Winter palace
On Friday, the Hotel Ai Reali opens close to the Rialto Bridge and St Mark's Square in Venice. The palatial property is resplendent with crystal chandeliers, frescoed ceilings, canopied beds, marble staircases and richly patterned wallpapers (hotelaireali.com).
Beards, brawn and body art
Meet London’s new batch of male models
Scandi-geeks descend on Nordicana for fan-convention
British love of shows such as The Bridge, Borgen and The Killing shows no sign of fading
The Great Green Wall of Africa,
Behind the rhetoric what is really being done to combat desertification?
Laughter Inc
The cheering growth of the chuckle industry
The bad science scandal
How fact-fabrication is damaging UK's global name for research
Female aristocrats battle to inherit the title
A passionate protest is gathering pace among the women of Britain's aristocracy, who believe that men should no longer automatically inherit the family pile and title.
In pictures: JFK's visit to Berlin in 1963
Photographer Ulrich Mack accompanied Kennedy on the entire trip. The results are an astonishing record of a watershed moment.
Mark Hix gets creative with English peas
English peas and their offsprings, such as mangetouts and sugar snaps, are great tossed into a salad, says our chef.
Chef Martin Morales: Ceviche with a smile
Morales has turned South America's elegant cuisine into one of London's hottest food trends
Incredible edible: Guerrilla gardeners
Holly Williams joins the volunteers who have turned a small town into a thriving community with a guerrilla gardening scheme that has provided a blueprint for sustainability.
Seasoned to taste: Food institutions
In an industry famed for short-lived success and pop-up pretenders, it takes something special to stick around.
Anatomy of a waiter: Staff spill their secrets
Next Sunday is the first ever National Waiters' Day. To celebrate, we share tales from the restaurant trenches by those in the front line.
Drink in the sun: The season's best wines
From complex English sparkling wine to juicy Sicilian reds...
Robert Fisk
Farewell Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, we’ll miss you – but not that much...
After 163 years India sends its final telegram -(Stop)-
Mobile phones and the internet have superseded the once-essential service
