There’s growing evidence that animals have a sense of humour. Should this change how we see them?

All over Britain, shopping centres are closing down. Can these retail paradises be replaced by new public spaces?

Kerem Oktem is a Research Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford. His book Angry Nation: Turkey since 1989 will be published by Zed Books in 2009.

Dagmar Herzog is Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her latest book, Sex in Crisis, has caused a furore in America, where she has been accused of ...

Noor Zora, centre, and the troupe. Photo courtesy of Noor Zora In the heart of Punjab, a region of India steeped in folk traditions, Noor Zora – a gender-fluid 61-year-old – is breathing new life into ...