Esther Addley

Where once a privy out the back sufficed, now the children need their own loos too

Twenty-three years ago this summer, on a bright early June morning in south-west London, a staff member on her way to work at the Richmond branch

In 2001, a badly broken body was found in a London car park. Police said the man had tried to enter the UK by hiding in a plane’s landing gear. Two decades after the Guardian first told his tragic story, there was an unexpected twist

Move follows London museum’s links to Adani Group, which has partnership with Israeli arms manufacturer

Four galleries to be overhauled and two more spaces to reopen, including with Fixing Our Broken Planet exhibition

As Kamala Harris, newly installed as a presidential candidate, sought to change the weather on the Democrats' faltering campaign in late July, she

The vice-president’s many and varied expressions said as much as her words in rebutting her Republican rival

Almost 500 years ago, a wealthy and well-connected judge named Sir James Hales walked into the river Stour near Canterbury in order to take his own life.

It happened sometime on Monday morning, locals think, though no one seems to know exactly when.

Many remain positive about their high-profile politician but others complain that he ‘got his seat and disappeared’