Calment’s extraordinary longevity proves the trick to long life is a relaxed attitude towards the rules

Plus pondering the Universe in York

Over the last 200 years Britain and the US have gone to war—directly or indirectly—many times

Plus the CBSO play Dvorak's New World Symphony

New memoir Room to Dream, co-authored with Kristine McKenna, suggest just being David Lynch is an art in and of itself

The Ancient philosopher has much to teach us today

Andrew Adonis and Will Hutton dig out the deeper causes of discontent

As a wartime general and peacetime president Charles de Gaulle fought for a France made in his own grand self-image

The Nobel Prize-winning British author invented post-colonial literature

From "pizzagate" to 9/11, conspiracy theories are everywhere—and research shows they could be linked to things like stress or isolation