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Buildings adorned with plants are an increasingly familiar sight in cities worldwide. These “green walls” are generally created using metal frames that support plastic plates, onto which pre-grown plants are inserted. These plants are able to survive without soil because they’re sustained by nutrient-packed rolls of felt and artificial sprinklers.

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, turns 90 this week – a milestone that’s reigniting speculation over his eventual successor.

Kitchen disasters, war shortages and coincidences are apparently to thank for some of our favourite food and drinks we have today.

Today, we are pleased to share with you the best images chosen by the community of Wikimedia Commons.

How often do we stop to pay attention to changing surroundings?

It all starts when a group of old friends in Buenos Aires meet for a round of the card game truco on a hot summer night. Suddenly – a power outage. As darkness engulfs the city, a mysterious poisonous snow falls from the sky.

The comedian said her dad told her the different story following a performance of The Bedwetter

There is a world beyond our own, where imagination and reality meet, and where, for 80 years, Tove Jansson’s Moomins illustrations have offered readers a way to recognise themselves.

Do you know how the famous painter Vincent Van Gogh looked when he was young?

In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China’s sun-scorched plains: “Heaven has gone blind!” Thousands of starving farmers, their faces smeared with ox blood, marched toward the opulent vaults held by the Han dynasty’s elite rulers.