Representatives of repressive regimes from around the world are flying to Washington for the inaugural meeting of the body ...

Check out the best images from day 12 of the Games, from alpine skiing to a four-legged “com-pet-itor” ...

This patchwork tribute to a cultural phenomenon that sent Cillian Murphy’s undercut hairstyle global is a rather unambitious affair ...

A trail named after a brutal marcher lord passes through tranquil countryside between Shropshire and Herfordshire but is rich in reminders of the area’s turbulent past ...

The follow-up to Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line explores the history of colonial exploration through a perilous 19th-century odyssey ...

Once a PM is seen as hapless, there is no way back. But Labour has good plans – and with the political landscape fragmented, it could yet prevail, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott ...

New research shows that curbing work visas won’t help with British recruitment​, and could accelerate the collapse of ​essential service sectors already struggling to survive ...

From mid-January until the end of carnival, mamuthones and issohadores take to the streets of Mamoiada, in the mountainous heartland of Sardinia. This is a time when herders and farmers across the Med ...

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How the Guardian first covered the national crisis that unfolded as a result of the virus that spreads like wildfire ...

Unresolved ‘sensitive’ issues in peace talks are fate of occupied territories in east Ukraine and Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant ...

Scientists and philosophers studying the mind have discovered how little we know about our inner experiences ...