Nicole Johnston

In the Chinese city of Changsha in Hunan province, a giant stone head of the country's founding father, Mao Zedong, as a young man, looms larger than life.

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy is heading to China on Friday for his first official visit since Labour won the general election.

The previous British government called China an "epoch defining" challenge, and Labour now face the task of working out its own relationship with the global power.

Nicole Johnston reports on China's control of critical minerals we need for smartphones, electric vehicles and more.

The Liberal Democratic Party - led by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba - has been punished after anger at the state of the economy and the ruling party's handling of a corruption scandal.

Social media footage showed police appearing to bundle away people dressed in Halloween costumes last weekend.

This study investigated the potential of inclusively designed adaptive apparel discovered within a historic costume and textile collection to inspire contemporary inclusive and adaptive apparel design in a product development course. This study employed object-based learning as the theoretical framework, focusing on the tangible examination and analysis of historical garments as educational tools. A descriptive analysis qualitative methodology was used to identify the key inclusive adaptive apparel design features that could potentially inform inclusively designed adaptive apparel in the present day. By examining a diverse range of historical garments, this study aimed to uncover design elements that transcend time and cultural contexts, providing valuable insights for contemporary product development students seeking to create inclusively designed adaptive apparel collections. The findings from this study suggest that historic costume and textile collections are a compatible and significant source for integrating inclusive design features into the apparel design classroom.

Outgoing US President Joe Biden is set to meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping today for what is likely to be his last time as US president.

One of the main faces of Hong Kong's pro-Democracy scene, British citizen and media tycoon Jimmy Lai, has started testifying in court.

It has taken South Koreans 12 nights of protests in the bitter cold to achieve their goal, for President Yoon Suk Yeol's political career to take one step closer to the end.