'Thriving' Facebook sees big gains on mobile

The world's largest social network continues its march of domination as it signs up advertisers eager to reach its vast mobile audience. Facebook and Apple's offices are separated by just 15 miles of highway, a 22-minute drive. But they might as well be worlds apart. Mark Zuckerberg is pushing...

The Best Places to Watch the Super Bowl in Denver

Courtesy Visit Denver by Megan Barber  A local's guide to the biggest game of the year.        Listen up, Denver fans: Peyton Manning and the Broncos have clawed and fought their way to Super Bowl 50, and all the excitement happens on February 7. If you can't...

Review of the InterContinental Hong Kong

Wow. Is all you can say when you walk into the huge living room complete with grand piano and double-height, floor-to-ceiling windows. And through the windows you can spy the room’s private, infinity-edge pool against the 180-degree uninterrupted backdrop of Hong Kong’s famous city skyline. The bathroom...

The Killers of Swaziland

Some fifteen years ago in this African kingdom, two serial killers were hard at work. Just one of them was human. I. The Sad Man IN MID-MARCH OF 2001, twenty-six-year-old Samantha Kgasi-Ngobese disappeared. She had planned to travel to Mbabane, the capital of Swaziland, a kingdom of a million...

The female body Shape-shifting

The why and wherefore of women’s curves Evolutionary curve Curvology: The Origins and Power of Female Body Shape. By David Bainbridge.Granta; 227 pages; £14.99. TABLOID newspapers take a prurient interest in women who flaunt their curves. The role of the media, and other cultural forces,...

David Bowie’s style legacy: ‘He stole ideas from everywhere’

David Bowie on stage as the Thin White Duke From Aladdin Sane’s jumpsuit to the Thin White Duke’s suits, Bowie’s distinctive outfits have influenced designers from Jean Paul Gaultier to Hedi Slimane    In 2012, I visited the V&A’s costume preservation department to see the preparations...

Five ways to wear... a check shirt - in pictures

A check shirt (or plaid, depending on which side of the pond you are from) fills a wardrobe void. It is practical enough to be classed as workwear and cool enough to have serious style credentials (see Kurt Cobain’s grunge legacy). American brand Rails specialises in the perfect check shirt (£145,...

Simple blood test could detect cancers early

Genomics company Illumina is developing a technology that could spot cancer signs in healthy people from drops of blood. A blood test to catch cancers early is in development, backed by Bill Gates Imagine if a simple blood test could detect cancers in healthy people before any symptoms...

Woman, 20, killed herself fearing she would lose boyfriend to arranged marriage, inquest hears

'I love you… I’m doing this for you': Final words to boyfriend she believed would be forced into arranged marriage before she stepped in front of lorry an aspiring fashion designer who feared she would lose the love of her life to an arranged marriage stepped in front of a lorry, an inquest heard.  Suk...

Dream Suite: Four Seasons Mauritius Presidential Suite

The suite: This year's major Four Seasons Mauritius refurbishment saw the unveiling of a new-look presidential suite. It may not be the property's largest villa (that accolade goes to the two Royal Residences, which have secluded locations, five bedrooms apiece and sell at a similar price point),...

Apple stands defiant as PC market suffers steepest drop in history

The PC market suffered its worst ever decline of 10.6pc in 2015 Apple was one of two computer manufacturers to buck the slowing trend and increase its market share during 2015, as the PC market suffered its worst decline in history, falling 10.6 per cent from 2014.   The Californian company...