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Notre-Dame is clearly a much-loved building but some modern architecture – with spikes to stop homeless people sleeping and other forms of hostile infrastructure – may struggle to attract similar feelings among the public, writes Laura Waddell.

A bizarre Frankenstein-style experiment has breathed life into the brains of pigs four hours after death.

The University of Aberdeen has revoked the Sultan of Brunei’s honorary degree in protest against the introduction of severe anti-LGBT laws.

The American actress and activist Rose McGowan, one of the leading figures in the global #MeToo movement, is to stage her own-woman show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.

The Extinction Rebellion climate campaign is fighting a worthy cause, but its protests risk leaving the public unstirred, writes Martyn McLaughlin.

Jameela Jamil is on my hot list just now. I can’t watch enough of her being interviewed, read enough of her quotes or listen enough to her talking about her passion on body positivity, writes Hayley Matthews.

A Bahraini court has sentenced 69 people to life in prison and revoked the citizenship of 138 defendants on terrorism-related charges in one of the largest mass trials ever held in the country.

The emotional response to the devastating fire at the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral demonstrates such iconic buildings really do mean a lot to us.

Firefighters are tackling a major blaze at the historic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

Emergency workers were last night battling to save the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral from being completely destroyed after a fire thought to have been caused by renovation work led the spire of the famous cathedral to collapse.

Firefighters have fully extinguished a catastrophic fire at Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral that left a nation mourning the devastation of its cultural and historic “epicentre”.

Amid climate change protests and school strikes in the UK, it is worth remembering that environmentalists in some parts of the world are regularly murdered, writes Dr Richard Dixon.

BOOKMAKERS William Hill have taken a massive hit after Tiger Woods’ first major championship victory in more than a decade.

A large, flightless bird killed its owner when it attacked him after he fell, authorities in Florida have said.

Men, women, boys and girls can all learn something from the highly successful film franchise, writes Jim Duffy.

At least one person was killed on the first day of polling in India’s general elections, which are seen as a referendum on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party.

The first image taken of a black hole in the M87 galaxy, 500 million trillion kilometres away, demonstrates the benefits of people from different countries working together.

Warner Bros has launched legal action against Donald Trump after he used music from The Dark Knight Rises in a tweet.