Rowley Leigh from LIFE & ARTS May 17, 2013

Risotto primavera

Risotto primavera ©Andy Sewell

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

Katy Perry in Prada’s kitschy cat’s-eye glasses from the SS/13 collection, complete with colourful animal-print acetate frames From LIFE & ARTS May 17, 2013

Feast your eyes

Women’s sunglasses: what the stars are wearing

Barack Obama ©Getty From LIFE & ARTS May 17, 2013

Shades of great

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

People in Bangladesh and Myanmar were ordered to evacuate on Wednesday as a cyclone bore down on coastal areas The flood-prone areas are home to refugee camps for victims of sectarian unrest ©AP 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

A detail of the Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C., U.S ©Bloomberg 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?

art deco villa Tanah Merah ©Laurent Meesemaecker From LIFE & ARTS May 10, 2013

Fitzgerald’s Riviera revisited

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

Rowley Leigh's strawberry cake ©Andy Sewell From LIFE & ARTS May 10, 2013

Strawberry cake

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

Jason Horvath and Bill Hilgendorf From LIFE & ARTS May 10, 2013

Built in Brooklyn

The New York borough is part of a new design festival

Detail shot of Page's "blue suede" Vero Cuoio shoes from Bergdorf's (actually blue velvet). He comments that it's important not to take yourself too seriously ©Sophie Elgort 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

The enlarged skull of a child suffering from hydrocephalus or 'water on the brain' ©Joakim Blockstrom 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

May 6, 2013

Brit School

From WORLD May 5, 2013

Malaysian elections

General election believed to be closest fought race since independence in 1957

Ingram Pinn from COMMENT May 3, 2013

Visual comment of the week

Ingram Pinn’s take on one of the main events of the week

From LIFE & ARTS May 3, 2013

Duck and sweetbread stew with morels

‘The meat was manly but refined and served in a light, clear jus full of the flavour of duck’ - Rowley Leigh

From LIFE & ARTS May 3, 2013

Flight-seeing in Alaska

In the wilds of America’s largest national park, the best way to get around is by plane

May 3, 2013

Up, up and away – on board a pilotless drone

The UK’s first ever civilian flight of an unmanned drone takes off

From LIFE & ARTS May 3, 2013

All-time high

Archive pictures: Remembering the Everest expedition

From LIFE & ARTS May 3, 2013

Everton: how the blues made good

Year after year, Everton outperform much richer and starrier football clubs

May 1, 2013

May Day rallies

Protesters, workers and political supporters take part in marches around the world

Apr 30, 2013

Dutch Queen Beatrix’s abdication ceremony

Amsterdam celebrates the start of the reign of King Willem-Alexander, the first king of the Netherlands in over 120 years