Lucy Ash

In Poland, dozens of small towns have declared themselves free of "LGBT ideology". Politicians' hostility to …

Reading may be a solitary activity, but getting together to discuss a book is a booming phenomenon.

In the dead of winter, a group of students set out on a trek into the Ural Mountains. Their frozen bodies - w…

Two years ago, many Russians were shocked when the parliament significantly reduced penalties for domestic vi…

The government-backed Unlocked Graduates scheme trains university leavers to work as prison officers. But how…

The collapse of two apartment buildings in Marseille last November left the city in mourning for eight people…

An article on what makes people give up their time to help others from children on the frontline in East Ukra…

This Christmas it's likely that more people than ever before will spit into a tube, or swab some cheek cells …

Lord Ironside opens the leather-bound album resting on his lap to show me his favourite photograph. "Look at …

There have been brothels in Nevada since the days of the Gold Rush, but in one of the state's 16 counties tha…

Seaweed has been hailed as a new superfood, and it's also found in toothpaste, medicine and shampoo. In Zanzi…

Under Putin, businessmen are left alone as long as they steer clear of politics. For many who have upset the …

Russia's leading environmental activist is one of more than a million people - many of them young and well-ed…

When British soldiers were sent to Russia after the Russian Revolution their main enemies were the Germans - …

The family of Algerian journalist Said Chitour has been desperately trying to secure his release since he was…

Fearing for her safety, Russian 800m runner Yuliya Stepanova fled her country after she revealed the dirty se…

While the UK and much of the world struggles with overcrowded prisons, the Netherlands has the opposite probl…

Simon Morrison's intoxicating history of the Bolshoi Ballet suggests that the recent acid attack on its artis…

Under pressure to tackle home-grown jihadism, the French government is opening a string of rehabilitation cen…

A Colombian woman who denounced armed groups for sexually abusing women and girls was abducted by the militan…

Three women have become the scourge of Macedonia's political elite and heroines of the street protests now ro…

They caused heartache for millions but now some of China's hated population police - who for years enforced C…

The tradition of transhumance - the seasonal movement of sheep - is still practised in Romania. But shepherds…