Pink Tie Party gives platform for local DC designers

WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s the event that kicks off the National Cherry Blossom Festival. People attending the annual Pink Tie Party on Friday came donning their best pink and florals to enjoy this year’s theme, the “Art of Fashion.”

Fake rooms, props and a script to lure victims: inside an abandoned Cambodia scam centre

Sprawling compound, including mock-up banks and police offices, uncovered by Thai military during border clashes

Blind date: ‘He looked at me, 5ft, and said he was looking for someone around 5ft 6in’

Robin, 68, a retired property manager, meets Jacquie, 69, a retired secretary

The moment I knew: I was enchanted by her painting but we never spoke. I wouldn’t see her again for 55 years

In primary school, Larry Garner knew little about the classmate behind a mesmerising artwork of a ship. He often wondered about ‘galleon girl’

‘You cannot unsee it’: what happened next for this year’s Oscar documentary nominees?

Films about prison abuse, ovarian cancer, women’s rights in Iran and more have impressed the Academy, but what real-world impact have they had?

My cultural awakening: a 60s folk band helped me find my place as a person of colour in Britain

Dragged along by my dad to see Pentangle, I heard something ancient that kickstarted my obsession with this country’s folklore – an enchanted, subversive and strange version of a Britain where I could truly belong

Sarah Perry: ‘I’m monstrously judgmental. It’s like talking to the pope’

The author on failing at atheism, why she lost her place at Cambridge, and bringing back Hilary Mantel

Plymouth, Minnesota: The Midwestern Sublime

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The week around the world in 20 pictures

Crisis in the Middle East, Ramadan in Gaza, the Milano Cortina Winter Paralympics and Paris fashion week – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

Hooked by Asako Yuzuki review

A Tokyo high-flyer tries to befriend her favourite blogger in a novel that wears its aura of black comedy lightly, and its political statements more heavily

Week in wildlife: a wet macaque, four little pigs and a stowaway fox

This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world

My Mother's Best Advice: The Secret to Good Pastry is Cold Wrists

When I was growing up, she rarely dispensed advice. Instead, I watched her closely, holding on to her quiet wisdom