Was Florentine friars’ fatigue-fighting elixir a precursor to Coca-Cola?

Opera Holland Park, London Liam Steel relocates Johann Strauss’s operetta to London 1929 to create the feel of a Noël Coward-style farce. Rebecca Bottone, Ol...

Joshua Kushner is now the kingpin in driving the sale of the World Cup to investors and family ties are tight around the projectIt isn’t just football fans a...

Ugandan boxer criticised referee after disqualificationChief executive Sadleir defends TNT Sports coverageCommonwealth Sport chiefs have dismissed Idi Amin’s...

Gianni Infantino’s plan for a Fifa subsidiary is odious – but it’s hard to feel surprisedJust when you thought global soccer couldn’t get more odiously capit...

Americans are dying younger than Europeans, despite being the wealthiest people on the planet. Wellness fads won’t change thatI’m just back from my home coun...

To coincide with a new exhibition in London about the Davies brothers, we rate the best of a band who brought a sociologist’s eye to hard rock, gentle pastor...

Thousands of students are graduating into an employment crisis, leaving them feeling hopeless and overqualified, as well as dealing with enormous debts from...

Spoilt food smelling like ‘dead body’ plagues residents after weeklong fire, yet company asks permission to rebuildOne month after a huge fire ravaged a Los...

Consumer spending remained resilient even as policymakers kept interest rates on holdThe US economy expanded at a sluggish 1.5% pace from April through June...

Democrat Kaohly Her, Minnesota’s city’s first female mayor, allegedly sent inappropriate messages to employeesThe first female mayor of St Paul, Kaohly Her,...

Officials raided homes and businesses and seized laptops, phones and paperwork in clampdown on nuisance firmsLaptops, mobile phones and documents have been s...

Ferocious flames continue to rage in parts of France and Spain, with no sign of abating. We chart the destruction in graphics and picturesThe hellish inferno...