From tried and tested old-fashioned designs to high-tech super dryers

Specialist sonar equipment is being used today to find the body of a four-year-old boy lost at sea.

She reportedly kept a plastic surgery diary, showing it to anyone who asked

Unlike many of the residents of London's Notting Hill, I stay put at carnival time. No escaping to sunnier or rural climes for me on the occasion of this, the biggest street party of the year.

This mammoth account of gay identity defers too much to the passing fads of pop culture

Mark Fast's designs have long been inspired by hosiery techniques, so a new collaboration with the tights titan Jonathan Aston is a perfect fit

For the last fortnight, the nation has been uncharacteristically enthusiastic and, well, nice. But the Olympic closing ceremony saw us getting back to our snarky selves...

Sand from the beach volleyball stadium outside Horseguards Parade will be used to build 36 new courts within the M25 over the coming months as part of an attempts to build a lasting legacy that will propel Britain towards the next Olympics in Rio.

A man had to be led from his flat after a fire started when he tried to dry his underpants and socks in the microwave.

The first in our semi-regular, and most certainly satirical, character assassinations of gaming's virtual icons.

Next will launch an own-language website in China this autumn, as the fashion retailer seeks to capitalise on booming online revenues.

Gad Beck's dangerous life as a half-Jewish gay man in the capital of Nazi Germany during the Second World War represents one of the 20th century's more unusual stories of human survival. With the passage of time, it has become known that not even Nazi ruthlessness and efficiency could eliminate all Jews and gays from Hitler's Germany. Some slipped through holes in the dragnet, and Beck became one of the last gay Jewish survivors of the Holocaust.

After the chaos, it all went remarkably smoothly. Many of the people who had tickets to the Opening Ceremony left their homes early in the expectation that the queues would be enormous, given the hoo-hah that surrounded the security preparations in the weeks running up to the Games. Yet few experienced any kind of backlog.

"The night's most enduring band – with Le Bon in Union Jack jacket – enter after a brief, bracing deluge"