Human waste, drug paraphernalia and piles of garbage. For four years, staff at Willie’s Café cleared their front patio every morning before opening, until they eventually shut it down and packed away ...

In November, Sri Lanka was hit by the devastating Cyclone Ditwah. Credit: Ishara S. KODIKARA / AFP via Getty Images An unusually intense series of storms and major cyclones converged in South and ...

Mary Lincoln is a woman under siege — with her grief, her detractors, and herself. In the shadow of her late husband, President Abraham Lincoln, she battles a world eager to define her and a ...

All 24,000 properties in Kent and East Sussex affected by a water outage should now have had their supplies restored, South East Water (SEW) has said. The water company said the supply to homes in the ...

The latest water crisis in Kent has prompted Tunbridge Wells MP Mike Martin to demand that South East Water (SEW) chief executive resign, adding: "The latest incident is in a long line of problems for ...

South Africa’s initial claim to be humanity’s home goes back almost a hundred years. In 1924, anatomist Raymond Dart found a skull of a juvenile primate among a box of fossil-bearing rocks sent to him ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Flooding across much of south-east Asia fuelled by a rare cluster of three tropical storms has claimed the ...

China massing navy, coast guards ships, sources tell Reuters End of year is China's traditional drills season China in midst of diplomatic crisis with Japan over Taiwan China also angered by Taiwan's ...

With a Master's degree in English Literature and six years of writing experience, Aayush has been contributing to TopSpeed for over two years. Since 95% of his personality is motorcycles, he goes ...

This neo-Gothic cathedral may catch your eye with its enormous spires and you'll hear it referred to by many (similar) names, including Catedral da Sé, Catedral Metropolitana and Catedral da Sé de São ...

Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three decades of experience as a business executive. He is a professor of economics and has raised more than $4.5 billion in ...

In all, V&A East Storehouse contains some half a million works spanning fashion to theatre, streetwear to sculpture, design icons to pop pioneers — and you're invited to explore the lot. "I'm going to ...