Our quote of the day is from American politician and showman P. T. Barnum
Our quote of the day is from former American president Ulysses S Grant
Martin Sonka of the Czech Republic (dark blue plane) leads Nigel Lamb of Great Britain (yellow) and Yoshihide Muroya of Japan (silver) past Mount Fuji prior to the third stage of the Red Bull Air...
A veterinarian holds the head of a sedated tiger at the Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua temple in Kanchanaburi province, Thailand on June 1st 2016. Wildlife authorities raided the Buddhist temple where 137 ...
A Heliconius erato demophoon butterfly feeds on a flower in this photo released on June 1st 2016. A gene responsible for the colours and colour patterns on the wings of butterflies and moths h...
The 2016 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest: Bride due to be married on the only day of snow in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. The contest ends on May 27th and the grand prize i...
Krit, a 12-year-old student with disabilities, leads a female elephant at the Thai Elephant Research and Conservation Fund in Pak Chong district, Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand on May 25th ...
THE DEB WHO SANK THE BISMARCK A DRAUGHTY wooden hut, in the company of the best brains of Britain, was not quite the billet Jane Fawcett had imagined for herself. At Miss Ironside’s School fo...
Fog covers the top of the Eiffel Tower on June 2nd 2016. President Hollande has declared a state of natural disaster in the worst hit districts of France, after six weeks’ worth of rain fell in...
HILLARY’S SECRET WEAPON: the political calculator. This week’s KAL cartoon, June 4th, 2016
This week our cover reports on the attack on free speech. More governments are turning repressive, jihadists and criminals are using violence, and pretty much everyone has come to believe that t...
All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins 2016’ by Yayoi Kusama. A major exhibition by the Japanese artist and writer has opened at Victoria Miro Gallery in London, featuring new paintings, ...
Our quote of the day is from Martha Washington
Cacti are displayed at the Chelsea Flower Show in London, Britain on May 24th 2016. Credit: Reuters/Stefan Wermuth
Our quote of the day is from the English poet John Masefield
Barack Obama turns to listen to a question from the audience during the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on May 25th 2016. Credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster
Our quote of the day is from the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn
The Mississippi River at sunset as seen from the Solar Impulse 2 during its flight from Tulsa, Oklahoma to Dayton, Ohio on May 21st 2016. Credit: Reuters/Andre Borschberg
ANOTHER GERMAN What made Germany go mad? Having fled the Nazis as a boy, Fritz Stern spent the rest of his life trying to understand and explain the murderous frenzy which beset his homeland. ...
Monster Mash: A South Korean policeman takes part in an anti-terror and security drill at a shopping mall in Seoul, South Korea on May 20th 2016. Credit: Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji