The festival will return in June after taking a fallow year, but tickets have topped £400 for the first time.

The UK's special envoy to the Western Balkans has summoned a top Serbian diplomat to condemn the country's involvement in the funeral of Ratko Mladic.

The phone call comes after US special envoys travelled to Russia and Ukraine to discuss 'a proposal to end the war'.

Days before California voters receive their mail-in ballots, gubernatorial candidates Xavier Becerra, a Democrat, and Steve Hilton, a Republican, will debate in a nationally televised face-off.

Foreign secretary ends UK’s feigned helplessness with sanctions and description of Israel’s actions as ethnic cleansing The indefatigable ability of UK Foreign Office ministers over decades to issue boilerplate statements of concern about the extension of illegal settlements in Israel has long been a matter of ridicule. Even some of the Conservative ministers who issued them, notably Alan Duncan …

Rachel Chen, an 18-year-old Los Angeles student, won $100,000 at the Regeneron Science Talent Search for expanding a 1997 mathematical idea involving Temperley-Lieb diagrams. Her research offers a visual way to describe complex quantum particle systems and spin representations, potentially helping researchers better understand connections between different quantum-mechanical states.