Our staff and contributors look back on the city’s year in art, from blockbusters to under-the-radar art heroes and unsung ...

As we're going to see in this programme, our puppet's actual shape is the product of one of the most dramatic religious changes of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. While Spain was converting the ...

One of the most powerful ethnic minority armed groups battling Myanmar’s army claims it has captured the last military ...

A centuries-old bell rang and an archbishop knocked at the Gothic cathedral’s great doors, which reopened for a V.I.P.

Known as Occitanie, the southeast region takes in a variety of landscapes, from the snow-capped ski slopes of the Catalan ...

Five years after a fire nearly felled the cathedral that has dazzled visitors for almost 900 years, the heart of Paris beats ...

The man on trial in the killing of University of Mississippi student Jimmie “Jay” Lee gave conflicting information to police about how well he and Lee knew each other, according to testimony Friday by ...

The Mercator Projection, Ptolemy’s ‘Geographia’, the Fra Mauro Map, and even Google Maps have all shaped how we experience ...

Colour, the painter Patrick Heron once proclaimed, is a continent that artists have yet to explore. The mammoth two-volume The Book of Colour Concepts (Taschen, £150) catalogues numerous attempts ...

ABB has acquired Solutions Industry & Building (SIB), a French manufacturer of premium cable glands and electrical products, to expand its po ...

History nerd? Got maps on your wall? The Map Myths website allows you to explore the mythical places on ancient maps.

Europa-Park, tucked away in the little town of Rust in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, is an epic theme park that has yet to be ...