In private, his refuge was drawing. Hugo’s ink and wash visions of imaginary castles, monsters and seascapes are as poetic as his writing. His works inspired Romantic and Symbolist poets, and many ...

Birmingham’s bin-strike woes escalated this week when police were called to a mobile waste collection service that became swarmed by locals desperate to get rid of their rubbish. In Moseley, a ...

On Wednesday, the police were called because so many people turned up to get rid of their rubbish The situation is also drawing attention beyond Birmingham. The House of Commons heard from one ...

The Snipping Tool gains a Draw & Hold feature that allows you to create clean lines and shapes when marking up an image. Holding your cursor or pen for a moment after drawing a line or shape will ...

The tournament draw, released by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) on March 11, indicates that Shin Yu-bin will confront Egyptian player Hana Hussein Mohamed Goda, an 18-year-old ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

An indefinite all-out strike for bin workers in Birmingham is under way, as rubbish continues to pile up in the streets. The action officially started at 06:00 GMT on Tuesday, however, collectors ...

Drawing on inside information, conversations with bin workers, unions and council sources, this is my take on what is happening and why. On the face of it, the industrial dispute unfolding is ...

And it's based on one of the all-time classic time-killing activities: doodling. Quick, Draw!, which is just one of the features in Google's new A.I. Experiments initiative, gives players a ...

John Feng is Newsweek's contributing editor for Asia based in Taichung, Taiwan. His focus is on East Asian politics. He has covered foreign policy and defense matters, especially in relation to U ...