The fifth edition of the psychiatrists’ bible, DSM V, reignites the row over the massive growth in mental disorders

Valtr Komarek, who died yesterday at the age of 82, was a left-wing Czech politician and economist who helped overthrow the country's communist regime. He briefly served as deputy premier of the first post-communist government.

An artwork found in the lost Parisian apartment has sold for almost £1.8 million

Shaun Walker meets the Communist party faithful as the Soviet leader goes back on display

One of Japan’s leading politicians has poisoned already toxic relations with China and South Korea by saying that wartime sex slaves were a necessary evil.

Education Secretary’s attack on lack of pupils’ knowledge not based on any academic research

A journal written by WH Auden that for decades was believed lost has been unearthed, shedding new light on a critical year in the life of one of the giants of 20th century poetry.

Honeysuckle Weeks is best known as jolly-hockey-sticks Samantha in Foyle's War. She tells Charlotte Cripps why her role in a hard-hitting play about women's rights in Twenties Chicago makes a welcome change

Pilot formed ‘historic link’ to Commonwealth volunteers, often seen as airbrushed from history

Yves Kugelmann says 'it's a matter of fact' that a Dutch institution is again trying to seize the family's possessions

Low cost carrier Easyjet plans to disperse ash from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano, which caused travel chaos in 2010, later this year and carry out tests using an aircraft warning system designed to detect ash clouds

David Cameron is facing a new Conservative rebellion over Europe as his MPs challenge his authority by renewing their demands for a referendum.

The huge German airship exploded above a New Jersey airfield on May 6 1937 – with newsreel footage of its burning wreckage forming one of the 20th Century’s most iconic images