotional story of sexual...

Women who use modern forms of the combined pill are at a lower risk of developing ovarian cancer than women who don’t take hormonal contraception, research suggests. The study backs up previous findings for older forms...

It was 6.59am on Wednesday when Jair Bolsonaro fired off his first tweet of the day from what must rank as one of the most unusual campaign headquarters in political history. “While they insist on fallacies, labels and...

Christine Blasey Ford, the California professor who has accused the supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers, will tell the US Senate judiciary committee on Thursday that she will “never forget” what...

What used to be the world’s biggest photography trade fair, the Photokina in Cologne, is now home to everything to do with images. The soon-to-be annual event has worked hard to adapt to changing consumer demands....

The controversial rapper and his wife have broken their silence, saying they are free of the German-Arab mafia clan run by Bushido’s former business partner, Arafat Abou-Chaker. Anna-Maria Ferchichi, the wife of star rapper Bushido, has...

As Russia, the EU and China eye the Western Balkans, it may be that the old colonial power, Turkey, is best placed to play a key role in the region. And this perhaps because of, not...