Lizzy Davies

While Pope Francis’s epistle takes aim at Church elitism and economic failings, it is vague on women’s role.

A judge has accepted a request to run DNA tests on a weapon alleged to have been used to kill British exchange student Meredith Kercher.

Junior Minister for Culture Ilaria Borletti Buitoni has chastised Italian chefs for trying too hard to be fashionable and copying the French.

Ban Ki-moon showed off his dance skills when he was visited at the United Nations by Psy, the rapper behind Gangnam Style.

A rhino curator consulted by Essex police over the sighting of a big cat near Clacton says images taken by holidaymakers were inconclusive.

The Archbishop of Canterbury says frustration at disagreements over women bishops in the Church of England could result in a "depressed church".

The head of Medecins Sans Frontires in Greece has accused the Athens authorities of pursuing an incorrect and dangerous public-health strategy.

The head of the charity behind a film about LRA leader Joseph Kony has released a new video hitting back at criticism over its strategy and spending.

Doctors say there’s "something special" about a case where a man survived spending two months snowed in his car with sub-zero temperatures outside.

Economy could be paralysed as supplies dry up and trucks come to a halt.

The UN has accused Rwanda of wholesale war crimes, including possibly genocide, during years of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

France’s crackdown on its foreign Roma population, and their forced repatriation, has come under fire.

Most reality television shows keep their aspirations modest: good ratings, plenty of gossip and at least one participant who makes his or her way on t

A weak and fragmented Europe is slowly but surely becoming a second-division world power.

Philippe Starck, the prolific Parisian designer, wants you to think many things about his first foray into ready-to-wear clothing.