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Muscovites sunbathing on the banks of the river Moscow in Gorky park ©Tass From LIFE & ARTS 7:22pm

Global Capability

The English gardener’s enduring influence in Russia and Rajasthan

Rowley Leigh's pigeons with peas ©Andy Sewell From LIFE & ARTS 6:50pm

Pigeons with peas

‘An atavistic dish and one as close to the heart of a Frenchman as apple pie to an American’

The Barbican Estate in the City of London ©Jo Chambers / Alamy From LIFE & ARTS 6:39pm

Brutalist architecture: a concept made concrete

The building style continues to divide opinion but it needs to be seen in context

©Charlie Bibby From LIFE & ARTS 6:39pm

Chelsea Flower Show

Martin Parr's photograph of a bather in Lake Garda, Italy ©Martin Parr/Magnum Photos From LIFE & ARTS 4:58pm

All the world’s a beach

Where better to observe human eccentricity in all its glory? A selection from photographer Martin Parr’s latest book and exhibition

From LIFE & ARTS 2:00pm

Slideshow: Washington: a tale of two cities

Richard McGregor on the momentous changes polarising Washington DC

Benjamin Bashein ©Sophie Elgort Suits and the City from LIFE & ARTS May 23, 2013

Art industry shows its strong suit

The art industry showed its strong suit at the ACRIA Unframed 2013 benefit Monday night in designs by Theory, A.P.C., Pablo and more

May 22, 2013

A fire burns in the Tower Plaza Addition in Moore, Oklahoma, following a tornado on Monday ©AP From WORLD May 21, 2013

Oklahoma tornado in pictures

Tornado rips through Oklahoma City suburbs, flattening entire neighbourhoods and setting buildings on fire

Rowley Leigh from LIFE & ARTS May 17, 2013

Risotto primavera

A riot of colour that encapsulates, as Botticelli’s painting of the same name does, the vibrancy of spring

From LIFE & ARTS May 17, 2013

Feast your eyes

Women’s sunglasses: what the stars are wearing

From LIFE & ARTS May 17, 2013

Shades of great

Men’s sunglasses: stars and their eyes, from Barack Obama to Bob Dylan

From WORLD May 16, 2013

Cyclone Mahasen preparations

Hundreds of thousands of people in Bangladesh and Myanmar were ordered to evacuate on Wednesday as a cyclone bore down on coastal areas home to flood-prone refugee camps for victims of sectarian unrest

From GLOBAL ECONOMY May 15, 2013

Candidates to be the next US Fed chairman

Who might replace Ben Bernanke when his terms ends in January 2014?

From LIFE & ARTS May 10, 2013

Fitzgerald’s Riviera revisited

The Gatsby effect continues to be felt in the coastline’s villas

From LIFE & ARTS May 10, 2013

Strawberry cake

‘My original recipe was rather complicated; so I resolved to produce this simpler version’ - Rowley Leigh

From LIFE & ARTS May 10, 2013

Built in Brooklyn

The New York borough is part of a new design festival

Suits and the City from LIFE & ARTS May 10, 2013

Blue – Not Just for Jeans

Blue suits, blue sunglasses, blue ties, blue dresses and blue shoes - this spring the streets of New York have seen it all

From LIFE & ARTS May 10, 2013

Hunterian Museum

From ribcages deformed by corsets to tools for drilling through the skull, the shelves of th 200-year-old London museum are packed with 60,000 remarkable (if grisly) specimens of surgical progress