The last time Phoebe Waller-Bridge appeared on stage, in Jack Thorne’s Mydidae, she was naked in a bathroom and going through her ablutions. In her hot new solo show for Edinburgh, she’s no less startling or revealing but she does keep her clothes on.

Monks refusing to obey an eviction order hurled Molotov cocktails at bailiffs who were trying to bulldoze their way into a monastic sanctuary in Mount Athos, northern Greece on Monday morning.

Irish-American history lays its hand upon the present in a novel of journeys and returns

Fazenda Nova, Portugal

The rare sighting could mark a return for the mammal which is popular across the rest of Europe

The shortlist for the Stirling Prize is admirable, says Jay Merrick – it’s just a shame that designers of excellent but ordinary buildings are ignored

Woman was identified after investigation team released a facial reconstruction image

Chinese firm buys Lloyd’s building

World View: South Africa has certainly changed since the ANC came to power, but the party's failure to tackle economic inequality is glaringly evident

Kensington Palace refurbishment is part of £33.3m spent on the Royal Family last year

The government’s much-vaunted green deal has been branded a failure by critics after it emerged that fewer than ten UK households have taken out the loans offered by the scheme to improve their energy efficiency.

A rare 75-year-old comic book featuring the debut of Superman found in a Minnesota home's wall fetched $175,000 at auction, comic book seller Comicconnect.com said on Wednesday.

The five-storey cast-iron house with 60 windows in New York's SoHo, which Donald Judd purchased in 1968 for $68,000, will throw open its doors to the public this month.

'A regrettable tragedy that could have been avoided,' he later said of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre