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Letter: John Murray on how one London borough championed female and ethnic minority staff in management positions 30 years ago ...

He has already turned the Oval Office into a wrestler's changing room. Now the president is building a place so gilded Nero would feel at home. Why did he pick an architect whose speciality is Catholic churches?

Local non-profits and schools are helping students explore traditional practices paired with modern science to make food sovereignty a reality ...

Shadow puppets, otherworldly masks, taxidermy dioramas, from Greek epics to the Brothers Grimm: a new exhibition celebrates the fantastical tales that have passed through countries and cultures ...

Flowing waterways and revving motorcycle engines feature as the artists shortlisted for the prestigious film-making prize prepare to take their work around the UK ...

From a red-throated loon touching down on water, to good and bad hair days, and an airborne squirrel, here is a selection of the finalists in this year's Nikon Comedy Wildlife awards ...

Walker Art Gallery highlights contemporary artists and 'connections, histories and legacies' to mark 250 years since Turner's birth ...

Photographer Jamie James chronicles Sydney's queer and kink performance cultures of the 1990s and early 2000s in Breathing Archive, with dramaturge and performer Victoria Spence. Hosted by Performance Space's Liveworks festival at Sydney's ...

'I have had horrible near-death experiences - driving away from a storm fast and thinking, at any moment, that the car may become airborne'

How the Guardian reported the stealing of art works from the Paris museum including the Mona Lisa in 1911 ...