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Following the Oxfam sex scandal, the EU says charities risk losing their funding if they do not meet ethical standards. Oxfam’s deputy chief executive has resigned while taking “full responsibility” for the scandal. The European Union...

How an old cottage and a sea mist inspired bestselling children’s book illustrator Helen Stephens Helen Stephens and her partner, Gerry Turley, may be from Darlington and Glasgow respectively, but after 17 years in London, they...

A small living space without much light is a challenge. But for the owner of cult brand Darkroom, it just made her more inventive. When it comes to creativity, the blank canvas can have a paralysing...

The Trump family name is not usually associated with high fashion. So news that the tartan associated with the clan of Donald Trump’s Scottish mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, has appeared in one of the biggest campaigns this season...

Victoria Beckham made her first appearance at New York fashion week a decade ago as a novelty act, but she leaves as a headline one. Her Sunday morning catwalk show was her last before she joins London fashion...

Ralph Lauren is shorthand for a lifestyle. The fashion empire of the 91st richest American is built on selling a tastefully expensive American dream. So as an escapist fantasy from a chilly New York fashion week, Ralph...

A Kosovo court has released two policemen who were arrested after surveillance footage allegedly showed one picking up a bullet shell from the scene of the murder of Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic. After a six-hour...

While Angela Merkel’s political deal with the Social Democrats, the SDP, awaits final approval, experts on the Balkans predict that the new coalition will not make major changes towards the Balkans, but some countries might face...

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic suggested that Serbs and Croats should avoid tensions by refraining from talking about their past differences for six months – but what else could they possibly discuss? Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic seems...

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has announced that a planned two-day visit to Croatia will go ahead on Monday and Tuesday – despite contined acrimony between the two countries, and after Serbia’s Defence Minister claimed he could...