Healthcare organisations have called on the BBC to reverse its “stigmatising” decision to not provide information about abortion. After an episode of Call the Midwife, in which a character died as a result of complications from an illegal abortion,...
Main image: Gym’ll fix it … Olivia Newton-John and friends get Physical. Photograph: Sipa/Rex/Shutterstock 20. Heaven 17 (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang (1981) A nervy BBC banned the Human League splinter group’s funky debut single for pot...
The Dutch artist David Louf, who goes by Mr June, is the person behind these striking 3D hexagon murals, which have appeared on walls from Berlin to the Bronx. Louf grew up in Amsterdam immersed in hip-hop and graffiti, and turned to graphic design...
It is rush hour on Monday morning in Hyderabad, but the city’s usual deafening soundtrack of revving engines and blaring horns is absent. The only noise comes from a woman gently sweeping the veranda of one of the large, pastel-coloured mansions nea...
Paschal Merumba has suffered prejudice from the day he was born. His mother refused to breastfeed her “cursed” baby, the second child in the family born with albinism; the first had already died of neglect. Merumba was thought to have contaminated t...
The face is a greenish sock of sickly flesh stretched tight over the skull. Its features have been burned away by pain. All that remain in the elongated mask are two wide round eyes with dots for pupils, a pair of black nostrils and a mouth open in...
Jim Bachor makes street art – quite literally. For the last few years the 52-year-old has been making art out of the blight on our roads. Inspired to make mosiacs after a trip to Italy in the late 90s, Bachor has become “the pothole guy”, decorating...
LA is a city of concrete. From Frank Lloyd Wright’s modernist mansions to Rudolph Schindler’s tilted houses, architects working there have embraced the material. A new map by Blue Crow Media shows some lesser-known structures are just as striking...
On a neon-lit jetty overlooking the River Nile, a young Tanzanian DJ called Sisso is playing a bracing barrage of blips, bells and breakneck beats that could blast apart a heart-rate monitor. We are at Nyege Nyege, a pan-African festival in Uganda t...
The Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush has denied acting inappropriately towards Orange is the New Black star Yael Stone during a 2010 theatre production. On Monday the New York Times published an interview in which Stone alleged Rush engaged in inap...
A handwritten missive by Albert Einstein known as the “God letter” is expected to fetch up to $1.5m (£1.2m) when it goes under the hammer. The one-and-a-half-page letter, written in 1954 in German and addressed to the philosopher Eric Gutkind, conta...
Geoff Murphy, the film-maker who was a key pioneer in the development of the modern New Zealand film industry, has died aged 80, the New Zealand film commission has confirmed. With hits such as Goodbye Pork Pie and The Quiet Earth, Murphy stood alon...
‘Casse-toi, pauv’ con!’ was a phrase that went viral after being uttered by the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy in 2008, to a man who refused to shake his hand. An exact translation is difficult, but the sense is something along the lines o...
Nicolas Roeg, one of Britain’s most admired and influential film-makers, has died aged 90, his family has announced. Roeg is best known for a run of acclaimed movies in the 1970s and early 80s, including horror Don’t Look Now, Australian outback dra...
Be prepared. The great museums of Europe are about to see an invasion of former colonies demanding the return of their stuff. This week the governor of Easter Island, Tarita Alarcón Rapu, tearfully pleaded with the British Museum to have back her an...