Someone who works for a fashion school in New York recently told her that “all the students are totally obsessed with Isabel Marant”. Why? Because she doesn’t dye her hair or wear much make-up and ...

With the global cocaine business booming as never before, organised crime groups are diversifying into a swath of other illicit activities ...

BHP has demanded to know who is in charge of a £36bn lawsuit against it after the chief executive of the law firm bringing the case was pushed out by the US hedge fund backing the claim.

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The book’s elegant premise is that the Rhine, the Rhône and the Po gave rise to the three great national cultures — and in doing so helped unify Europe ...

The 18th-century painter hobnobbed with London’s poshest — but his private ink drawings reveal a world of emotional extremes ...

Nor will it elicit the type of global co-operation necessary to address persistent economic challenges such as macroeconomic imbalances and unfair subsidies. What’s striking in Greer’s intellectual ...

Economic adviser Wandile Sihlobo discusses the impact of cuts to aid and the difficulties in increasing crop production ...

Despite the sweeping cuts to financial assistance there has been surprisingly little protest from the continent’s nations ...

The off-kilter colour has turned out to be a popular tone with other luxury designers too this season. Albane Desazars de Montgailhard, fashion insight analyst at the fashion search engine Tagwalk, ...

The UK’s regulation of mobile app stores is lagging “well behind” other countries, according to the head of Fortnite creator Epic Games, as courts and antitrust agencies around the world crack down on ...

Malawi has handed out adaptive teaching tablets to children across the country to teach basic literacy and numeracy ...