I'm in the Ardèche for a holiday with family and assorted friends. I haven't worn shoes for 10 days and am growing a beard that is turning out to be unnervingly grey. All is good … well almost all.

The authoritarian leader of Kazakhstan visited David Cameron in Downing Street while he was on a private trip to London with his family this week, it has emerged.

Traces of canvas, paint and nails found in oven of suspect in multi-million pound art heist

A museum in northern China has been closed down by local authorities after many of its artefacts were revealed to be fakes.

The list below provides more information about a selection of the Hidden Treasures events from across the country.

Information is encoded with lasers, has a thermal stability of up to 1000°C and a practically unlimited shelf life

Rescue workers have been called to the scene in a bid to find survivors

75 years on, National Railway Museum gathers five surviving sister locomotives

Art is set to collide with new-age therapies when the Mexican artist Pedro Reyes brings Sanatorium to the Whitechapel Gallery next week. His installation, ranging across five “treatment rooms”, will function as a clinic that offers a series of “self-discovery” sessions. Visitors temporarily become “patients” when they sign up for an activity, which will be administered by 30 quasi-instructors trained by Reyes.

Pontefract aims to celebrate its most famous export, and lure liquorice-loving tourists to come and part with their pennies

Music veteran David Bowie is to be seen in venues across the UK - with a live screening from the hit exhibition at the V&A Museum which celebrates the chart star's career.

VIDEO: The statue, of a man called Neb-Sanu, turns during the day

The man who pays his way

The official slogan of the Egyptian Tourist Board is "Egypt: where it all begins". Instead, they should lift one which the Australians ditched a few years back: "Where the bloody hell are you?"