What really happened aboard the Mary Celeste? More than a century after her crew went missing, a scenario is emerging

It was on this day in 1789 that Founding Father Benjamin Franklin wrote what was probably his last great quote, a saying about the Constitution and life that became true about five months later.

Dame Sarah Mullally addresses

A new film stars Viola Davis as the leader of the Agojie, the all-woman army of the African kingdom of Dahomey

An introduction to George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying, the first modern classic title for our new Observer Book Group.

The 13th of November celebrates the first shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii in 1895. Of the many dishes that would subsequently emerge, one of the most famous was the Pineapple-Upside Down Cake...