The artistic director of Moscow’s state-owned Bolshoi Ballet has vowed that his company will eventually perform in the West again.

Amid the rhythmic clatter of traditional wooden looms, artisans at a workshop in rural Burkina Faso spin indigo-dyed cotton into sprawling lengths of cloth.

On a recent vacation in Tokyo, Takumi Yamamoto opted for a special lunch of cricket curry and silkworm sashimi, washed down with a water bug cider.

Irish singer Sinead O’Connor, known for topping the charts around the world with the 1990 song “Nothing Compares 2 U”, has died at the age of 56, Irish national broadcaster RTE quoted her family as saying on Wednesday.

A self-portrait by Johnny Depp went on sale.

Archaeologists working on a 2,000-year-old Roman cemetery discovered in Gaza last year have found at least 125 tombs.

With arms outstretched like bird’s wings in the traditional “swallow style”, Evald Krnic plunged.

Fans who play Pokemon late into the night have a new incentive to get to bed in the form of a sleep app that rewards them with the franchise’s signature monsters.

Venice presented a powerful line-up for its forthcoming film festival.

It’s a sign of our ever-hotter times that the quiet contemplation of nature typical of centuries of verse has given way to activism in the emerging genre of ecopoetry that takes centre stage at a London festival this weekend.

Every Sunday, worshippers at Bethesda Home Church in Lagos sing and dance to popular hymns.

Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet, grounded by COVID-19 and then shunned in the West since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.