In the second half of the 19th Century, photography became one of the British Empire’s most persuasive instruments for knowing – and classifying – India. A...
A co-founder of online fashion giant Asos died after falling from a high-rise apartment block in Thailand, police have said. Quentin Griffiths has been named by...
A Japanese city has received a hefty donation to help fix its ageing water system: 21kg (46lb) in gold bars. The gold bars, worth an estimated...
Several countries which have signed up to Donald Trump’s Board of Peace have contributed more than $7bn (£5.2bn) towards a Gaza “relief package”, the US president...
At least 33 miners have died in a suspected carbon-monoxide leak at a lead and zinc mine in central Nigeria’s Plateau state, witnesses have told the...
More than a year after a 33-year-old woman froze to death on Austria’s highest mountain, her boyfriend goes on trial on Thursday accused of gross negligent...
Six Russian and four Belarusian athletes will compete under their nations’ flags at the upcoming Winter Paralympics. In September, the International Paralympic Committee lifted its ban...
US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson died aged 84 on Tuesday morning surrounded by relatives, according to a statement released by his family. “It is with...
An elephant foot bone found by archaeologists digging in southern Spain may be evidence that a troop of war elephants stomped through ancient Europe. It would...
Specialist online investigator Greg Squire had hit a dead end in his efforts to rescue an abused girl his team had named Lucy. Disturbing images of...