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Mermaids are multicultural mythical figures, reflecting the continuing human fascination with the sea in stories echoing thousands of years into the past. Mermaids are found in cultures across the globe.

Three years since the historic A-Listed building was vacated by Scottish Widows, councillors are set to make a decision on plans to demolish part of the site and build 174 apartments next to Holyrood Park

A Scottish manor once owned by both a mysterious occultist who practiced 'sex magic' and a member of Led Zeppelin is opening this month to the public for self-guided tours.

When a society experiences oppression and trauma, literature helps its people by giving them a voice and reinforcing their identity. It gives the trauma those people have suffered a universal resonance. So it is for Palestinians, whose literature – particularly that of resistance – plays this role. Indeed, Palestinian writers…

A new documentary and adaptation of 1970 classic Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret proves how radical and timeless the work of the 85-year-old writer really is.

Here are three people whose record on COVID-19 shouldn't be forgotten.

The Met Gala allows us to gawk at the latest fashions, but functional design has provided us with astonishing curios for millennia

The 10 second clip appeared at the end of a video marking 30 years of Mortal Kombat.

From souvenir shops to art galleries, First Nations designs are big business. Australia’s Productivity Commission estimates about $250 million of Indigenous-style art and consumer products are sold annually. But just 16% of that ends up in the hands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists.

A speech in a play by Shakespeare or one of his contemporaries can be as short as a word or as long as several hundred, or anything in between. But what is the most common length?

The time and money spent on college can often be used more productively.