A Swiss lab has developed a way of establishing how someone died without damaging the evidence.

Telegraph weekly world edition letters, issue 956

Telegraph weekly world edition letters, issue 957

Expat's Chelsea Girl in China, Josephine McDermott, on a theatrical event that is sure to challenge the prevailing culture in Shanghai/

Wordsworth House, the Cumbria birthplace of Romantic poet William Wordsworth, escaped destruction by inches when floods swept the Lake District.

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A Zambian magistrate has thrown out pornography charges brought against a news editor who mailed pictures of a woman giving birth on a pavement during a doctor's strike to the vice-president.