Articles by Alex Wheeler
The Orchid Festival runs from the 4 February-5 March 2017 at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Corporate buildings, including banks and ATMs were vandalised, and a Starbucks coffee shop was looted.
Demonstrators held placards reading '89' referring the 1989 Romanian Revolution that toppled late dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
From Tara Palmer-Tomkinson and Hans Rosling to John Hurt and Joost van der Westhuizen, here are some of the famous faces who have died in 2017.
These are the worst forest fires the nation has seen in modern history.
Almost 1.5 million people have signed a petition calling for Trump's planned UK visit – which will involve lavish displays of royal pageantry – to be cancelled.
The Surva International Festival of the Masquerade sees roughly 6,000 people from every folklore region of the country attend.
President Donald Trump's Executive Order bars admission of Syrian refugees and restricts people from seven Muslim-majority nations from entering US.
A selection of photographs from around the world, covering a variety of topics from current events to animals, weather and travel.
Survivors gathered at the former Nazi death camp to commemorate its liberation by Soviet troops in 1945.
Often called Lunar New Year or Spring Festival, Chinese New Year 4715 will fall on 28 January.
Conservation works are planned to be carried out on a total of 45 brick prisoner barracks of the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau death camp.
Festivities took place all over the country with particularly spectacular sights observed in Jammu, Srinagar and Kolkata
Many believe Australia's national day celebrates the arrival of white settlement, marking the beginning of injustices suffered by the country's disadvantaged Aborigines.
A car bomb was rammed into the gate of the Dayah hotel in Mogadishu, leaving 28 dead and scores injured.
Over 1,000 sled dogs and 250 mushers are expected to attend the 34th Aviemore Sled Dog Rally.
For centuries, merchants have travelled across the vast, cracked desert basin with caravans of camels to collect blocks of salt.
Here are some of the best photos of Trump supporters across the globe in the days leading up to the inauguration ceremony.
A selection of photographs from around the world, covering a variety of topics from current events to animals, weather and travel.
In the past week, various cities have been preparing for Trump's inauguration, with many taking advantage of the political uncertainty it has caused
