Culture & Society

The house that Tateh built ... out of sand-filled plastic bottles Pablo Mediavilla Costa in Tindouf, Algeria   In the Sahrawi refugee camps in the Algerian desert, Tateh Lehbib Braica – aka ‘the crazy bottle guy’ –...

  Oscars 2018: The complete list of nominees By Michael Rothman and EMILY SHAPIRO https://youtu.be/mJBH1q8rnjw The big day is here! The 2018 Oscar nominations are in and "The Shape of Water" led the way with a whopping 13 nods,...

Oscar nominations 2018: a cautious, comfort-food list in Trumpian times Peter Bradshaw   The Shape of Water leads a nominations list that offers up exotic fantasy and imagined past, but is missing something truly ferocious and polarising. The...

Cuzco comes alive with ancient Incas festival A source of Andean pride, the Inti Raymi festival festival had to be held in secret, but since 1944 has been revived and growing in popularity. At the highest...

Che Guevara's legacy still contentious 50 years after his death in Bolivia by Laurence Blair in La Higuera and Dan Collyns in Santa Cruz   The remote village where the Argentina-born revolutionary was executed is now a...

Europe’s abandoned mansions will take your breath away Author: Harriet King   Increasing numbers of Europeans are fleeing the country life to earn a living in towns and cities, leaving opulent properties empty to decay. With time...

Centuries-old craftsmanship finds new life in Kabul's oldest district   An aid project is reviving traditional Afghan arts and helping past masters preserve and pass on their skills to the new generation. Ceramics, carpentry, calligraphy and gem...

Three Identical Strangers: the bizarre tale of triplets separated at birth   The director of one of the year’s most shocking documentaries talks about his extraordinary subjects, the film-making process, and the age-old question: nature or...

Assyrians return to Turkey from Europe to save their culture   Assyrians are one of the oldest communities in the Middle East, where they have lived for millennia. In the last hundred years, successive wars have...

Director Roman Polanski accused of sexual assault again   A third woman, identified only as Robin, has come forward to say Roman Polanski sexually assaulted her in 1970's. A third woman came forward Tuesday to accuse Roman...