Big Picture

A new book collects the best of the world’s toilets – because even in an age of division, everyone needs somewhere to sit down

Forty years of news photos from the Reuters agency capture a world on fire – and makes a compelling case for the future of photojournalism

Mysterious, graceful and defiant, Cardinale transcended the male gaze and wrote her own legend

Just an hour across the water is a city with a completely different history and culture. But how much longer can it last?

El Salvador has become an absolutist police state. Part prison camp, part Bitcoin Beach, it’s the perfect place for Trump to send all the people he doesn’t want in America

A giant of 20th-century design had fallen into obscurity – but then it turned out he was still alive

Seventy years after his fatal crash, a pilgrimage to the place where an actor died and a legend was born

Tall and glamorous, Demulder did not seem meant for war zones. And then she made them her life’s work

When teacher Paz Errázuriz lost her job in Pinochet’s coup, she picked up a camera – and found a new way to resist

Social housing in the UK has a reputation for drabness. Other countries have done it far better – it’s time to learn from the ones who got it right

Seventy-five years ago, western troops went into Korea and the 20th century’s forgotten war began. The brutality and suffering cost five million lives – and achieved almost nothing

Hundreds of thousands of children face famine, betrayed by our leaders with their silence

A collection of images curated by the director tells the story of protest and resistance in Britain. But who wins and who loses is only part of the story

The photographer’s images of man’s ongoing mission to tame and commercialise the wild are a spectacle

Sometimes controversial, but never less than beautiful, the late Salgado leaves behind his images, and a legacy of conservation

The cemetery, opened by Napoleon, was unpopular at first. But then the VIPs came – followed by the ghosts

The elemental works of the Japanese ukiyo-e artist are celebrated in a new book and exhibition at the British Museum

Evidence and eyewitness testimony shows how Russia has maimed some Ukrainian PoWs. But other soldiers and civilians have simply disappeared from sight

Half a century ago, a humiliated America scrambled out of a losing war. But parallels with Ukraine show little has changed

The photographer’s images command attention – whether capturing the fiery passion of an activist rallying a crowd or the powerful, expressive gaze of a lone protester

An exhibition of artworks telling the terrifying story of MAGA and Trump’s second coming has made it on to the streets of London in poster form

Communities whose lives have been shaped and scarred by mining are now shaken by the prospects of a green transition

Under communism, Polish artists were given freedom to produce posters advertising Hollywood films in a way their makers never dreamed of

In Syria, villagers search under their homes for long-buried gold and jewels. But this is speculation in every sense of the word

For a golden period, the Tuscan hill town ruled the art world. Now its treasures are reassembled in a remarkable exhibition

It took Ernest Bevin and a fear of Soviet expansion to bring Nato to life. Not even the US’s nationalistic retreat from Europe will kill it off

A sumptuously illustrated book of interviews with the director reveals his extraordinary love of the monumental

In the 1990s, Britain fell out of love with its concrete masterpieces – but then it all changed

Photographer Simone Nanetti’s haunting images of Italy’s abandoned nightclubs

With his work for the fashion brand, the late photographer and art director Oliviero Toscani took the trangressive mainstream

Louis XIV built a Xanadu at Versailles – and sealed his family’s fate. But amid the extravagant luxury was thrilling innovation

The next battleground for the French president and Rassemblement National’s leader is the cyclone-hit, French-owned archipelago in the Indian Ocean