Vera Stephanie Buchthal was born in Dortmund, Germany, in September 1933, months after Adolf Hitler had come to power. Her father was a judge but, as a Jew, his career was now over. Her mother, from a ...

A hundred years after his birth, have successors such as Robin Williams, Steve Coogan or Sacha Baron Cohen come close to ...

Donald Trump picks winners and losers in corporate America now. This opens up thrilling new opportunities for anyone who ...

It is better to be fashionably late than horribly early. Just ask the tech bros. Google and Snap both scrapped early efforts ...

A primetime TV talent show each summer selects the nation’s most idyllic village. But in Saint-Antoine-l’Abbaye, not everyone is happy ...

The ‘12 Years a Slave’ star discusses his new film ‘The Life of Chuck’, why theatre changed him and how the camera gets ‘behind the eyes’ ...

The sculptor of the CIA’s ‘Kryptos’ has spent decades guarding its last secret code. What happens when he’s gone?

This is far from just a British phenomenon. One US survey found that most people now consider friendship itself to be “expensive”. Six per cent of Australians say they have “broken up” with an ...

I’ve joined him, and his wife and videographer, Savannah, in Wigan on an overcast Wednesday in May. They’ve been here once before, on a trip that resulted in a cheeky video, asking: “Where is the nice ...

Since then, his recordings have struck off in various directions, first Chopin’s Études, then Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Now we have something of a byway, Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons, due for release ...

Few now discount the prospect of unification. Yet the Republic still struggles to imagine the changes that would be needed to accommodate unionists ...

One of the president’s most recent executive orders paved the way for American retirement accounts to invest in cryptocurrencies and private equity. It’s a seismic change for savers and investors both ...